Director, Member Care

Come help us reimagine and transform the way customer service happens at Cricut! 

Cricut’s innovative cutting machines and products have forever changed the way people think about crafting, designing, and making. But the innovation doesn’t stop there. 

We are reimagining and transforming every customer touchpoint, focused on ensuring that when our customers run into roadblocks in their creative journey, it’s our pleasure to find ways to assist them so they can get back on track as soon as possible.

Cricut is searching for an inspiring, collaborative, and experienced Contact Center Director to lead our Contact Center in South Jordan, Utah. This position is responsible for the strategic execution of all local and outsourced/offshore (BPO) Contact Center Operations. This individual will be responsible for continuously improving customer satisfaction and providing leadership to the Member Care Center, Technical Support staff. Additionally, this role is responsible for driving and delivering key support metrics, identifying and implementing best practices and implementing methodologies, processes and systems that increase efficiencies, improve productivity, and ensure the delivery of unsurpassed customer experience. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Leadership and Team Development: Lead and manage the contact center by coaching, mentoring, and developing team members to foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement. Oversee employee hiring, training, performance appraisals, and conflict resolution to ensure a motivated, skilled workforce. Ensure our member care team stays on top of emerging service trends and technologies.

• Technical Expertise and Support Oversight: Utilize your technical background and understanding of hardware and software businesses and products to manage complex customer issues, serving (where needed) as an escalation point. This will often involve direct communication with the customer. You will also drive collaboration with product teams to document and address recurring technical problems.

• Quality Assurance and Performance Monitoring: Ensure the development and execution of training programs and customer care quality assurance processes. Oversee auditing, coaching, and performance measurement initiatives to maintain high service standards and improve customer experiences. Utilize tools such as Net Promoter Score (NPS) and other tools to gather insights and drive improvements in service quality, reporting regularly to executives and leadership team on the measurable business impact of our efforts.

• Innovation and Data-Driven Decision Making: Develop systems and tools to monitor key performance indicators and leverage data for decision-making. Research emerging service trends and technologies to inform strategic improvements and automate routine tasks.

• Strong Business Leadership, Financial Management and Strategic Planning: Utilize your strong business acumen and experience to continually understand and adapt to Cricut’s overall worldwide business needs, proving and conveying measurable business value from the investments made to Customer Care. Manage departmental budgets by forecasting requirements and contributing to annual budget development to meet financial objectives.

• Operational Integration and Collaboration: Consistently find ways to integrate the Member Care team into company operations by partnering with internal teams (product management, engineering, sales, etc.) to enhance alignment and support for our members. Your objective is to find ways that are so valuable for product teams to work with you that they will want to partner with Member Care. Through your leadership style, empathy, and executive presence, you will influence teams across the company, promoting collaborative efforts to enhance operational success. Facilitate communication and collaboration across departments to ensure seamless implementation of new technologies and processes.

• A minimum of a Bachelors’ degree is preferred, or equivalent work experience. Proven personnel leadership and financial and business acumen including fiscal management and forecasting is required.
• 10+ years of customer care, customer service, call center operations experience with strong preference given to those with experience in supporting consumer electronics products and software applications across an expanding global footprint
• 10+ years of experience in a Leadership/people management role preferred. Strong preferences given to empathetic leaders who excel in results-oriented coaching and motivation, setting a high standard for performance and showing strong results in helping employees reach those objectives.
• Strong customer service, interpersonal and multi-tasking skills 
• Hands-on experience managing call center operations and teams with particular attention to managing highly technical operations as well as technical support agents, and leading onshore/offshore BPO teams as well.
• Knowledge and operation of phone systems, quality monitoring/recording systems and other contact center technologies is required.
• Exceptional written, verbal, organizational, problem solving, phone and video communication skills required, utilizing modern and traditional technology tools such as Zoom and Teams.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) \
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NOTE: It is required that this individual works in-office in South Jordan, Utah (in Salt Lake City) ahering to our current or future hybrid work schedule (currently Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays in office).

What to Do Next: 

To receive priority consideration for this role, please adhere to the following:

• Please attach your resume including links to your portfolio where applicable. If you want to show your super powers in other ways – include that information too!
• Please ensure your resume clearly indicates where you currently live. It is very helpful to us if you manually enter your city/state in the application when applying.
• If you live outside of the Salt Lake City area, clearly indicate through the screening question or in your cover letter or resume that you will immediately relocate to Salt Lake City if offered this position. 
• Including your valid LinkedIn profile URL in the application fields is also greatly appreciated!
• Candidates who currently reside outside of the United States, are not willing to immediately relocate to and work in our Salt Lake City offices 3-5 work days each week, or who are working on a visa which requires us to hire you through a 3rd party company will not be considered. 
• Candidates whose application materials clearly show the above required qualifications, location and in-office requirements as well as one or more of the preferred (good to have) skills will be given priority consideration compared to those whose application materials are difficult to read, missing information or whose answers are vague, unclear or confusing.  

You can be sure that Cricut® is an employer who values individuality, equality and diversity, so tell us what you’re all about. If you are a Maker or a DIY enthusiast, whether you think you are a good one or not, we would love to hear about it when you send us your information!

At Cricut®, we celebrate inclusion and diversity. Cricut is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions based on merit. Cricut prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual identity, gender identity, marital status, veteran status, nationality, citizenship, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, or any other unlawful consideration. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Cricut participates in E-Verify.

Candidates who currently reside outside of the United States, are not willing to immediately relocate to and work in our Salt Lake City offices 3-5 work days each week, or who are working on a visa which requires us to hire you through a 3rd party company will not be considered. To prioritize those candidates who took the time to apply correctly, we reserve the right to choose not to notify or inform candidates who apply and who are outside of these criteria if they are being considered or not.

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