Customer Service Team Lead

At Keen, we don't just deliver services we embed ourselves into the heart of our clients' businesses. From digital marketing and creative to customer experience, we craft bold, high-performance digital experiences for global brands.

Keen helps some of the most exciting U.S. and international brands scale smarter by embedding expert teams that drive results across marketing, creative, customer experience, and sales.

We're not a legacy BPO. We're a partner in growth and that's where you come in.

We're hiring a Customer Service Team Leader to lead and develop a high-performing customer service team supporting a global client.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who is confident managing people, performance, client relationships, and day-to-day operational priorities. You'll use performance data to coach your team, identify gaps, manage escalations, and drive continuous improvement in a fast-paced environment.

• →Lead, coach, and develop a team of Customer Service Agents
• →Monitor and improve team performance, focusing on FCR, CSAT, QA, productivity, and other key metrics
• →Conduct regular 1:1s, QA reviews, coaching sessions, and performance conversations
• →Identify whether performance gaps are related to skill or will and determine the appropriate action
• →Manage escalations and support agents with complex customer situations
• →Build and maintain strong relationships with clients and key stakeholders
• →Receive and action client feedback while balancing client and operational requirements
• →Track performance data and identify trends, gaps, and opportunities for improvement
• →Manage daily priorities, queue health, shift coverage, and team accountability
• →Collaborate with Operations, QA, Training, and Workforce Management
• →Ensure processes and client requirements are consistently followed
• →Adapt quickly to changing client requirements and operational priorities

• 3–5+ years in customer service, customer experience, or operations, including 1–2+ years in a leadership role
• Strong experience in people and performance management
• Strong coaching and development skills, with an understanding of different learning styles
• Able to identify whether performance issues require coaching, training, support, or performance management
• Confident handling difficult conversations and holding team members accountable
• Comfortable interpreting performance data and using insights to drive coaching and team performance
• Strong understanding of FCR, CSAT, QA, and other customer experience metrics
• Excellent client relationship and stakeholder management skills
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work professionally with global and U.S.-facing clients
• Strong systems aptitude and experience using CRM or customer service platforms such as Zendesk, Salesforce, or similar
• Highly adaptable and comfortable working in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills, with the ability to make decisions based on urgency, client impact, and operational risk
• Calm, proactive, and decisive under pressure

• Keen supports clients around the world and operates in a 24/7/365 environment. Team members are scheduled across a variety of shifts, so flexibility to work different shift patterns is essential.
• This is a full-time, office-based role located in Salt River.

As we support clients across different time zones, Keen operates in a 24/7/365 environment. Team members should be comfortable working flexible schedules to support our clients and deliver an exceptional customer experience.