CS Manager
Key Skills
Job Description
Location: Fully Remote
Reports To: Head of Customer Service
Employment Type: Freelance (Contract)
About the Role
Due to rapid growth in our DIY Art Club market, we are looking for a proactive and experienced Customer Service Team Manager to take ownership of day-to-day support operations for a dedicated market or functional area. In this role, you will be the core operational contact point for your team, driving coverage, quality standards, agent performance, and team development while resolving escalations internally.
Core Responsibilities
Operations & Coverage: Manage rostering, shift coverage, and absence tracking for your designated market.
Team Leadership & Growth: Conduct weekly 1:1s for new joiners, monthly 1:1s for tenured staff, and lead onboarding for new team members.
Performance & Quality Control: Perform regular quality checks on agent interactions and maintain performance standards across the team.
Escalation Management: Serve as the primary escalation point, resolving complex customer issues within the team rather than passing them upward.
Customer Satisfaction: Monitor and drive key performance metrics including response time, CSAT, and Trustpilot ratings for your market.
Hiring & Placement: Participate in interviewing candidates and place agents across Level 1 and Level 2 tiers.
Role Requirements
Experience: 2+ years in customer service, with at least 1 year in a team lead, supervisor, QA, or senior agent capacity.
Helpdesk Expertise: Hands-on proficiency with Gorgias or a comparable ticket/helpdesk platform.
E-Commerce Workflows: Familiarity with Shopify order management, refund processing, and fulfillment workflows.
Communication Skills: Exceptional written English communication skills, with the ability to maintain a warm, professional, and on-brand tone under pressure.
Data & Reporting: Comfortable working with spreadsheets, tracking key support metrics, and evaluating operational trends over time.
Remote Leadership: Proven ability to work independently, make decisive operational choices, and lead a team effectively in a remote environment.
Problem Solving: A calm, solutions-oriented mindset when addressing escalations or unexpected challenges.
Nice to Have
Experience working with e-commerce brands.
Exposure to lightweight automation and workflow integration tools (e.g., Zapier, Google Apps Script).
Prior experience supporting multi-brand or multi-channel customer service operations.
How to Apply
If you are a proactive leader with a passion for customer service excellence, I would love to hear from you! Please send your CV to [email protected] along with a short introduction explaining why you would be a great fit for this role.
Core Responsibilities
The Customer Service Manager will oversee daily support operations, including rostering, team performance, and quality standards. They will also act as the primary escalation point and lead team development through onboarding and regular performance reviews.
Requirements
Candidates must have at least 2 years of customer service experience, including 1 year in a leadership or QA capacity. Proficiency with helpdesk platforms like Gorgias and familiarity with Shopify e-commerce workflows are required.
About HyperGrowth Recruitment
Industry: Staffing and Recruiting
Company size: 2-10 employees
HyperGrowth Recruitment are a dedicated search firm in the e-commerce and consumer goods scale-up space. Working directly with Founders & Senior Leadership Teams, focused on a retained partnership model to attract the right talent for our partners. We have a holistic approach to best match a person to their next employer. We offer a ‘real world’ service that goes deeper than corporate stereotypes. We understand our customers almost as much as they know themselves, so much so that we have a waiting list for new business relationships. This gives us the time to fully understand a company, it’s ethos and direction before partnering. We mix speed, accuracy and deep market expertise which has enabled a 99% success rate on searches we take on. We’ve truly been there and done it. With hands on experience across start ups at early series funding, PE backed SMEs all the way through to companies pre and post IPO. We get the stresses of hiring accurately. HyperGrowth Recruitment, unlocking your business potential.