Lead, Customer Operations

On our path to becoming the world's favorite way to shop, we’re assembling an unparalleled global talent network, accelerating individual careers, and disrupting entire industries. We are on a mission to liberate humanity from all the meaningless time spent managing their purchases and finances, so they can do more of what they love. We’re in search of global talent eager to embrace a hypergrowth atmosphere and defy their own expectations.

We are supporting Klarna’s hyper-growth by enabling our organization and operations to move with the highest speed and quality. We are Klarna’s operational experts, driving efficiency and customer experience across our organization (e.g., Service, Payments, Disputes, Merchant Support, Underwriting/Onboarding). Our 8 Leadership Principles guide our growth at Klarna, they are the constant in an ever-changing landscape.

Within Operations, the
- **Lead, Customer Operations** will be responsible for ensuring performance in line with the strategy and delivering lean, excellent services with high quality and efficiency. As a leader, you will be developing and inspiring a team of specialists, empathizing with the problems that our users face every day, and implementing solutions that strengthen the trust of the brand. Your role and responsibilities will include but not be limited to ensuring that the team is run effectively, delivering results that support Klarna’s growth.

**What you'll do**:

- Manage your market and meet or exceed key performance indicators
- Recruit, manage and inspire a team of specialists and be passionate about their career development
- Ensure continuous development of the team, share best practices, organize trainings/workshops
- Serve as a member of the leadership team, identify issues, contribute ideas/solutions, and support the team in all actions
- Drive and support global initiatives to improve Klarna’s overall Operational Excellence and Customer Service
- Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to address business needs

**What you'll need**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration/similar field or equivalent experience
- Minimum 4 years of work experience in a fast-paced Customer Service/Operations environment, preferably within the Banking/FinTech industry
- Minimum 2 years of experience in building, mentoring, and inspiring a high performing professional team
- Service and customer obsession mindset
- Strong project/program management skills
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and evolving environment
- Data-driven mindset, strong analytical and problem-solving ability
- Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to perform under pressure
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

**What we offer**:
**Diversity & Community**
- With our diversity of skills, perspectives and backgrounds, we can create, innovate, and disrupt like no other. Diversity is part of who we are, and essential to our success.

**Ownership & Impact**
- Here, every voice matters. We’re organized into hundreds of small teams, each run like a start-up, focused on their own problem-space.**Trust & Collaboration**
- Successes and failures are won together at Klarna in a melting pot of teams. Win, lose, and learn, we’re on this path together.

The Klarna Work Policy is designed to make sure we foster team collaboration while also ensuring a productive and flexible work environment. We work 2 days per week in the office on agreed days, and then 3 flexible days. We’re also providing each Klarnaut with an annual financial contribution to improve their flexible work life whether they use it to upgrade their work accessories, or their home office space

**Challenges & Rewards**
- We take a very Swedish approach to benefits. Support for parents, health and wellness perks—we’ve got you covered.**About Klarna