Customer Support Team Lead

About the opportunity

Join our Global Operations Team as a Customer Support Team Lead in Melbourne to make a real impact every day. We say that because we know that every conversation we have, every code line we write and every interface we design is another opportunity for us to enrich our customers’ experiences.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Software Support, you'll help us drive engagement, excellence, and a focus on building relationships with our customers and colleagues, whilst meeting and exceeding service levels agreements for the resolution of support tickets. You'll also lead a team of Software Support professionals to meet the needs of our customers on software related enquiries. 

Some of the other responsibilities include:

• Manage a small offshore & regional team of customer support advisors in the delivery of software customer service   

• Collaborate with engineering peers to provide customer resolutions within agreed SLAs, advocating customer needs to effectively prioritise support ticket resolution  
• Partner with leadership and commercial teams to identify and plan essential work in the context of software support  
• Ensure that the team adheres to regional policies within software support for Xplor products  
• Contribute to frameworks and internal resources to support the resolution of technical issues within your team  
• Periodically review software support log(s); track performance and identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities for improvement  
• Proactively engage and upskill yourself in new iterations of the software along with your team  
• Find new ways to reduce the average ticket turnaround time and improve SLAs  
• Optimise, standardise, and manage Support metrics across all channels (call centre, online chat, email) to ensure customer satisfaction, and report statistical performance levels 

For this position, we offer a hybrid and flexible working model, where you will spend 2-3 days per week in the office and the rest working from home.

What would make me a good candidate?

• Strong leadership experience in a customer-facing role where you have built and inspired a team of high-performing individuals   
• Experience of working with and managing virtual teams in a matrix environment  
• Experience in a SAAS, or similar, business environment, preferable in a customer-facing role
• Strong proficiency in SQL, Microsoft Excel and data management  
• Must be an Australian citizen or have eligibility and documentation demonstrating your right to work in Australia
• You bring excellent customer services skills, demonstrated daily by working quickly and accurately to resolve customers queries
• Able to work within a global organisation and accommodate working hours to support this
• You show awareness of your own strengths and areas for growth, and a desire to develop and apply new skills

At Xplor, we believe that the best innovation and ideas happen at the intersection of differences - people of different cultures, generations, disciplines, and lived experiences. So even if you think you don’t quite tick all the boxes, we still encourage you to apply.

Life at Xplor

You’ll be part of a global network of talented colleagues who support your success. We look for commonalities and shared passions and give people the tools they need to deliver great work and grow at speed.

Some of our perks and benefits:

• 12 weeks Gender Neutral Paid Parental Leave for both primary and secondary carer
• #GiveBackDays/Commitment to social impact – 3 extra days off to volunteer and give back to your local community
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning, plus regular career and growth conversations with your leader, as part of Xplor GPS
• Ongoing dedication to Diversity & Inclusion initiatives such as D&I Council, Global Mentorship Program
• Access to free mental health support
• Flexible working arrangements

Ready to apply? 

To start your application, please submit your resume and we’ll be in touch as soon as we can. Please include the word "moonshot" at the top of your message to the Hiring Manager so that we know you took the time to read our job ad.  

We understand that diverse candidates have diverse needs. We welcome you to inform us of any additional needs related to completing your job application or participating in the interview process, via [email protected]. 

We understand that diverse candidates have diverse needs. We welcome you to inform us of any additional needs related to completing your job application or participating in the interview process, via [email protected]. 

More about us 

We're the first global platform combining SaaS with embedded payments, and tools to help businesses grow and succeed. We offer software solutions in fast-growing ‘everyday life’ verticals: Education, Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global, cloud-based payments processing platform. Xplor Technologies serves over 106,000 customers that processed over $37 billion in payments, operating across 20 markets in 2023.

Good to know

To be considered for employment, you must be legally authorised to work in the location (country) you're applying for. Xplor does not sponsor visas, either at the time of hire or at any later time. 

We kindly ask you to apply through our careers portal or external job boards only. Please don't send your application via email. 

To learn more about us and our products, please visit www.xplortechnologies.com/careers. 

We also invite you to check out our Candidate FAQs for more information about our recruitment process www.xplortechnologies.com/recruitment-faqs.

Please note that we do not exclusively rely on artificial intelligence (AI) when making hiring, promotion or any other employment decisions. We don’t have any AI tools in place that are capable of making these kinds of hiring decisions for us.

Xplor is dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.

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