Customer Support Manager (Hybrid)
All of this together paints a worrying picture of internal culture, especially how it relates to what's expected of the Support function.
All of this together paints a worrying picture of internal culture, especially how it relates to what's expected of the Support function.
How good are you at plastering on a smile while a middle-aged white dude is screaming at you?
I mean, I certainly dreamt of going to school for 4-6 years and earning a technical degree and THEN WORKING FOR ANOTHER 4+ YEARS to make $25 an hour for a company that won't even deign to give me a title that reflects the level of work I'm doing. WHERE DO I SIGN UP.
The company has an informative Careers page and the job duties make sense overall, but I'm going to say Tread Carefully for this one.
Honestly, this job description is a mess. Repeated paragraphs and sections, overly business-speaky, and poorly edited and formatted.
See Finout's Senior Technical Support Engineer role for red flags so red they're bleeding into this job description, too.
This company and job has the dubious honor of spawning not one, but TWO new BJB entries. I bet you can guess which ones.
Genuinely one of the most diverse companies I've seen so far. And the rare case where a company claims diversity as a value and is clearly backing that up with their hiring. Cool!
The company sounds fine and they have a solid Careers page. However, based on the job description, it's not totally clear why this is a Director-level role, and some of the job duties don't fit with a Success role.
Seems great. Job description includes a lot of personality and both the JD and the Careers page are informative while showing a lot of positive culture signals.
I will say, "the ability to communicate effectively and persuasively is required" in a substance abuse disorder treatment environment made me pause (it sounds vaguely salesy, which is a little gross given the subject matter).
This is more of an IT Support role, although that's not clear from the title. Having worked for a similar company, the job description seems pretty straightforward for this kind of role.
The role seems pretty straightforward, and the company's Carreers page is pretty standard corporate fare. The main thing putting this in Tread Carefully is the lack of salary transparency.
I am reading these job duties, and y'all, "you will sit at the intersection of product, marketing and customer support," my ass. This role is three whole jobs. Does no one else work at this company?
Hey, this is exciting! I don't know if Vetcove read this Bad Job Bingo critique, but they've updated the title of this position to Vet Clinic Implementation Manager.
So...AI wrote this job description, and no one proofread / edited it? Cool.
Okay, for starters, none (save one) of the duties listed in this JD are Lead-level duties. They clearly want a discount Director/VP of Support. (And at $70k-$150k, we're talking a *real* discount.)
This, and the whole introductory paragraph, has some of the most flowery language to describe a middle manager role that I have ever read.
Genuinely, y'all, I don't think they know what Support is. I'm not being funny. I think someone is very confused. Or I am very confused. One of us is very confused.
If this is a global senior leadership position (as described in the JD), it really should be at the VP-level or higher. Otherwise, everything seems normal enough, although I'm not sure about the salary range – seems low for a position at this level that's also hybrid in New York.
Well-defined (and compensated) role and the company calls out in the JD how much they value their Success team. Obviously depends on how they actually treat the team, but it's nice to see.
I don't know if the hiring manager is an immature manager or what's happening here, but whoever wrote this job description does not have a good grasp of what makes a CX professional successful in their work. The only thing keeping this out of BINGO is that the salary is decent.
Given the work this role will be doing and how often they will be working with senior leadership, I think it probably should have a more senior title and a slightly higher salary range.