Alma
Director, Voice of the Customer
Job Summary
The role involves developing and leading Alma's Voice of the Customer strategy to ensure customer insights influence product and business decisions. The candidate will translate data into actionable insights, collaborate across teams, and create engaging programs to enhance customer experience. Extensive experience in data analytics, customer research, and stakeholder collaboration is required. The position offers comprehensive benefits, including health coverage, stipends, and paid time off, in a remote-first work environment.
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Job Description
Alma is on a mission to simplify access to high-quality, affordable mental health care. We do this by making it easy and financially rewarding for therapists to accept insurance and offer in-network care. When a provider joins Alma, they gain access to a suite of tools that not only help them better run their business, but also grow it sustainably and develop as a provider. Alma is available in all 50 states, with over 20,000 therapists in our growing network. Anyone looking for a therapist can browse Alma’s free directory. Alma has raised $220.5M in funding from Insight Partners, Optum Ventures, Tusk Venture Partners, Primary Venture Partners, First Round Capital, Sound Ventures, BoxGroup, Cigna Ventures, and Rainfall Ventures. Alma was also named one of Inc’s Best Workplaces in 2022 and 2023.
Director, Voice of the Customer
As Alma’s Voice of the Customer leader, you will ensure customer insights are core to every decision. You will own designing and leading Alma’s VoC strategy, iterating and expanding our current insights program, combining deep subject matter expertise of our products with compelling storytelling, showcasing the customer experience, and critical opportunities. You will work closely with Operations, Product Management, Design, Product Marketing, and Business Intelligence to incorporate the voice of the customer and CX into every product development process, driving the continuous improvement of our products and services.
A successful candidate should have extensive experience turning data into solutions, designing and shipping processes alongside product and technical teams, and be extremely customer-focused.
What You’ll Do
- Create and lead a strategic Voice of the Customer program: establishing quantitative measurements that drive value and impact, synthesizing qualitative data into clear, actionable recommendations, and translating a deep understanding of our customers into strategic efforts that create exceptional customer experiences.
- Nurture effective collaborative relationships across key stakeholders— shaping product and business strategy alongside these partners.
- Create engaging programs that build customer awareness and empathy across the business— customer centricity is front-and-center through these programs.
- Create a robust framework for customer feedback loops so that we’re consistently measuring, communicating, and actioning on what matters most.
- Partner effectively with our data teams to build the data infrastructure required to make meaningful connections and insights about our customers’ experiences.
Who You Are
- 8+ years of work experience leading an analytical function such as Customer/User Insights, Product Operations, CX Operations, Voice of the Customer, etc.
- Strong data reporting and data analytics skills, including SQL— writing basic functions like select statements, joining multiple tables, filtering, aggregates & case/when statements— with a proven ability to influence using data.
- Experience conducting customer research, competitive analysis, and synthesizing product insights.
- Track record of collaboration with cross-functional teams to solve complex customer challenges.
- The ability to convey complicated and technical topics in simple, jargon-less, engaging formats— bonus points for experience creating multi-modal content to deliver compelling stories.
- You have cultural humility, can build relationships across differences, and have excellent interpersonal communication skills.
Benefits:
- We’re a remote-first company
- Health insurance plans through Aetna (medical and dental) and MetLife (vision), including FSA and HSA plans
- 401K plan (ADP)
- Monthly therapy and wellness stipends
- Monthly co-working space membership stipend
- Monthly work-from-home stipend
- Financial wellness benefits through Northstar
- Pet discount program through United Pet Care
- Financial perks and rewards through BenefitHub
- EAP access through Aetna
- One-time home office stipend to set up your home office
- Comprehensive parental leave plans
- 11 paid holidays, 1 Alma Mental Health Day, and 1 Alma Volunteering Day
- Flexible PTO
Salary Band: $165,000 - $185,000
Alma’s compensation philosophy is driven by our company value of building equity. To best ensure pay equity, we typically bring in new hires near the middle of our listed salary bands and we do not negotiate our compensation (i.e. all people hired at the same level & role are brought in at the same salary, equity, and benefits). The recruiter you work with can provide more details on our philosophy.
All Alma jobs are listed on our careers page. We do not use outside applications or automated text messaging in our recruiting process. We will not ask for any sensitive financial or identification information throughout the recruiting process. Any communication during the recruitment process, including interview requests or job offers, will come directly from a recruiting team member with a helloalma.com email address.
Learn more about how Alma handles applicant data by reading Alma's Applicant Privacy Notice.
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