NavanOperations Manager — Routing, Automation & AI
May. 2022● Own the operational vision and roadmap for global chat and voice routing, partnering with Product and Engineering to improve case distribution, SLAs, and scalability.
● Lead cross-functional initiatives across omni-channel support (chat, voice, email), improving customer experience and operational efficiency.
● Drive AI and automation initiatives across customer support workflows, reducing manual handling and improving deflection and resolution rates.
● Lead the development of an AI-powered Quality Assurance automation engine for customer interactions.
● Design datasets, prompts, and evaluation frameworks to train an internal LLM assessing agent performance at scale.
● Build SQL pipelines and dbt data models to operationalise QA scoring, validation, and reporting.
● Create and maintain dashboards and metrics used to guide operational strategy and executive decision-making.
● Act as the primary Operations stakeholder for Product, Engineering, Knowledge, and Support teams.
● Oversee governance and quality of global Operations Knowledge Base content.
● Design internal tools and Jira workflows to improve bug triage, prioritisation, and operational feedback loops.
Main achievements:
● Designed and implemented a new global chat and call routing model, reducing average handling time and wait times while increasing CSAT.
● Built an executive-level ThoughtSpot dashboard that became the single source of truth for Global Operations performance.
● Enabled AI-driven chat automation now handling ~95% of chats from entry and contributing to ~30% true chat deflection.
● Launched AI-powered QA automation, significantly reducing manual QA effort and enabling scalable, data-driven performance evaluation.