Vice President of Customer Experience at Toast (Greater Boston Area, MA)
Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love.
The customer journey is the complete sum of experiences that customers go through when interacting with Toast. As the VP of Customer Experience, you will drive cross-functional process improvement and analytics across the full experience of being a customer and internally represent the Voice of the Customer (VOC).
About this roll*:
- Lead the continual development, prioritization, tracking, and implementation of CX goals and strategy
- Lead cross functional teams through monitoring, reporting out, and influencing improvement of customer satisfaction (NPS, CSAT etc) and loyalty metrics (Referrals, Retention, etc.)
- The individual is responsible for working collaboratively with multiple teams across the business, to design and develop process improvements to the customer journey - with a specific focus on automating steps in the journey to improve the cx and free up employees to do value-added work
- Delivers own small-scale or medium-scale projects by working with a program management framework
- Internal and external thought leader on customer experience excellence
- Partner closely with teams throughout the organization to build a culture of data-driven insights into Toast’s customer base and to ensure that the customer’s voice and feedback is central to decision making and communications that will contribute to investment decisions across the company
- Lead the effort on research and input strategy, including leading to effort to acquire data (interviews, surveys etc), analyze feedback and share insights and recommendations with business unit executives and other leaders
- Apply data analytics to customer understanding and reporting including the development and improvement of customer personas, journey maps, and infographics
- Keep abreast of key industry trends, research and recommend best practices, KPIs and benchmarks
- Must have good commercial aptitude and the ability to work within a complex cross functional environment. This is a high profile role, regularly working with the leaders across the organization and will be highly visible within the business
Do you have the right ingredients*?
- 8+ years consulting, customer success, customer marketing or customer experience
- Experience successfully leading through influence
- Strong customer centric experience
- Highly analytical - ability to make strong financial business cases and priority decisions based on data
- Highly process oriented - ability to drive improvements in complex cross departmental processes
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and writing skills
- Enthusiastic about technology with demonstrated technical aptitude; experience at a technology company or relevant consultancy is ideal
- Strong project management skills and an ability to multitask without getting frazzled
- Love for teamwork and commitment to building a world-class, enterprise-class global customer experience together
Our Spread of Total Rewards
- Unlimited Vacation
- Sabbatical opportunity after five years
- Professional Development Reimbursement Program
- Commitment to Employee Wellness through resources such as a quarterly Wellness Stipend
- Various peer and company recognition programs
- 401(k) and matching
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage
- Mental Health Benefits
- Subsidized backup childcare
*Bread puns encouraged but not required
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We are Toasters
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success.
At Toast our employees are our secret ingredient. When they are powered to succeed, Toast succeeds.
The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse industries. We embrace and are excited by this diversity, believing that only through authenticity, inclusivity, high standards of respect and trust, and leading with humility will we be able to achieve our goals.
Baking inclusive principles into our company and diversity into our design provides equitable opportunities for all and enhances our ability to be first in class in all aspects of our industry.
Bready* to make a change? Apply today!
Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected]
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