Team Lead, Open Market Benefits

Who You Are

Are you focused and committed to helping people? Do you love to problem solve issues for customers?  How would you like to be part of a fast growing team with the ability to learn and develop new skills?

The Team Lead will support workflows and customer requests related to Justworks’ MDV, COBRA and FSA/HSA benefits, ensuring the team is supported through ongoing training and assistance with complex issues. They will work closely with the Operations Manager to highlight trends and opportunities for process improvements. This position will be responsible for ensuring the day-to-day productivity and support of a number of different processes related to benefits operations. The Team Lead will work closely with Sales, Customer Support, Engineering, and Legal teams at Justworks. The ideal candidate will have a desire to help others, a curiosity to learn, and an interest in supporting and mentoring others.

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On

• Oversee day-to-day team operations including:
• Lead daily stand-ups with the team, providing time sensitive updates
• Review incoming Jira tickets, ensuring they are properly categorized and triaged to team members
• Support associates with complex requests
• Identify aging tickets and collaborate with owners to resolve the tickets within SLA
• Routinely check the work product of all team members to ensure accuracy and discover learning opportunities
• Monitor workload and ticket volume handled by team members
• Consistently evaluate current processes and create new policies surrounding the benefits managed by our team
• Communicate trends and issues in everyday workflow to manager to seek resources or solutions
• Consistently maintain and improve reference and training materials
• Tracking KPIs and reporting on them monthly
• Develop and execute training and onboarding plans for new hires and existing team members
• Foster coaching relationships with team members through regular check-ins
• Develop and maintain productive and collaborative relationships with internal teams like Product, CSO and Sales 
• Collaborate with Product Analysts to identify the need for engineering intervention and escalate accordingly
• Perform other related responsibilities as needed based on department and/or organizational needs.

How You Will Do Your Work

As a Team Lead, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following:

• Detail-oriented - exercises extreme attention to detail; is thorough, accurate, organized, and productive and seeks to understand both the cause and effect of a situation.
• Ethical practice - the ability to integrate core values, integrity and accountability throughout all organizational and business practices.
• Clear communication - the ability to articulate thoughts and express ideas effectively using oral, written, visual and non-verbal communication skills, as well as listening skills to gain understanding.
• Analytical - uses a logical reasoning process to break down and work through a situation or problem to arrive at an outcome.
• Good judgment - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome.

In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:

• Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
• Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
• Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
• Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example. 
• Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”

Qualifications

• Minimum of  5 years of experience in operations
• Extremely detailed-oriented with great time management skills
• Strong analytical, written and verbal communication skills
• Experience working in a fast-paced, data-driven environment
• Experience working cross-functionally
• Experience with partner management
• Experience with Jira and Confluence or similar software
• Ability to work both independently and as a team
• Advanced knowledge of Insurance, FSA/HSA, COBRA benefits required

The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $97,000.00 - $106,700.00 per year.