Director, Workforce Planning & Operational Optimization

Who We Are The Farmer’s Dog was born from a mission to change the landscape of pet health, providing dogs and their humans with honest, smart, and simple care. We’re starting by radically improving the $90 billion pet food industry, replacing bags of highly-processed pellets with a personalized subscription service that sends complete and balanced, freshly-made dog food directly to customers’ doors. Our ultimate goal is to create innovative, delightful and personalized experiences across all aspects of pet care, and we believe our direct-to-consumer business model, holistic approach to growth, and dynamic culture uniquely position us to shepherd this backwards industry into the future. To date, The Farmer’s Dog has delivered over 1 billion meals nationwide and raised over $150M in funding to help us build a company as healthy as the dogs who are eating those meals. Join us as we continue to develop ways of bringing peace of mind to customers, health to their companions, and much-needed change to the way people feed and care for their pets. #LongLiveDogs What We Stand For and Where You’ll Come In Are you a forward-thinking leader looking to join a rapidly growing organization? Are you passionate about building and developing teams and processes? Do you enjoy working for an organization with an impactful mission and great culture? Then this may be the opportunity for you! We are looking for a Director, Workforce Planning & Operational Optimization leader to join our growing team! In this role, you will lead the Capacity Planning and Workforce Management functions, our internal Quality Assurance teams, and also lead strategic initiatives to improve overall operational performance and efficiency within our Customer Care department, while reporting directly to the SVP of Customer Care. We are an in-office company and this role will be based in Boca Raton, FL. This role will directly interact with key business leaders, supporting a midsize customer care organization. A successful leader must have skills to influence at an executive level, and the ability to articulate end-to-end capacity planning and workforce plans, lead process improvement, and other strategic initiatives. You'll be accountable for establishing capacity models and processes that support business leaders’ efforts to achieve consistent service performance, accommodate new initiatives, deliver budget goals, and make operational decisions based on timely relevant information. This role will also help lead our QA process as we look to leverage AI technology to improve internal operations performance and customer outcomes. In addition, be a strategic thought partner when it comes to identifying continuous improvement opportunities to drive efficiency and effectiveness. Partnering with other key stakeholders across the company will be critical to drive operational improvements and optimization. One Team: We don’t think of ourselves as “Acquisition Marketers”, “Engineers”, “Data Analysts”, or “Product Managers”. Beyond denoting skill sets and areas of expertise, we don’t think departments matter. We’d rather align ourselves to the goals we’re working to achieve and make sure we have necessary subject matter expertise to drive meaningful impact. We strive to orient ourselves around customer problems TOGETHER – getting the right people, with the right context, in the right rooms/Zooms to solve problems holistically. We are skeptical about everything and precious about nothing: Ideas can and should come from anywhere, and we aren’t tied to our own. We proactively source input. We talk to our customers and leads regularly and are quick to change course if we know there’s a better or more impactful way to solve problems. We consider the customer journey in all of our decisions: We know that no interaction exists in a silo and therefore understand how important every single one is. We ensure our strategy sets prospective and new customers up for success and drives long-term retention. We answer questions and address problems early and proactively. We understand the value of different channels, initiatives, and messages and know how to articulate impact and advocate for prioritization holistically. We Execute For Impact: We don’t subscribe to “best practices” or “industry KPIs”. We’re uninterested in how we compare to “benchmarks”; instead we orient ourselves around being the best we can possibly be. Similarly, we don’t subscribe to rigid or classical expectations of roles – i.e. acquisition is hyper-focused on improving customer retention and experience. We Are Focused and Work Without Assumption : We are not beholden to ideas. We have goals and believe everything beyond that is a series of hypotheses to validate. To that end, we seek to work in sequence and not in parallel. We constantly ask ourselves, “what’s the most important hypothesis I should be working on right now? How do I confirm or reject that hypothesis as fast as possible?”. We rarely have…