Team Lead, Payment Experience, Americas (Customer Support)

Flywire; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 51,000 - 73,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

ESPP

Competitive time off

Global teammates

Wellbeing programs

Career development

Job summary

Flywire is seeking a Payment Experience Team Lead for the Americas. You will be the first point of contact, troubleshoot payer issues, and act as a content expert for Flywire payment offerings.

You’ll collaborate with regional managers and cross-functional teams to ensure a frictionless payer experience. Ideal candidates bring 1–2 years in customer support with leadership exposure, excellent English, strong communication, and an analytical mindset.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years in customer support with informal leadership or mentoring experience.
• Excellent written and verbal English language skills.
• Customer oriented mindset with ability to listen, understand, and solve complex requests.
• Able to multi-task and work under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
• Proactive, organized, and quick to adapt to changing requirements while providing feedback.

Responsibilities

• Provide solutions to payer issues by phone, chat, and email with speed and empathy.
• Act as escalation point and content expert for Flywire payment offerings and products.
• Voice of payers, using data/context to identify areas for optimisation.
• Collaborate with CPE Managers to design regional directions and optimise processes.
• Lead daily operations and projects for the regional Payment Experience Team.
• Create monthly schedules, weekly updates, training, and quality reviews.
• Coordinate training material with stakeholders and maintain regional communication.

Skills

Leadership

Customer Support

English Proficiency

Data Analysis

Multitasking

Process Improvement

Tools

Zendesk

Google Workspace

CRM software

Looker

Job description

Are you ready to trade your job for a journey? Become a FlyMate! Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a FlyMate. At Flywire, we’re on a mission to deliver the world’s most important and complex payments. We use our Flywire Advantage - the combination of our next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network and vertical specific software, to help our clients get paid, and help their customers pay with ease - no matter where they are in the world. What more do we need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is you!

Who We Are

Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, founded more than a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments. We’ve scaled into new regions and industry verticals and expanded our product offerings to deliver meaningful value to our clients around the world. Today we support more than 5,100 clients across the global education, healthcare, travel & B2B industries, with diverse payment methods across 240 countries & territories and more than 140 currencies. With over 1,400+ global FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 15 offices world-wide, we’re looking for FlyMates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.

The Opportunity

We, at Flywire, are seeking a Payment Experience Team Lead in the Americas. Payment Experience roles at Flywire are not your typical ‘support’ roles. As the first point of contact at Flywire, you will be equipped with broad knowledge of Flywire's core business capabilities, which alongside your positive attitude and the support of our amazing global team, allows you to troubleshoot any aspect of our payer’s problems. As part of this role, you will liaise closely with Client & Payment Experience Managers, other regional team leads, Central Service team and all departments in a fast-paced environment where growth and change are the norm. Resilience, curiosity, cultural awareness, and empathy are key traits, as your day-to-day will be filled with communicating internationally. Strong written and verbal communication skills are also required. You will be primarily responsible for supporting payer enquiries, serving as a content expert for Flywire payment offerings and products. In addition to this, you will also drive forward the regional Payment Experience Team and be both the key escalation point for Payment Experience Associates & Specialists and the key voice for payment experience. A Payment Experience Team Lead should support the Client & Payment Experience Managers in leading the regional Payment Experience Team, providing feedback on team training needs, regional teammates development plans, payer experience improvements plus anything else that would ultimately help our payers through a ‘frictionless’ experience. You will also support the regional & global Client & Payment Experience function through project work as necessary.

You Will

• Provide solutions to complex issues for payers by phone, chat, and email with speed, professionalism and empathy
• Be the escalation point for teammates, serving as a content expert for Flywire payment offerings and products
• Be the voice of payers within Flywire escalating insight within the Client & Payment Experience (CPE) Team and beyond, using data and context to highlight areas for optimisation
• Work with the CPE Managers to design the regional Payment Experience team directions following the Global CPE direction and the company direction, proactively make plan to optimise our process, drive efficiency and scaling of manual work using data analysis
• Drive forward the regional Payment Experience Team, manage the team’s daily operations and projects execution, support team members in reaching the team goals and in their personal development
• Handle regular team administrative tasks such as the creation of monthly schedules for live contact support and scheduled tasks, weekly updates, training and quality review
• Be the main representative for regional Payment Experience Team, maintaining connection with both Regional CPE Team and other regional stakeholders for regional related new launch and training material preparation, tracking impact for the related change

Qualifications

• 1-2 years in customer support, with experience informally leading or mentoring teammates
• Excellent written and verbal English language skills, additional language (eg. French, Portuguese) is a plus
• Customer oriented mindset, able to listen, understand, and find a solution to the most difficult customer requests with professionalism and empathy
• Comfortable with multi-tasking; able to work under intense pace and high pressure
• Proactive and ambitious learner, able to quickly adapt to the fast changing requirements, remain organized through lots of change and updated materials
• The desire to develop leadership skills, to drive a team’s success and support teammates within the role’s scope, being comfortable and composed when either giving or receiving feedback
• Self motivated and self disciplined, take ownership & accountability (solving enquiries from start to finish)
• Great attention to details, sensitive to issues or potential issues and proactively seek for solutions
• Strong analytical skill, able to use data / best judgement to prioritize tasks that have the most value-add impact
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to enable effective interaction and collaboration within the team and key business stakeholders.
• Able to adapt the communication style to different audiences.
• Ability to work on a flexible schedule
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office suite and CRM software
• Customer service experience
• Payment related experience (banking, forex company)
• International experience (preferred)

Technologies We Use

• Zendesk
• Google Workspace
• Banking and partner back offices
• Looker

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Competitive time off
• Work with brilliant people globally Learn more about their journeys by checking out #InsideFlywire on social media
• Wellbeing Programs (Mental Health, Wellness, Yoga/Pilates/HIIT Classes) with Global FlyMates
• Be a meaningful part in our success - every FlyMate makes an impact
• Great Talent & Development Programs (Managers Taking Flight – for new or aspiring managers, OneFlywire Career Mobility)

We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet with different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager, Peers on the team, the VP of the department, and a skills assessment. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your “go-to” person for any questions.

Flywire is an equal opportunity employer and follows a policy of administering all employment decisions and personnel actions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender identity, national origin, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, genetic disposition or carrier status, veteran status, or any other category protected under applicable national, federal, state or local law.

The Base Salary For This Position Is

$51,121-$73,030

Our salary ranges are determined by role, position level, and location. The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and several other factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education and training.