Senior Manager, Customer Support (Customer Experience & Support Operations)

Aurora; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 162,000 - 259,000; Full time

Job summary

Aurora is seeking a Senior Manager, Customer Support to lead the largest team in our Support organization, delivering fast, high-quality, customer-first experiences for B2B carriers and fleets. You will own frontline operations, staffing, and process improvements at scale.

You will build a customer-obsessed culture, define omnichannel strategies, and partner with Product, Engineering, and Analytics to optimize the end-to-end experience.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in customer support or contact center ops, including 4+ years leading teams.
• Proven experience scaling frontline support in high-growth environments.
• Deep fluency in support metrics (CSAT, SLAs, FCR, handle time) and CRM like Salesforce.
• Hands-on experience deploying self-service and/or AI-assisted support with guardrails.
• Data-savvy: define KPIs and partner with analytics teams to drive decisions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; cross-functional stakeholder management.
• Ability to work through ambiguity in a fast-paced environment; willing to travel on-site.

Responsibilities

• Build and develop a customer-obsessed frontline support team, scaling capacity as Aurora expands driverless operations.
• Define and steward customer-centric standards: tone, case management, omnichannel, CRM evolution.
• Own operating plan for frontline support: headcount, capacity, budget, staffing alignment.
• Manage the team to deliver excellent support across phone, email, chat with measured CSAT/SLAs.
• Establish workforce planning, QA, coaching, and enablement for growing volume.
• Use data to monitor KPIs and forecast demand with analytics teams.
• Help design and improve self-service and AI-assisted support with guardrails.
• Partner with Tier 2 and Voice of the Customer teams to surface issues and insights.
• Present progress to leadership; surface risks and trade-offs for cross-functional alignment.

Skills

Customer support ops

Team leadership

CSAT & SLAs

AI-assisted support

Data analytics

Communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Travel on-site

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Who We Are

Aurora’s mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly.

The Aurora Driver will create a new era in mobility and logistics, one that will bring a safer, more efficient, and more accessible future to everyone.

At Aurora, you will tackle massively complex problems alongside other passionate, intelligent individuals, growing as an expert while expanding your knowledge. For the latest news from Aurora, visit aurora.tech or follow us on LinkedIn.

What We Are Looking For

Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all. We’re searching for a Senior Manager, Customer Support to lead the Customer Experience & Support Operations team on the front line of every customer interaction. Reporting to the Head of Support, you'll build, hire, and lead the largest team in the support organization. You will own how Aurora delivers a fast, high-quality, customer‑first support experience at scale to our B2B customers (carriers, fleets) who depend on driverless freight running reliably.

In this role, you will

• Build and develop a customer-obsessed team culture. Hire and lead the frontline customer support team (Tier 1), including team leads and/or managers, scaling capacity and capability as Aurora expands commercial driverless operations.
• Define and steward Aurora's customer‑centricity standards: tone of voice, case management practices, the omnichannel experience, and CRM setup and ongoing evolution.
• Own the operating plan for frontline support: headcount, capacity, and budget. Align resourcing and priorities with Support leadership as the organization scales.
• Manage the team to deliver excellent customer support across channels (phone, email, chat), consistently meeting experience, quality, and efficiency targets at scale (CSAT, response and resolution SLAs, first‑contact resolution, handle time).
• Establish the workforce planning, quality assurance, coaching, and enablement mechanisms needed to deliver consistent, high‑quality support as volume grows.
• Use data to run the operation: define and monitor operational KPIs, drive your own analyses, and partner with analytics teams to forecast demand and inform staffing and process decisions.
• Help design and continuously improve self‑service and AI‑assisted support, including guardrails, validation, and ongoing evaluation of automated resolutions integrated with Aurora's systems.
• Partner closely with the Tier 2 team, ensuring your team accurately escalates issues, learns and continuously absorbs new issue types from Tier 2 to Tier 1, and provides feedback on the knowledge and tooling.
• Partner closely with the Voice of the Customer team to surface recurring customer pain points.
• Present on progress towards customer‑centricity and frontline support performance to senior and executive leadership. Surface risks and trade‑offs, advise on organizational design and service‑level decisions, and align cross‑functional partners on shared priorities.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years in customer support or contact center operations, including 4+ years leading teams (ideally managing managers).
• Proven experience building and scaling a frontline support organization: hiring, workforce planning, quality management, and standing up processes in a high‑growth or ambiguous environment.
• Deep fluency in support operations metrics (CSAT, SLAs, first‑contact resolution, handle time) and CRM platforms (e.g., Salesforce).
• Hands‑on experience deploying self‑service and/or AI‑assisted support with strong attention to guardrails and evaluation.
• Data‑savvy: comfortable defining KPIs, running your own analyses, and partnering with analytics teams to drive decisions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, strong cross‑functional stakeholder management.
• Ability to work through ambiguity in a fast‑paced environment.
• Due to 24/7 nature of support operation, the candidate should be flexible to occasional night/weekend/holiday availability when needed and ready to travel to spend time on‑site with the operations team.

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience supporting highly technical and safety‑critical environments.
• Experience standing up and optimizing phone/voice support.
• Experience with CRM implementation and evolution.
• Experience partnering with Product and Engineering to improve the end‑to‑end customer experience.
• Experience managing B2B support.
• Experience in carrier / freight industry.

For roles based in San Francisco, CA: The salary range for this position is $179,000 - $287,000 per year.

For roles based in Dallas, TX and Pittsburgh, PA: The salary range for this position is $162,000 - $259,000 per year.

Aurora’s pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, the successful candidate’s starting base pay will be determined based on factors including job‑related skills, experience, qualifications, relevant education or training, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future. The successful candidate will also be eligible for an annual bonus, equity compensation, and benefits.

Working at Aurora

At Aurora, we bring together extraordinarily talented and experienced people united by the strength of our values. We operate with integrity, set outrageous goals, and build a culture where we win together — all without any jerks.

We believe in‑person work increases collaboration, empathy and our ability to lead effectively. As a result, we operate in a hybrid work environment where Aurorans are in office at least 3 days per week.

Our Careers page provides insight into what it is like to work at Aurora, and you can find all the latest updates in our Newsroom.

Our commitment to safety

At the core of everything we do is our commitment to safety. Building best‑in‑class self‑driving technology will take time, and we believe that each employee at Aurora has a role in contributing to safety, every step of the way. Aurora expects commitment to our safety policies from every employee, and seeks candidates who take an active responsibility, can contribute to building an atmosphere of trust, and invest in the organization’s long‑term success by prioritizing working safely, no matter what.

Our commitment to inclusion

Aurora considers candidates without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy status, parent or caregiver status, ancestry, political affiliation, veteran and/or military status, physical or mental disability, or any other status protected by federal or state law. Aurora considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [e-mail].

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