ABOUT HOPPER

At Hopper, we’re on a mission to build the most customer-centric travel company on earth. We are leveraging the power that comes from combining massive amounts of data and machine learning to build the world’s fastest-growing mobile first travel marketplace -- one that enables our customers to save money and travel better.

Hopper’s goal is to reduce traveler anxiety throughout all stages of the trip buying and taking process. By creating a transparent travel marketplace and unique, data-driven financial technology products focused on providing peace-of-mind, Hopper adds value along each step of the customer’s journey.

Hopper has launched several bespoke fintech products that leverage our immense first and third-party data to create products and value that do not exist elsewhere - including Refundable and Flexible Tickets and Price Freeze. Thanks to these offerings, Hopper’s revenue growth is up 112% despite the travel slowdown due to COVID-19.

With over $250M CAD in funding from leading investors in both Canada and the US, Hopper is primed to continue its acceleration to becoming the world’s fastest-growing end-to-end customer-centric travel offering.

Recognized as one of the world’s most innovative companies by Fast Company three years in a row, Hopper has been downloaded over 50 million times and sees over 1 million new installs per month. The app has received high praise in the form of mobile accolades such as the Webby Award for Best Travel App of 2019. 

Come take off with us!

THE ROLE

The role of Workforce Management is a critical component to the success of the customer service function, notably driving excellent customer experience and business profitability via intelligent staffing decisions for multiple programs and projects. 

We’re looking for a data-savvy Workforce Management leader to join the Customer Service Operations team responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining the supporting function of Customer Service (Systems, Quality, Learning and Development, Workforce Management). 

This lead will be responsible for building the Workforce Management function from the ground up and be the owner of overall global WFM strategy, support and execution across multiple lines of business. This includes ownership of Forecasting, Scheduling, and Intra-Day Management. 

Core Responsibilities:

• Maintain a working knowledge of the entire contact center operation for all lines of business 
• Drive standardizations, optimal usage and adoptions of WFM tools (Assembled, Fin, Kustomer) globally. This includes finding and implementing tools, best practices in tool usage, set-up and configuration 
• Maintain short term and long term staffing forecasts. Interact and consult with Talent and Learning and Development on matters of talent acquisition, training, hiring and attrition 
• Provide inputs (data analysis, reporting, productivity, budget forecasts) to operational leadership to make sound decisions regarding structuring topics: budgeting, organization and scheduling
• Build and maintain a reliable and detailed forecast capacity model for live chat, email and phone support
• Analyze program metrics and staffing on a consistent basis in order to maximize and make recommendations for efficiency on a global level for all operations across multiple lines of business 
• Build different scenarios for expected volume with consideration for utilization, efficiency and productivity
• Factor changes in capacity planning models and evaluate the real-world impact of addition/reduction of FTE requirements
• Work with key stakeholders across a fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Become known as the "go to" person for all areas of workforce management and optimization 
• Experiment: we are an adventurous bunch so expect that anything and everything can change!

A perfect candidate has:

• Experience in contact center business in a leadership position
• Material experience in staffing forecasting, scheduling and workforce planning for omnichannel contact centers (chat, email, voice) 
• Exposure to scripting with Pandas, R, SAS or other data preparation and analysis tools
• Experience with relational databases and SQL
• Proficiency in Tableau (or similar tools like Qlikview or Looker)
• Proven ability to communicate complex technical work to a non-technical audience in writing and in presentation
• Capacity to work in a fast pacing environment with last minute adaptations & regular changes 
• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills
• Enthusiasm and curiosity for conducting research and answering hard questions with data

BENEFITS:

• Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and stock options

• Dynamic and entrepreneurial team where pushing limits is everyday business

• 100% employer paid medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance plans

• Access to a 401k (US) or Retirement Savings Plan (Canada)

OFFERING REMOTE WORK FROM THE FOLLOWING STATES:

- California

- Connecticut

- Florida

- Georgia

- Illinois

- Maine

- Massachusetts

- Missouri

- New Jersey

- Nevada

- New York

- Oregon

- Rhode Island

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