Posted 24 days ago
Performance Excellence Lead, Support Operations (Canada , Americas)
@ Shopify
Canada
SIGNALS
Overview
Shopify is hiring a Performance Excellence Lead for its Support Operations team, covering Canada and the Americas. The role is an individual contributor position that sets performance targets for Support Delivery, runs 6-week delivery sprints, and turns support data into prioritized fixes.
Responsibilities:
- Set measurable targets for Support Delivery and merchant experience
- Run 6-week sprints to deliver fixes
- Analyze support and operational data to prioritize work
- Build frameworks and playbooks for the broader support team
- Use AI tooling to speed up workflows
Requirements summary:
- Strong data and analytical skills
- Project management and sprint delivery experience
- Demonstrated AI use with concrete impact
- Coaching and certification program experience
- Strong stakeholder management and written communication
Tools & skills
Source and dates
Source type not verified · apify-linkedin
- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-21
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-14
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-14
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | Customer service |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
Summary and details written by AI from the posting; the employer’s posting is the authority.
Shopify
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 6 |
Job description
About The Role
About Performance Excellence
Shopify's mission is to make commerce better for everyone. The Performance Excellence team sits within Support Operations and plays a direct role in that mission by holding a high bar for what an excellent merchant support experience looks like, and then actually moving the needle toward it. We operate like a product build team: small, focused, and shipping in fast cycles.
About The Role
This is an individual contributor, hands-on, outcomes-first role for someone who is equally comfortable reading the data, framing the problem, and rallying people to ship the fix in weeks, not quarters. Our stakeholders are Support Delivery, and the person in this seat doesn't hand off recommendations and hope someone acts on them, they carry the issue all the way to a fix that's live and holding.
There's real room here to shape how support performs at Shopify, and to be the one accountable for whether it actually gets better.
What You'll Do
Opportunity is not evenly distributed. Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. We propel entrepreneurs and enterprises to scale the heights of their potential. Since 2006, we’ve grown to over 8,300 employees and generated over $1 trillion in sales for millions of merchants in 175 countries.
This is life-defining work that directly impacts people’s lives as much as it transforms your own. This is putting the power of the few in the hands of the many, is a future with more voices rather than fewer, and is creating more choices instead of an elite option.
About You
Moving at our pace brings a lot of change, complexity, and ambiguity—and a little bit of chaos. Shopifolk thrive on that and are comfortable being uncomfortable. That means Shopify is not the right place for everyone.
Before you apply, consider if you can:
About Performance Excellence
Shopify's mission is to make commerce better for everyone. The Performance Excellence team sits within Support Operations and plays a direct role in that mission by holding a high bar for what an excellent merchant support experience looks like, and then actually moving the needle toward it. We operate like a product build team: small, focused, and shipping in fast cycles.
About The Role
This is an individual contributor, hands-on, outcomes-first role for someone who is equally comfortable reading the data, framing the problem, and rallying people to ship the fix in weeks, not quarters. Our stakeholders are Support Delivery, and the person in this seat doesn't hand off recommendations and hope someone acts on them, they carry the issue all the way to a fix that's live and holding.
There's real room here to shape how support performs at Shopify, and to be the one accountable for whether it actually gets better.
What You'll Do
- Own a clear point of view on high performance in Support Delivery and merchant experience, and translate it into measurable targets.
- Assemble and drive work in 6-week sprints: scope the outcome, pull in the right people, and deliver with urgency.
- Turn support and operational data into decisions: find where merchant experience is breaking down, quantify the opportunity, and prioritize accordingly.
- Use AI tooling to compress your own workflow and to design faster, smarter ways for the team to work.
- Balance a light strategic frame with strong tactical execution: you set direction, but you're measured on what actually ships.
- Partner closely with Support Delivery as your primary stakeholders to align on priorities and outcomes.
- Build frameworks and playbooks that the broader support team actually uses: your solutions should make everyone better, not just the people you work with directly.
- Carry merchant evidence into wider org conversations: use what you're seeing in support data to inform product and operational decisions beyond your immediate team.
- A strong instinct for what an excellent merchant support experience looks like, and the ability to build a deep understanding of performance in a support delivery organization quickly.
- Strong stakeholder management: the ability to translate vision and garner buy-in, while working with stakeholders to understand the business realities at play.
- Excellent project management: proven ability to stand up a team quickly, run tight sprints, and land outcomes on short timelines.
- Strong data and analytical skills: comfortable working directly with data to find, size, and defend priorities.
- Demonstrable experience leveraging AI to do your work faster and better, with concrete examples of the impact.
- An understanding of what good coaching looks like in a support context; ability to run certification programs and translate a framework into something people actually use.
- A bias for action and the people skills to get others moving with you.
- A track record of building solutions others adopt, not just fixing what's in front of you, but establishing the standard others follow. Comfortable challenging how things have always been done when the evidence points to a better path.
- The ability to transfer what you know through documentation, coaching, or modelling. You make the people around you sharper.
- Clear, direct written communication: you write to get decisions made, not to cover yourself.
Opportunity is not evenly distributed. Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. We propel entrepreneurs and enterprises to scale the heights of their potential. Since 2006, we’ve grown to over 8,300 employees and generated over $1 trillion in sales for millions of merchants in 175 countries.
This is life-defining work that directly impacts people’s lives as much as it transforms your own. This is putting the power of the few in the hands of the many, is a future with more voices rather than fewer, and is creating more choices instead of an elite option.
About You
Moving at our pace brings a lot of change, complexity, and ambiguity—and a little bit of chaos. Shopifolk thrive on that and are comfortable being uncomfortable. That means Shopify is not the right place for everyone.
Before you apply, consider if you can:
- Care deeply about what you do and about making commerce better for everyone
- Excel by seeking professional and personal hypergrowth
- Keep up with an unrelenting pace (the week, not the quarter)
- Be resilient and resourceful in face of ambiguity and thrive on (rather than endure) change
- Bring critical thought and opinion
- Put AI agents and tools to work on the tasks they're built for, and focus on the work only humans can do
- Embrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forward
- Work digital-first for your daily work
Journal
Only you can see this. Kept on this device, and in your account when you sign in.