Customer Support Team Lead, Internal Escalations (Messaging)

About the Role

Customer Support Team Leads are skilled people leaders with a dedication to drive continuous process improvement. They directly manage and motivate 10-15 Customer Support Specialists responsible for providing the highest quality care in the smartest, most efficient way possible. Customer Support teams are at the forefront of our business, answering our community's questions and tending to their needs!

What You'll Do

• Directly lead, motivate, and develop Customer Support Specialists to deliver on operational KPIs within a time-sensitive and demanding environment
• Offer guidance and support to your team by being present and approachable on the floor, answering questions, hosting weekly 1-on-1 and team meetings, and providing real-time feedback
• Audit your team's performance through ongoing analysis and use insights to highlight opportunities for improvement, additional training, or further review
• Ensure team compliance with company policies, including but not limited to attendance, dress, and behavior; document and escalate issues as required
• Create and distribute performance reports to management, senior leadership, and other stakeholders
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME)-identify trending issues and guide Customer Support Specialists do the same in their daily work

Basic Qualifications

• Supervisory or leadership experience-You have a demonstrated ability to set team goals, drive accountability, develop talent, and stay calm through challenging situations
• Maintain a positive, can-do demeanor and encourage others to do the same
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills - You establish trust and effective working relationships with internal and external partners
• Strong time-management and organizational habits-You prioritize work effectively and drive multiple projects to completion at once
• Willingness to work weekends, occasional holidays, and outside a standard 8 to 5 shift schedule

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing people in customer support or the service industry, or other high-volume production environments
• Bachelor's in Business, Communications, English, or Journalism

About the Team

This Customer Support Team Lead role sits within Uber's Center of Excellence (COE) in Chicago, IL. COEs are contact management centers dedicated to providing world-class customer support to Uber customers (riders, drivers, couriers, eaters, restaurants, etc.). Uber relies on the COEs to provide support for our community's toughest issue types, as well as to incubate support modalities and processes for new products and services. COEs pioneer how Uber manages support for customers around the globe.

For Chicago, IL-based roles: The base hourly rate amount for this role is USD$30.80 per hour.

You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.

Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuels progress. What moves us, moves the world - let's move it forward, together.

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.

Client-provided location(s): Chicago, IL

Job ID: Uber-153824

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-01-27T19:55:18