Senior Customer Experience Manager

About Warp

Warp is the AI-native employee management platform that runs itself. Payroll, multi-state compliance, benefits, and IT vanish so teams never have to think about them. Trusted by 1,000+ companies.

We believe the next great companies won't add features. They'll remove work. Our AI agents navigate thousands of government portals, open state tax accounts, resolve compliance notices, and file forms upstream, before any of it ever surfaces. Companies scale from 5 to 500+ employees without adding HR headcount.

Most platforms track operations. We handle them entirely. Warp uses obsessive engineering and a philosophy of subtraction to solve complexity that others won't touch. The goal is simple: it works in the background while you build your company.

As one founder put it: "Using Warp feels like the first time I used Linear or Superhuman. The realization that payroll can just work."

Backed by $25M from Sound Ventures, Y Combinator, and the founders of Dropbox, Replit, OpenAI and Cruise. Team of ~34 from Stripe, Brex, Ramp, Google, Apple, Palantir, and MIT.

About The Role

Most support orgs are inherited. This one gets built. You'll be the first Senior CX Manager at Warp, the person who decides what great looks like, builds the team that delivers it, and owns the outcome completely. This is a role for someone who has done this before, moves fast, and wants to build something they're proud of at a company that's rewriting how payroll works.

What You’ll Do

The support org is yours — the people, the process, the metrics, the culture, and the escalations. You'll set the standard, hire to it, and hold the team to it. You'll develop managers and specialists, build the career pathing and onboarding infrastructure that scales with us, and create a culture of accountability that's grounded in data and driven by outcomes.

When a payroll issue is complex, high-stakes, or crossing multiple teams, it lands with you. You'll drive resolution end-to-end, orchestrating across product, engineering, tax, and benefits with the kind of control and clarity that makes customers trust us and internal teams respect you. You're not just solving problems — you're building the systems, runbooks, SLA frameworks, and escalation playbooks that prevent them. You'll conduct root cause analysis, surface trends to leadership, and partner with Product and Engineering to close the loop on anything systemic. You are the voice of the customer at the table and you show up that way every time.

What You Need

You have led and managed support teams — not informally, not as a senior IC. You've owned the headcount, the SLAs, the performance reviews, and the structure. You've built things from scratch and have the track record to prove it. Managing managers or team leads is a strong plus; we're building a function that will need that layer and we want someone who's ready for it.

You have 5–8 years in support operations or a customer-facing leadership role with meaningful time at a fintech, HRIS, or payroll platform. Your payroll knowledge is deep — you can debug a tax filing error, untangle a multi-state compliance issue, and explain garnishments to a first-time HR admin without breaking a sweat. You know how to hold people accountable without losing them. You don't confuse activity with results.

You communicate with precision at every level. You can de-escalate a furious customer and brief a CEO on the same issue within the hour. You stay composed when things are on fire.

You are data-fluent, product-minded, and relentlessly biased toward action. You don't wait for a playbook. You write it.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with HRIS systems, accounting software (e.g. QuickBooks, Xero), or payroll platforms.

• Experience at an early-stage or high-growth company where the playbook was still being written.

• Track record owning implementation metrics end-to-end with specific numbers attached.

Compensation

$112,000 – $181,000 OTE, depending on experience, plus equity and full benefits.