Customer Service Lead

About Karya:

Why was Karya on the cover of the Time Magazine , highlighted by Satya Nadella , and chosen by Google as its partner for Project Vaani? 

In part, because Karya is on a mission to provide AI enabled earning and learning opportunities to economically underserved communities, thereby building a pathway out of poverty for them. Karya achieves this while also delivering high quality, timely, and price competitive data to its clients.

Karya’s workers make at least 20 times the Indian minimum wage and through our one-of-a-kind digital work platform, we have delivered over 40 million digital tasks and are poised to positively impact over 100 thousand workers by the end of the year. In the coming years, our goal is to rapidly scale our impact by bringing economic opportunities to millions of underserved users in India.

About the Role

The Customer Service Lead will oversee Karya’s centralized CS function, managing a multilingual team of 10–12 representatives. This role ensures that worker queries are resolved quickly, transparently, and with dignity, while building systems that make customer service a strategic pillar of Karya’s operations.

Key Responsibilities

1. Recruit, train, and manage a team of multilingual CSRs, while developing SOPs, scripts, and training materials that ensure consistent worker interactions.
2. Monitor team performance, coach for empathy and accuracy, and implement shift systems and workload management so that CSRs are always available without being overburdened. 
3. Oversee day-to-day service delivery, ensuring that at least 60% of queries are resolved automatically via the WhatsApp chatbot and 80% at the CSR level.
4. Manage the escalation pipeline so that no more than 15% of queries require Ops, Tech, or Finance intervention, while tracking resolution times to ensure SLAs are met.
5. Conduct regular audits of WhatsApp and call interactions to maintain high standards of accuracy and dignity. 
6. Ensure all worker interactions comply with national, international, and company-level policies on privacy and data protection, while maintaining feedback loops with Ops and QA for continuous improvement.
7. Analyze query data to identify recurring issues, systemic bottlenecks, and product gaps. Share insights with Ops, Tech, Learning, and Design teams to improve worker experience, while maintaining dashboards and reporting systems that give leadership visibility into trends. 
8. Partner with the M&E team to serve as the voice of the worker inside Karya, advocating for clarity, fairness, and dignity across all touchpoints. 
9. Work with Design and Learning teams to test nudges such as videos and guides, monitor worker satisfaction, and update SOPs and processes in line with industry best practices. 

Profile & Skills

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 4–8 years in CS management, BPO leadership, or social enterprise support required, preference for those who have worked with finance or fin-tech apps.
• Experience managing multilingual or distributed teams is required.
• Strong leadership, process design, and analytical skills.
• Proficient with WhatsApp-based systems, ticketing tools, and dashboards.
• Proficient in tools such as JIRA, Notion, Slack and G-Suite. 
• Worker-first mindset: empathetic, process-driven, and collaborative.
• Process-driven with high attention to detail.
• Adaptive and collaborative across multiple functions.
• Curious about best practices in CS and eager to implement them.
• Fluency in English is required. 

What We Offer

• Flexible leave and vacation policy
• Hybrid work options
• Insurance as per industry standards
• Access to leaders in technology and social impact sectors
• A chance to contribute meaningfully to AI, digital equity, and rural development

Karya celebrates diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered without regard to race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected status.

If you need accommodations to apply, please contact us at [email protected]