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Director of User Operations
Company | Quizlet |
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Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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Salary | $150000 – $250000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | |
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Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 10+ years of people management experience, including remote and vendor team oversight
- Demonstrated success in defining and executing cross-functional operational strategies at scale
- Strategic thinker with strong ownership, data fluency, and vision-setting capabilities
- Proven experience architecting support systems and infrastructure, including taxonomy, workflow automation, and reporting frameworks
- Passion for leveraging automation and AI to improve user experience and operational efficiency
- Deep understanding of policy enforcement, content strategy, and system design
- Exceptional communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the strategic roadmap across all operational pillars—human support, automation, policy enforcement, systems, and content—to improve user experience and operational scalability
- Lead and inspire a high-performing team of managers, leads and specialists across support, content, policy enforcement, and technical operations
- Shape and evolve our Policy Enforcement function, including Trust & Safety and Legal workflows, to ensure safe and scalable operations
- Develop the content strategy across self-service channels (Help Center, Chatbot, Macros, etc.), ensuring scalability, localization, and SEO performance
- Lead the vision and execution for support system infrastructure, including taxonomy design, data governance, and architecture to power analytics, reporting, and operational insights
- Establish and track OKRs and KPIs aligned to company goals, leveraging dashboards and reporting to drive decisions and communicate progress
- Foster a culture of quality assurance and continuous improvement across all support channels
- Create feedback loops to capture user sentiment, CSAT, and product insights through tooling and strategic reporting infrastructure
- Partner with the Finance team to maintain and evolve our support financial model, enabling better investment decisions, cost visibility, and outcome tracking
- Scale support for a global user base, including localization strategies and time zone coverage
- Manage and strengthen partnerships with outsourcing partners and AI/automation vendors to enable cost-effective and high-impact operations
- Represent User Operations in cross-functional strategic discussions with Product, Legal, Finance, and Engineering
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with global support operations and 24/7 coverage models
- Background in analytics, reporting infrastructure, or data tools (e.g., BigQuery, Looker)
- Familiarity with Zendesk, Survicate, GPT-based automation, or similar platforms