
Manager, Merchant Support
Loop
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $74,800 - $112,200 per year
About the role
- Lead and develop the Merchant Support team, setting clear performance expectations and accountability standards.
- Foster a high-performance, inclusive team culture by setting clear expectations, modeling company values, promoting open communication and accountability, and investing in team development and engagement.
- Define, track, and evolve KPIs across SLA, CSAT, quality, and efficiency.
- Drive workforce planning, hiring strategy, and coverage planning.
- Establish scalable processes that allow the team to grow efficiently while maintaining high-quality merchant experiences.
- Own the end-to-end escalation framework, ensuring high-impact merchant issues are resolved quickly and transparently.
- Partner closely with Product and Engineering to influence sprint planning and roadmap prioritization.
- Enforce and build on prioritization frameworks grounded in merchant impact.
- Represent the voice of the merchant in cross-functional planning discussions.
- Serve as the escalation point for your team members with merchants when necessary.
- Oversee queue strategy, volume forecasting, and workflow optimization within Front, our support email management tool.
- Lead the evolution of AI tooling adoption and automation within Support.
- Ensure ongoing Help Center maintenance in partnership with Product Marketing as the product evolves.
- Maintain oversight of feature flags, configuration changes, carrier overrides, and operational edge cases.
- Build and maintain structured KPI tracking systems and documentation within Google Workspace.
- Partner with Accounts and Onboarding leadership to align on shared merchant outcomes and improve how Loop supports merchants at scale.
- Surface recurring friction points and drive systemic improvements with Product and Engineering teams.
- Monitor merchant feedback channels, including app store reviews, and translate insights into action.
Requirements
- 5+ years in SaaS support, customer operations, or merchant-facing roles.
- 3+ years of people management experience, ideally leading managers or senior ICs.
- Proven experience in influencing Product and Engineering prioritization.
- Strong understanding of escalation management and structured prioritization frameworks.
- Experience with: Front or similar help desk platforms, Salesforce or similar CRM systems, JIRA or equivalent ticketing/project management tools, and Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Slides).
- Demonstrated ability to build reporting systems and operational dashboards.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strategic thinker who can also operate tactically when needed.
- Experience scaling teams in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision insurance
- flexible PTO
- company holidays
- sick & safe leave
- parental leave
- 401k
- monthly wellness benefit
- home workstation benefit
- phone/internet benefit
- equity
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
KPI trackingescalation managementreporting systemsoperational dashboardsworkforce planninghiring strategyworkflow optimizationAI tooling adoptionautomation
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationstrategic thinkingteam developmentaccountabilityinclusivityproblem-solvingcollaboration