Senior Product Ops Engineer

Plivo is a cloud communications platform that empowers businesses to connect, engage and interact with their customers with confidence. 

Plivo’s mission is to simplify business communications.  Thousands of businesses around the globe, including IBM, Workday, Wolters Kluver, and Splunk, rely on Plivo to power their voice and SMS communications on a global scale.

Founded in 2011, Plivo has over 300 employees remotely across US and India. Plivo was a part of YCombinator and is backed by prominent investors, including Andreessen Horowitz and Battery Ventures. 

Plivo has been profitable for the past 7 years, an unusual milestone for companies of this scale.  Plivo’s success has landed it among the leading global CPaaS (Communications Platform as a Service) companies and at the cutting edge of the CPaaS sector, which is estimated to grow to $16 billion by 2025.

Roles & responsibilities

• This role involved owning Product Operations responsibilities as part of one of Plivo’s Product Teams.

• Responsible for product delivery on requirements for various business functions for internal and external customers. 

• Manage relationships with Plivo partners/vendors and drive continuous improvement with them.

• Conduct regular business review meetings with Plivo partners / vendors and highlight issues and areas for improvement.

• Onboard new vendors/partners by owning the process end to end including technical, quality, and operational flows.

• Drive quality of product offering by constantly identifying, highlighting, and escalating any quality dips or issues observed internally or with partners/vendors.

• Maintain ownership of issues until resolved completely and show a high degree of customer focus.

• Understand technical concepts and issues and drive reliable technical solutions and a consistently exceptional service experience.

• Drive results on a number of key metrics by analyzing problem areas and proactively driving solutions

Skills required

• Must have minimum experience of 2 - 4 years in a vendor-facing support business.

• Good technical aptitude to ramp up on technical and business concepts.

• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills in the English language.

• Demonstrable problem solving and troubleshooting skills, logical thought process.

• Business data analysis and good skills in tools such as MS Excel and Google sheets.

• Working knowledge of SQL is preferred.

• Good to have an understanding of commerce platform concepts and procedures including online services, general billing, and commerce systems processes (e.g., invoicing, credit card transactions).

• Must have polished interaction and great interpersonal skills to interact with our global partners.

Perks & benefits

• Empowerment to plan and execute

• Medical and Life Insurance

• Open culture and working with a young and dynamic team

• Career advancement opportunitiesGenerous leave policy