Director of Operations

🏢 Gathern
📍 Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaFull-timeOn-site
📅 Posted: Yesterday🔄 Updated: Yesterday
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The Director of Operations will be responsible for leading Content Operations, Contact Centers, and Quality as a unified unit, with end-to-end ownership of key operational KPIs including customer satisfaction, complaints per reservation, guest rating, destination search conversion, occupancy of active listings, and unit activation. This role requires driving operational performance to be a predictable input to business growth. The Director will own the KPI tree, set and defend targets, and manage the monthly performance cycle, presenting findings to the Executive Committee. Key responsibilities include owning contact center service levels, improving first contact resolution through root-cause analysis and process redesign, managing capacity, and reducing cost to serve. The role also involves owning listing content completeness, photo quality, destination content readiness, and the unit onboarding and activation journey, ensuring quality assurance across guest and host journeys. Strong leadership is required to develop and structure teams, build capability, and partner effectively with Product, Data & Analytics to address operational defects and instrumentation gaps. The ideal candidate will be a transformation leader with a proven track record in operational excellence.
Required Skills
Other
accountabilityoperational rigorcross-functional influenceprocess redesign
Soft Skills & Professional Competencies
LeadershipRoot Cause AnalysisTeam Development
Information Technology
KPI ReportingQuality AssuranceSSIS
Business, Sales & Management
Performance ManagementWorkforce Planning
Productivity & Workplace Tools
RPA
Nice to have:
Engineering, Construction & Trades
Automation
Requirements
CORE BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES:Accountability: owns the number, not the activity.Operational rigour: root cause before remedy, measures before and after.People leadership: turns function leads into owners.Cross-functional influence: gets fixes prioritized outside their own reporting line. QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCEBachelor’s degree; a postgraduate qualification is an advantage.Ten or more years in operations, including five or more leading multi-function or multi-site teams in a marketplace,e-commerce platform.Proven turnaround of contact-center service levels, evidenced on first contact resolution, response time, andresolution time.A numerate operator who owns a KPI tree, sets targets, runs a monthly performance cycle and defends thenumbers to an executive audience. Experience as a transformation leaderProfessional fluency in Arabic and English.Preferred KSA or GCC market experience in a digital platform. Exposure to Lean, Six Sigma, DMAIC, or an equivalent process-improvement discipline. Experience introducing automation or AI-assisted tooling into a contact center
Description
JOB PURPOSE:Run Content Operations, Contact Centers, and Quality as one accountable unit and own the operational KPI set end-to-end — customer satisfaction, complaints per reservation, guest rating, destination search conversion, occupancy of active listings, and unit activation — so that operational performance becomes a managed, forecastable input to growth rather than a monthly report of outcomes.KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:Performance ownership:Own the operational KPI tree and deliver the monthly and annual targets for CSAT, complaints per 1,000reservations, guest rating, destination search conversion rate, occupancy of active listings, and unit activation rate.Set, defend and re-base targets with Strategy and the CSO, and ensure every KPI is instrumented, defined, andscoreable.Run the monthly Operations performance cycle and present results, causes and actions to the Executive Committee.Contact CentersOwn the service levels: first response time, first contact resolution, average resolution time and reopened tickets. Restore and hold first contact resolution at or above 80% through root-cause analysis of repeat-contact drivers,Agent enablement and process redesign.Manage capacity, scheduling, quality monitoring, and any outsourced service partners.Reduce cost to serve per booking without trading away resolution quality.Content OperationsOwn listing content completeness, photo quality and destination content readiness.Scale proven content interventions across the destination portfolio; the Abha pilot lifted click-through from 6.0% to11.8%.Set and enforce the host content standard with clear controls and consequences.Quality and unit readinessOwn the unit onboarding and activation journey: activation rate, time to activate, and time to first reservation withclear SLAClose the gap between activation and occupancy by working with Commercial and Product on destinationreadiness.Run the quality assurance framework across both the guest and the host journey.Leadership and cross-functionalLead, develop and structure the three function teams, and build capability and succession within them.Partner with Product on operational defects that require a product fix, sorting and visibility, and claims.Partner with Data & Analytics to close instrumentation gaps and automate departmental reporting.Transform the team to be the center of operational excellence
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