Head of Customer Experience
You know that TikTok meme, the one where someone is doing something stupid and the saxophone just keeps getting louder? That is basically my entire career doing Bad Job Bingo on AI jobs.
Roles labeled as Head or Director of a CX function, or that involve being responsible for the business outcomes of an entire CX function, department, or division (regardless of size).
You know that TikTok meme, the one where someone is doing something stupid and the saxophone just keeps getting louder? That is basically my entire career doing Bad Job Bingo on AI jobs.
Scribd is being transparent about not being a customer-first organization in which every team contributes to customer happiness. It's saying the company doesn't want to deal with customers, and you're constantly going to be nagging them for the smallest scraps to improve the customer experience.
I'm going to say Tread Carefully for this one, balancing a mostly normal JD with my concerns about company culture.
Either something is in the water all of these companies are drinking, or they're all using AI to write these JDs. Are they just not reading what's been written at all? For fuck's sake.
Overall, I don't think the company presents itself well, and I have concerns about what this role is expected to do. I don't think we've quite hit Seriously, Maybe Don't, but it's definitely a BINGO.
Support cannot fix your organization. This has "massive and ongoing failures of leadership" written all over it.
Brace yourself for an in-depth analysis of Ashby's Careers and Culture materials; I wouldn't normally do this, but considering it's hiring software, it feels appropriate.
Hmm, I have a feeling that going from the Twilio job to this one will be a big leap. Or maybe more like a sharp drop.
I know, there's someone out there who loves this kind of thing. But I can't help but read that as, "we have no idea what it takes to actually run Support or Trust & Safety in this space and therefore we have unrealistic expectations for this role and have no idea how to meaningfully support it."
Having said all that, this role's responsibilities are well-scoped and make sense for a Director role, as do the requirements, which distinguish it well enough from the VP position. If it weren't for the lack of salary transparency, this would still go in Eh, It's Probably Fine, but alas.
I mean, the comp is $140,000-$180,000, but that doesn't seem nearly enough for a role that's running CS, Ops, IT, HR, and maybe also the rest of the company?
I'm putting this in BINGO purely for how insufferable this company sounds.
I'm glad that my anxiety was proven unnecessary – this sounds like a great job with great pay and benefits. It's not so outstanding that I feel comfortable giving it a Green Means Go, but it's a high Eh, It's Probably Fine.
This sounds like a really interesting role with an earnest company, with some neat travel opportunities thrown in. However, since I'm still unsure of what I think about the recruitment video and there's no salary transparency, I'm going to put this in a very tentative Tread Carefully.
I'm sorry, the fuck? You want this role to build out its own completely separate product development function to fix a product so seemingly broken that even the Engineering, Product, and Design teams don't want to deal with it anymore? ARE YOU KIDDING ME
Ding ding ding, we have a (BINGO) winner.
This whole JD is a sloppy mess, but hey, at least the pay's good?
Friends. You're in sales. You know pretty words like "competitive," "generous," and "comprehensive" mean nothing unless there's data to back them up. What are the numbers? Tell me the numbers!
It is so infuriating when companies want the credit of giving a salary without actually giving the salary, which is such utter bullshit, especially from a company with stated values of "Trustworthiness" and "Accountability."
Okay, so look. This could just be me. I am highly suspicious and cynical, I fully own that. But everything in this job description just comes across as slightly off. Just, like, this side of reasonable.
Hoo boy. Why does this read to me as "We will give you no resources, we will change the parameters of success constantly, and we will offer little to no support toward meeting your strategic goals. Good luck!"
Oh wow, how unique brightwheel is! Because most startups move like molasses and expect their people to come in and fail immediately and repeatedly.
Nope, that's...that's the salary. That's the real salary in reality.
This is essentially a Director role with engineer duties, and right now, the salary is only compensating for one of those things.