Team Lead, Customer Care

What you will do

As a Customer Care Team Lead, BI, you will lead a team of Technical Support Specialists supporting Lighthouse’s Business Intelligence products. You will own the day-to-day operations of the team while driving process improvements, developing team expertise, and ensuring high-quality, efficient support delivery.

This role requires strong operational leadership, technical depth, and the ability to navigate complex customer and product challenges in a fast-paced environment.

Where you will have impact

• Own day-to-day team operations, including inbox health, prioritization, workload distribution, and ensuring timely resolution across support tiers.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the team through regular one-on-ones, performance feedback, and career growth conversations, while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Act as the escalation point for complex and high-impact customer issues, including managing critical incidents, coordinating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring clear, timely communication to customers.
• Drive operational excellence by identifying inefficiencies, improving processes, and implementing scalable solutions (including automation and AI-supported workflows) to increase team efficiency and reduce manual work.
• Monitor and analyze team performance and support trends (e.g., Intercom metrics, backlog health, handling time), using insights to inform prioritization, staffing, and process improvements.
• Balance competing priorities and resource allocation across different workstreams and support tiers, ensuring the team is focused on the highest-impact work.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Account Management to advocate for customer needs, provide feedback on product gaps, and influence improvements to the customer experience.
• Support onboarding and enablement, working with the Customer Enablement Manager to ramp new hires and continuously upskill the team through training, documentation, and mentorship.
• Contribute to hiring and team growth, including interviewing candidates and helping shape the future of the team.
• Step in as acting Customer Care Manager when needed, ensuring continuity of leadership and decision-making.

About our team

Our Customer Care team advises and guides our wide array of customers as they map any number of business needs to Lighthouse. We are the faces of Lighthouse - genuinely compassionate, strategic-minded, organized and dedicated. Fulfilling this role means you are entrusted with the relationships, and product health specifically for integrated products.

What's in it for you?

• Impactful work: Shape products relied on by 85,000+ users worldwide
• Competitive compensation: Proactively maintained to value your work
• Flexible working environment: Work from home or at one of our global offices
• Flexible time off: Autonomy to manage your work-life balance
• 401k matching: Up to 4%
• Health insurance: Two Blue Cross Blue Shield plans with 99% company contribution to the base plan and 50% for dependents and spouses, plus $25/month to HSA
• Employer paid Short and Long Term Disability + $50,000 Life Insurance 
• Parental leave: 12 week c