The Internet Archive is looking for an outstanding individual to lead our Patron Services team. The Patron Services team operates similarly to customer service, quality assurance, trust and safety or content moderation. Regardless of what you call it, the Manager of Patron Services is a big and interesting role.

This is a unique opportunity to have a major impact on the complete range of services provided by the Internet Archive, one of the world’s premier libraries and the 2nd most popular non-profit website.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead, support and grow a team of dedicated Patrons Services team members (currently 8 FTE’s all over the world and growing).

  • Represent the voice of the Patrons and champion their needs and desires throughout the organization.

  • Help the organization develop, and provide ultra responsive, friendly, helpful and multi-platform (e.g. phone, email, Web, Chat, Social Media) support services that will result in a general and public perception of the Internet Archive as a caring, responsive organization that is passionate about providing patrons with the highest quality of information and service.

  • Manage the creation, and evolution, of comprehensive documentation as well as text and video-based Patron facing support resources.

  • Identify and recommend ways to improve team performance through automation, tooling, rule, process, or policy changes.

  • Maintain strong domain knowledge of trust & safety, abuse, and risk, including new techniques and technologies available to fight abuse.

  • Work collaboratively across the organization to develop and implement policies and best practices related to content moderation, global compliance, patron feedback and expectations.

  • Provide Senior management, and others throughout the organization, with the insights and ideas necessary to provide the highest quality service with special attention to compliance requirements.

  • Embrace the Internet Archive’s mission and values.

 

Qualifications:

 

  • Infinitely curious, contagiously optimistic and of high integrity. 

  • Known for being an excellent team leader.

  • Comfortable with line interfaces, scripting and query languages and have a high level of overall technical proficiency (preferability have coding experience).

  • Expert level experience with an enterprise CRM platform like Zendesk or Salesforce.

  • Creative thinker, constantly searching for better tools, methods and processes to surpass Patron expectations.

  • Team Player who is committed to team success by mentoring each team member to achieve their highest personal potential.

  • Comfortable addressing sensitive, complex and nuanced problems. 

  • Consistent judgment, decision making and communications skills when dealing with sensitive subjects.

  • Widely read on current events, pop culture, social media, and tech news. 


Requirements:

 

  • University/College degree or equivalent practical experience

  • 3-5 years of experience in Trust & Safety operations, preferably at an internet or technology company

  • 5+ years in people management roles

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

  • Fantastic organizational and time management skills

  • Meticulous attention to detail

  • Strong decision-making and problem solving skills

Please note: You may need to support a non-traditional schedule, at times, including weekends, non-business hours and holidays.

About the Internet Archive: 

We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit digital research library with an ambitious mission: to provide universal access to all knowledge -- the books, music, images, audio, television, websites and software of our shared human culture. Our 90 engineers, archivists, librarians, and team members have built one of the top 300 websites in the world, https://archive.org/. Internet Archive digitizes thousands of books a day and collects a hundred million web pages a week. Over the past 25 years, our team has built one of the largest digital libraries in the world serving millions of people worldwide by working with hundreds of libraries, archives, museums, universities, and non-profits around the globe.

Benefits & Perks:

The Internet Archive is a North American remote first workplace and provides a comprehensive benefits package including; PTO, paid holidays, and medical benefits. Depending on where you live, we also provide these additional benefits; dental, vision, health savings accounts, flex spending accounts, commuter benefits, short term disability, long term disability and retirement programs.

At the Internet Archive, we believe we do our best work when our employees bring together diverse ideas. Members of all groups under represented in the tech industry and library world are strongly encouraged to apply. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.