Sr. Manager, Smart Home Customer Experience

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ROLE SUMMARY

We are seeking a strategic leader to join NRG’s Smart Home Customer Experience team, whose mission is to drive and deliver customer-centric initiatives across the enterprise and to build trusting relationships with our customers.

The Senior Manager will design, optimize, and continuously improve end-to-end customer experiences across all touchpoints, diving deep into customer feedback and using a data-driven, problem-solving approach. The person will lead projects, working cross-functionally with teams such as Innovation, Technology, Sales, Supply Chain, Field Operations, Marketing, and Finance to solve customer pain points. 

 

EXPERIENCE: This role requires a strategic thinker who has experience translating customer insights into actionable journey improvements, partnering cross-functionally to drive alignment, and ensuring a seamless, consistent experience from acquisition through retention. The ideal candidate is highly analytical, customer-obsessed, and skilled at identifying friction points, prioritizing opportunities, and delivering measurable impact on key customer and business outcomes.

 

OWNERSHIP: Own the plan, manage scope, schedule, and budget for your assigned projects. Understand priorities and create clear plans to deliver.  Communicate with stakeholders and partners.  Set and meet commitments. Set specific release dates and milestones and hold the team accountable, while communicating support needs or issues that put the deliverables at risk.

 

LEADERSHIP: Understand Smart Home’s strategic priorities and ensure the team’s work aligns with them.  Partner with support, field, sales, technology, and product teams to deliver impactful solutions and drive joint initiatives. Set schedules and create strong execution plans.  Work across teams to review the proposed scope and determine Level of Effort (LOE) estimates, as well as suitable trade-offs between quality and business risk.

 

COMMUNICATION: Create appropriate communications to regularly update the business on status, risks, and support required for success.  Provide weekly status updates that communicate progress towards the commitment in terms of scope, schedule, and cost. Share insights in PPT and Tableau.

 

RISK AND ISSUE MANAGEMENT: Lead the team to identify risks up front, manage and mitigate them, and monitor residual risks and any issues that arise. Track tasks and lead a culture of accountability in the team and across the business. Establish robust change and risk management practices to keep work on track.

 

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

 

• Organize and oversee the design and execution of customer journey improvement projects that will both positively impact customers and help grow the business
• Help shape strategies to improve customer experiences in collaboration with internal and external partners
• Assist in reviewing customer data, determining root causes, CX gap solutions, and recommendations to the business
• Work with subject matter experts to map out customer flows, investigate gaps, and help define problems
• Working with the Analytics team to track key customer experience metrics by geography, customer lifetime, journeys, touchpoints, etc., and to understand the key drivers of customer satisfaction and dissatisfaction.
• Operationalize the function from scratch by creating processes, establishing cross-functional relationships, defining success metrics, and scaling the function from an individual contributor to a team leader
• Maintain a positive attitude, steer difficult situations diplomatically, and use data-driven decisions to enhance quality and efficiency
• Build strong relationships across the business, foster knowledge s