Sesame

Marketing

CustomerExperienceManager

$125–240k San Francisco, California, United States; New York City, New York, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Customer Experience Manager at Sesame. Skills: build and lead our support function, customer empathy, customer advocate, support programs, customer insights. Lead customer support across hardware and software to deliver outstanding customer experiences. Build and execute a vision for best-in-class, scalable support in an era of AI, and set up KPIs and tooling to reach that north star”

What You'll Achieve.

deliver outstanding customer experiences; set up KPIs and tooling to reach that north star; drive product improvements

Industry & Context.

Marketing
Problems you'll solve

hands-on troubleshooting; triage incoming issues; prioritize fixes based on severity, user impact, and customer sentiment

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years of customer support experience, at least 2 years in a lead or management role, understanding of consumer product support best practices, Experience with support tools and ticketing systems (Zendesk, Intercom, or similar), Experience supporting consumer software products, Experience building knowledge bases, help centers, and self-service tools, Experience working with outsourced support vendors, Proven ability to build support processes from scratch while remaining deeply involved in hands-on customer interactions

Nice to Have

Experience supporting consumer hardware products, Experience with support analytics, reporting, and KPI development, Experience with warranty, returns, and repair workflows for consumer electronics, Experience supporting products on iOS and Android

What You'll Do.

Lead customer support across hardware and software to deliver outstanding customer experiences

Build and execute a vision for best-in-class

scalable support in an era of AI

and set up KPIs and tooling to reach that north star

Grow and mentor a team of support specialists with a culture rooted in customer empathy

Develop and implement support processes

and documentation that cover the full product experience

including software subscriptions

physical product returns

Partner with marketing to build a modern help center that is accessible across our platforms

Create opportunities for self-service support and scalable solutions

Partner with marketing

and QA teams to surface customer insights and drive product improvements

and escalate critical issues through hands-on troubleshooting and cross-team collaboration

Help triage incoming issues and work with teams to prioritize fixes based on severity

and customer sentiment

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with marketing to build a modern help center that is accessible across our platforms; Partner with marketing, engineering, product, and QA teams to surface customer insights and drive product improvements; Identify, document, and escalate critical issues through hands-on troubleshooting and cross-team collaboration; Help triage incoming issues and work with teams to prioritize fixes based on severity, user impact, and customer sentiment

Process & Methodology

Build and execute a vision for best-in-class, scalable support in an era of AI, and set up KPIs and tooling to reach that north star, Develop and implement support processes, workflows, and documentation that cover the full product experience, including software subscriptions, physical product returns, and more

Full Job Description

About Sesame Sesame believes in a future where computers are lifelike - with the ability to see, hear, and collaborate with us in ways that feel natural and human. With this vision, we're designing a new kind of computer, focused on making voice agents part of our daily lives. Our team brings together founders from Oculus and Ubiquity6, alongside proven leaders from Meta, Google, and Apple, with deep expertise spanning hardware and software. Join us in shaping a future where computers truly come alive. About the Role We’re looking for a Customer Experience Manager to build and lead our support function from the ground up. At Sesame, the customer experience when something goes wrong matters just as much as the product itself, and we want to raise the bar for what great support looks like in an era of AI. You’ll be the first person in, writing the playbook as you go: handling tickets yourself while simultaneously designing the systems, processes, and team that will scale. You’ll be close to the product, close to the customer, and joining at a time when you get to influence how we go to market with the right support programs in place. The right person for this role is equal parts operator and customer advocate. You bring deep experience supporting consumer products (hardware and/or software), a genuine obsession with customer empathy, and the conviction that support can be a brand differentiator. You're excited to define what best-in-class looks like for a premium product, and you have a real point of view on what great support means in a world where AI is changing the tools, the expectations, and the experience itself. Responsibilities: - Lead customer support across hardware and software to deliver outstanding customer experiences. - Build and execute a vision for best-in-class, scalable support in an era of AI, and set up KPIs and tooling to reach that north star. - Grow and mentor a team of support specialists with a culture rooted in customer empathy. - Develop an

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