DIRECTOR OF CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
Description
Foot Levelers is looking for a Director of Customer Experience to lead and evolve how we serve, support, and grow our customers.
This is a strategic, operational, and people-focused leadership role with responsibility across Customer Service, Inside & Outside Sales, and Technical Support. You'll work with a high-performing Customer Experience organization by bringing together the right people, processes, technology, training, and data.
We're looking for a leader who can deliver an outstanding customer experience today while helping us build what's next. You'll modernize how our teams work through smarter processes, automation, AI-enabled tools, knowledge management, analytics, and structured training—all while keeping our commitment to Love and Service at the center of the customer experience.
What You'll Lead
Customer Experience Strategy & Leadership
- Lead and develop Customer Service, Sales, and Technical Support teams and their leaders.
- Create an environment of accountability, development, collaboration, and high performance.
- Partner with senior leadership to align Customer Experience priorities, policies, systems, and practices with broader business objectives.
- Maintain a strong connection to our customers through calls, events, seminars, and time in the field.
- Translate customer and employee insights into meaningful improvements across the organization.
Technology, AI & Innovation
- Own and continuously improve the Customer Experience technology ecosystem.
- Evaluate and optimize CRM, ERP, contact-center, telephony, ticketing, knowledge-base, call-recording, quality-assurance, workforce-management, and customer-communication technologies.
- Identify opportunities to automate routine work and simplify employee workflows.
- Evaluate and implement AI-enabled capabilities such as virtual agents, agent-assist tools, automated communications, knowledge retrieval, interaction summarization, and workflow automation.
- Lead adoption and change management as new technologies and processes are introduced.
Training, Coaching & Team Development
- Build and own a comprehensive Customer Experience training and development program.
- Establish structured onboarding and role-based training for new employees.
- Develop ongoing product, sales, service, systems, and technical education.
- Establish effective call coaching, quality calibration, scripting, objection handling, knowledge checks, and certification programs.
- Create repeatable resources and documentation that make knowledge easy to find and share.
- Measure the impact of training through employee performance and customer outcomes.
Customer Growth & Engagement
- Develop proactive strategies to get, keep, and grow customers.
- Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Growth on customer onboarding, first-purchase follow-up, reorder, reactivation, cross-sell, retention, and outbound engagement programs.
- Use customer segmentation to develop appropriate service and outreach strategies.
- Help Customer Experience teams identify opportunities to deepen relationships and increase customer utilization of Foot Levelers products, technology, programs, and resources.
- Ensure customer programs and promotional initiatives are executed effectively and deliver a strong customer experience.
Data, Performance & Continuous Improvement
- Establish and maintain a Customer Experience scorecard with clearly defined KPIs.
- Use customer, sales, employee, and operational data to identify trends, opportunities, performance gaps, and root causes.
- Track measures such as customer satisfaction, response time, service level, first-contact resolution, call quality, conversion, reorder behavior, retention, reactivation, productivity, revenue influence, and training effectiveness.
- Develop and maintain Standard Operating Procedures for core Customer Experience processes.
- Continuously simplify workflows, reduce manual work, and eliminate customer friction.