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Head of Customer Service & Technical Support

Description

Our Mission

Micromart is redefining convenience - turning any location into a retail opportunity with our Smart Store platform. By combining hardware, software, and data, we’re building a delightful unattended shopping experience for consumers and making operating an unattended Smart Store easy for entrepreneurs. 

Our Values

We’re driven by ambitious, mission-focused thinking, a deep commitment to earning customer trust, a craftsmanship mindset that prioritizes simplicity and quality, and a culture of shared growth where we support each other and celebrate wins together.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Head of Customer Service and Technical Support to build, elevate, and scale a world-class support organization to support our B2B customer base (owner/operators, SMBs).

Your mission is to transform every service interaction, whether a question, a failure, or a frustration, into trust-building moments that strengthens loyalty and empowers our customers to run their businesses with confidence.

You will own the full customer support experience across chat, email, and phone, leading a 24/7 support team while partnering with engineering, product, and operations to rapidly resolve issues and continuously improve the customer journey.

Key Responsibilities

Customer Service Leadership

  • Build and manage a high-performing customer service and technical support team.
  • Review tickets for quality, tone, accuracy, and timeliness.
  • Coach, mentor, and train support specialists.
  • Implement and manage best-in-class tools and processes
  • Ensure customers consistently receive fast, empathetic, accurate service across all channels (chat, email, phone)
  • Proactive outreach to customers about issues that may be business impacting
  • Maintain high standards for NPS, CSAT, first response time, resolution time, automation rate, and overall support cost
  • Structure and refine SLAs, escalation paths, and service policies to deliver consistent, high-quality outcomes.

AI-First, Automation-Forward Support

  • Champion AI and automation tools to reduce manual ticket volume, improve response speed while maintaining a high quality of response with 24/7 availability
  • Development and continuous improvement of:
  • Helpdesk articles
  • Training videos
  • Macros and snippets
  • AI Enabled Agents
  • Internal SOPs and troubleshooting guides

Continuous Improvement

  • Become a subject-matter expert in our Smart Store hardware and Platform software
  • Review support trends and customer requests to provide actionable insights to engineering, product and operations teams to prevent repeat issues and improve the customer experience. 
  • Escalate issues to internal stakeholders and ensure timely resolution and follow up with customers. 
  • Balance customer needs with business needs to create scalable, and sustainable policies and processes to scale high quality support across all channels.

Crisis & Escalation Management

  • Act as the point of leadership during major outages or high-impact customer issues.
  • Set up clear escalation protocols for the team, executives, and customers.
  • Remain composed under pressure and communicate promptly, accurately, and transparently.

Qualifications

Soft Skills & Mindset

  • High empathy - especially toward entrepreneurs and small-business operators.
  • Calm under pressure - able to handle emotionally charged conversations with confidence and clarity.
  • Relentlessly resourceful - creative problem-solver who provides practical workarounds and keeps customers moving.
  • Fast-thinking, relationship-driven, and relentlessly committed to customer success.
  • High ownership and agency - takes extreme responsibility and accountability for plans, actions and deliverables

Operational & Leadership Strengths

  • 5+ years in customer support or technical support, with at least 2 years leading teams.
  • Proven ability to run a multi-channel 24/7 support operation.
  • Expert in HubSpot, Intercom, Zendesk, or similar support platforms.
  • Strong program & project management skills with a track record of improving SLAs and processes.
  • Experience designing escalation frameworks and incident-management playbooks.
  • Experience working with or managing support teams overseas, either directly or through a BPO partner.

Technical & Product Skills

  • Familiarity and ongoing curiosity in exploring best-in class AI tools for customer service 
  • Experience supporting connected devices, SaaS, or hardware-plus-software products.
  • Proficiency with computer and networking hardware - able to perform basic troubleshooting of routers, computers, monitors
  • BONUS: You have been or have served small business owner/operators
  • BONUS: Have worked in vending, micro-markets, CPG, retail, or food service environments

What We Offer

  • Competitive salary + equity package
  • Health, dental, and vision benefits (for employees and dependents)
  • Free meals at the office through KitchenMate
  • Monthly gym-membership stipend
  • Remote flexibility with access to our Toronto office
  • Downtown office location next to Union Station with gym, pickleball court, and much more.

Micromart is an equal-opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.

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