Social Support Specialist III

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As a Social Support Specialist III on the Customer Experience team, you'll own the most complex, highest-visibility customer interactions across Coinbase's public and private social channels. You'll handle VIP, HNWI, influencer, and executive-level cases end to end, serve as the final quality gate for public replies drafted by L1 and L2 specialists, and act as the shift-monitor lead protecting queue health and SLA performance. This is a senior IC role where your judgment directly shapes how the world perceives Coinbase in real time.

What you'll do:

• Own end-to-end resolution of the highest-risk and highest-visibility cases across public and private social channels, including VIP, HNWI, influencer, and executive-level escalations.
• Serve as the final approver for high-visibility public replies drafted by L1 and L2 specialists, ensuring tone, accuracy, and brand alignment before publication.
• Detect emerging risks in real time, assess severity, and route issues to the appropriate partners (Comms, Legal, Policy, or Incident teams) with clear context and urgency framing.
• Lead shift-monitor operations by protecting queue health, preventing SLA misses, balancing workload across the team, and acting as the first point of contact for peer escalations.
• Raise the quality bar across the social support team through consistent mentoring, calibration of tone and judgment, and modeling best-in-class public communication.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 4+ years in social media support, community management, or public-facing customer operations, with at least 2 years handling escalated or high-risk cases for a regulated company.
• Proven ability to manage VIP or executive-level interactions with precision, discretion, and sound judgment under time pressure.
• Track record of real-time risk detection and cross-functional routing, including demonstrated experience partnering with Legal, Comms, or Compliance teams during live incidents.
• Experience leading queue or shift operations, including workload balancing, SLA monitoring, and peer coaching in a high-volume environment.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.