Group Lead, Customer Experience

Who We Are

The Farmer’s Dog was born from a mission to change the landscape of pet health, providing dogs and their humans with honest, smart, and simple care. We’re starting by radically improving the $90 billion pet food industry, replacing bags of highly-processed pellets with a personalized subscription service that sends complete and balanced, freshly-made dog food directly to customers’ doors. Our ultimate goal is to create innovative, delightful and personalized experiences across all aspects of pet care, and we believe our direct-to-consumer business model, holistic approach to growth, and dynamic culture uniquely position us to shepherd this backwards industry into the future.

To date, The Farmer’s Dog has delivered over 1 billion meals nationwide and raised over $150M in funding to help us build a company as healthy as the dogs who are eating those meals. Join us as we continue to develop ways of bringing peace of mind to customers, health to their companions, and much-needed change to the way people feed and care for their pets.

#LongLiveDogs

What We Stand For and Where You'll Come In

The Group Lead role at The Farmer’s Dog is one of our most important positions because the person hired for this role is responsible for our best assets – our front line associates.

A Group Lead will play a crucial role in leading and developing a group of 10-15 associates to become ambassadors for our valued customers for The Farmer’s Dog. The successful candidate has more than a year of experience leading customer service teams in other DTC organizations as a subject matter authority and first line of defense to troubleshoot operational issues, escalate them as needed and collaborate with appropriate teams for resolution to ensure that our customers receive the best support and satisfaction. Additionally they will drive results within their team primarily through proactive coaching, but will also be adept at course correcting with associates when needed.

A Group Lead will maintain their expertise in providing outstanding customer experience by spending time as required in directly communicating with customers to resolve customer issues efficiently and effectively at first contact. An additional 50% of a Group Lead’s time will be spent coaching and ensuring quality assurance for their group. The remainder of their time will be spent on administrative tasks and projects as assigned or approved by their manager. These projects include process improvement and data analysis with cross-functional teams.

Our Group Leads should embody servant leadership. Their primary responsibility is to ensure that their CX Associates feel empowered, encouraged, and equipped to represent The Farmer’s Dog in the best way possible. This means approaching each associate as an individual and pouring time and energy into their specific needs while identifying personal strengths and areas for improvement as they grow through their Farmer’s Dog career.

One Team: We don’t think of ourselves as “Acquisition Marketers”, “Engineers”, “Data Analysts”, or “Product Managers”. Beyond denoting skill sets and areas of expertise, we don’t think departments matter. We’d rather align ourselves to the goals we’re working to achieve and make sure we have necessary subject matter expertise to drive meaningful impact. We strive to orient ourselves around customer problems TOGETHER – getting the right people, with the right context, in the right rooms/Zooms to solve problems holistically.

We are skeptical about everything and precious about nothing: Ideas can and should come from anywhere, and we aren’t tied to our own. We proactively source input. We talk to our customers and leads regularly and are quick to change course if we know there’s a better or more impactful way to solve problems.

We consider the customer journey in all of our decisions: We know that no interaction exists in a silo and therefore understand how important every single one is. We ensure our strategy sets prospective and new customers up for success and drives long-term retention. We answer questions and address problems early and proactively. We understand the value of different channels, initiatives, and messages and know how to articulate impact and advocate for prioritization holistically.

We Execute For Impact: We don’t subscribe to “best practices” or “industry KPIs”. We’re uninterested in how we compare to “benchmarks”; instead we orient ourselves around being the best we can possibly be. Similarly, we don’t subscribe to rigid or classical expectations of roles – i.e. acquisition is hyper-focused on improving customer retention and experience.

We Are Focused and Work Without Assumption: We are not beholden to ideas. We have goals and believe everything beyond that is a series of hypotheses to validate. To that end, we seek to work in sequence and not in parallel. We constantly ask ourselves, “what’s the most important hypothesis I should be working on right now? How do I confirm or reject that hypothesis as fast as possible?”. We rarely have timelines/deadlines and are constantly taking in new information and adjusting our priorities accordingly. We don’t expect to be perfect the first time.

The current shifts being offered are 

• Tuesday-Saturday 10am - 7pm ET
• Sunday-Thursday 10am - 7pm ET
• Sunday-Thursday 2pm - 11pm ET
• Friday-Monday 12pm - 11pm ET

How You'll Make An Impact

Coaching

• Provide real-time and structured feedback to group
• Identify recurring mentor opportunities and build impactful and pointed 1:1s around them
• Report trends in knowledge gaps to allow Training to address systematically
• Ability and willingness to coach a group on new processes and policies as needed
• Follow up with direct reports as needed to ensure efficient completion of assigned tasks 
• Work closely with managers to develop ongoing strategies to protect and promote TFD culture/values within the department.

Phone Support

• Handle escalated phone calls in real time

Written Communication

• Be the source of truth for any questions that arise from team members
• Coach team members on the best way to find information directly

Systems and Processes

• Always Seek Better to provide constructive feedback and proposed solutions for systems and processes that do not meet your needs

Administrative

• Assist with onboarding and offboarding team members
• Assist our HR Group in supporting your group as needed
• Ensure time is tracked accurately and approve timecards in for all direct reports
• Inbox Admin 

We're Excited About You Because

• You have a minimum of 1-2 years leading and developing employees in previous roles
• You have strong emotional intelligence and ability to think in a customer-first manner
• You have a proven command of different platforms and customer experience tools
• You are proficient in Excel and Google Sheets
• You have an infectious positive demeanor

Office Guidelines

We are an in-office culture, made of in-office people who thrive on the collaboration and magnetism of working in a shared space. While we are temporarily remote as we search for our dream office location scheduled to open in Q1 of 2025, we are seeking individuals who excel in this type of environment, where being present fosters deeper connections and engagement. Until our new office opens, this role will initially be remote, requiring reliable home internet access with the necessary upload/download speeds.

Our DEI Philosophy:

Our company’s mission is rooted in deep, genuine care for dogs – and for the people who love them. As an organization we are full of individuals who are unique in many ways, but all united in a mission of providing true peace of mind to dog lovers everywhere. Fixing this industry and improving the lives of pets and their people will be a difficult, decades-long endeavor. We believe the best use of our time, energy, and resources as a collective team is to focus on this mission, and on supporting our team to do their best work and be their best selves. In support of this we’re committed to hiring and supporting a diverse workforce, and investing in internal structures, opportunities, hiring/promotions processes, and training that create and sustain an inclusive team. We strive to provide an experience at TFD that will be invested, meaningful and memorable as we progress on the journey to reimagine how we feed and care for our pets.

A Few of Our Best Benefits

• Pup-friendly office in North Fort Lauderdale/Boca Raton area
• Market-competitive compensation and equity packages
• Comprehensive Healthcare, Dental, and Vision
• Company sponsored mental health benefit and coaching through Modern Health
• 12 week paid parental leave
• Competitive 401k plan with company match
• Flexible PTO and hybrid work policy
• Discounted fresh food for your pup
• Your pet interrupting video calls (and in-person meetings) is now a feature, not a bug

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The Farmer's Dog, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic or status. For more information, please visit Know Your Rights.