Director of Member Experience
Hotel Engine is a high-growth, Denver-based tech company that is innovating the business travel industry with a free, private hotel booking management platform. With over 200,000 hotel properties globally, Hotel Engine offers up to 60% off publicly available hotel rates for small-to-medium businesses, large enterprises, and government travelers.
Serving industries like construction, transportation and logistics, oil and gas, retail, healthcare, and more, Hotel Engine has customized hotel reservation management solutions built for the control, transparency, billing, and support needs of organizations of any size and industry.
The Director of Member Experience will help develop and scale our inbound call center at Hotel Engine. This person will work closely with the operations, marketing, and technology teams to establish and grow our virtual engagement call center. This role will develop operating policies and procedures, optimize workflows, hire and develop the call center workforce, and develop training and quality programs in order to engage potential members in our digital therapeutic platform. This person will be a passionate innovator and builder, helping our team deliver world-class hotel booking support and customer service with every interaction.
Role and Responsibilities
Build a world class scalable Member Experience program
Monitor, report, and analyze quality and customer satisfaction survey metrics
Manages strategic direction and day to day operations of the call center.
Recommend, own, and drive performance improvement areas across the CS landscape
Creates a high performance engaged culture.
Identifies and implements initiatives to improve customer and associate satisfaction levels.
Maintains proper staffing levels.
Tracks trends, makes decisions based on organized information, and supports decisions with articulate written and verbal communications.
Utilizes data to drive results and prioritize improvements to become a world class department.
Ability to coach, motivate, inspire and develop team members and to create a positive work environment.
Focus on associate and leader development, including succession planning.
Plan, monitor and adjust performance and incentive plans to ensure performance goals are met.
Coordinate all messaging and material disseminated in the call center.
Ensures departmental compliance with contractual, regulatory, and corporate requirements, guidelines, including turnaround and reporting.
Develops policies and procedures to improve service delivery and interdepartmental processes to support work processes across department lines.
Requirements
Strong data-driven influencer and people manager who has a proven track record of scaling operations and customer service teams to get results quickly.
You are goal-driven and execute strategic decisions quickly and efficiently
You embrace challenges, value data-driven decision making and recognize the importance of responding quickly to market needs
Comfortable in a metric driven environment
You demonstrate creativity and flexibility, and you adapt and evolve your approaches to drive value.
Successful record of managing and building teams of at least 30+ employees
Experience in building Call/Contact Center programs from the ground up
You are passionate about change and user experience
BS/BA Degree in Business (or equivalent work experience)
7+ years total professional experience; at least five years of proven successful management and leadership
5+ years of managing customer support teams
3+ years of experience with internet, ecommerce, or online travel agencies
Experience at start-ups or rapidly growing companies is a plus
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance
- Free 'Employee Only' healthcare coverage
- 401k plan
- Unlimited vacation
- Paid holidays, sick time, and volunteer opportunities
- Discounted hotel rates
- Paid parental leave
- Company-sponsored social events and happy hours