Customer Support Lead

Customer Support Lead

Full-Time 50000 - 65000 £ / year (est.) No working from home possible
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At a Glance

  • Tasks: Deliver frontline support via live chat, phone, and email while managing SLAs.
  • Company: Join a dynamic team in London focused on customer satisfaction and AI integration.
  • Benefits: Enjoy a hybrid work model and the opportunity to lead a growing support function.
  • Other info: The position requires handling escalations and improving AI resolution rates.
  • Why this job: This role offers the chance to shape processes and improve customer experience directly.
  • Qualifications: Proven experience in leading a support function with a metrics-driven approach is essential.

The predicted salary is between 50000 - 65000 £ per year.

Location: London, Hybrid

What You’ll Do

  • Deliver frontline volume. In the queues across live chat, phone and email, resolving within SLAs.
  • SLA delivery. Design & run the operation that delivers a minutes first response, hours time-to-close, and market-leading CSAT.
  • AI delivery. Own containment, deflection and AI resolution rates.
  • Own the knowledge base. Keep the help centre accurate and current against every product release, with a defined refresh cadence for new features, so it both reduces inbound volume and improves AI resolution.
  • Lead escalations with composure. When a top-tier customer is blocked and the query has been escalated, you’ll be the deescalation point to handle the problem.
  • Close the product feedback loop. Surface recurring themes and insights to the product team so we reduce tickets per workflow over time, not simply resolve them faster.

This Role Is a Great Fit If…

  • You’ve led a support function before and turned ad-hoc firefighting into clear processes, ownership and routing.
  • You’re genuinely metrics-driven - you can look at a declining CSAT line, diagnose why, and credibly commit to SLAs.
  • You’re a player-coach who's happy in the inbox today and helping other members of the team.
  • You think deliberately about the human/AI mix and where AI should be deployed and not deployed.
  • You’re unflappable under pressure and instinctively protect the experience for accounts when something breaks.

This Role Is Not a Great Fit If…

  • You want to only respond to tickets and aren’t interested in owning processes, routing or the underlying numbers.
  • You see AI as something for “later” or as a threat, rather than a core lever you’d actively own.
  • You need a large, settled team and mature tooling to be effective - this starts lean and scrappy, with plenty still to build.
  • You freeze when a top customer escalates loudly instead of stepping toward the problem.

Customer Support Lead employer: Samaipata

Located in London, this company prioritises customer satisfaction and innovative AI solutions. The team values metrics-driven leadership and offers a hybrid working environment, making it an exciting place for growth and impact.

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Contact Details:

Samaipata Recruitment Team

We think you need these skills to ace Customer Support Lead

Customer Support Management
SLA Management
AI Resolution Strategies
Knowledge Base Management
De-escalation Techniques
Metrics Analysis
Process Improvement