Director, Customer Engagement & Agent Platforms

Best Egg, now part of Barclays, is a market-leading, tech-enabled financial platform helping people build financial confidence through innovative lending solutions and financial health tools. As a Barclays company, we combine the agility and customer focus of a fintech with the global reach, stability, and purpose of a leading financial institution—working together to create a better financial future for our customers and communities.

At Best Egg, you’ll find a culture grounded in our core values—putting people first, creating clarity, delivering with excellence —enhanced by Barclays’ commitment to integrity, inclusion, and long-term impact. Together, we empower our colleagues to challenge, innovate, and take ownership while making a meaningful difference in people’s financial lives.

With the strength of Barclays behind us, we offer expanded opportunities for growth, development, and career mobility across a global organization—while continuing to build the products and experiences that make Best Egg unique.

We’re looking for collaborative, curious problem-solvers who are excited to make an impact and grow with us.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.

We are seeking a Director, Customer Engagement & Agent Platforms to lead the ownership, management, and optimization of the systems that enable customer engagement and agent execution across operations.

This role sits within Operations and is responsible for ensuring that customer engagement and agent platforms effectively support business strategy, operational workflows, and performance outcomes across originations, servicing, and collections.

The role focuses on platform ownership, configuration, and continuous improvement, not software engineering or direct frontline management.

• Manage relationships with platform vendors and partners (e.g., Zendesk, messaging platforms, telephony providers)
• Ensure vendor performance aligns with operational needs and priorities
• Evaluate and implement enhancements or new capabilities as appropriate
• Serve as the operations and / or lead for vendor lifecycle management, including platform evaluations, migrations, contract renewals, and ongoing vendor performance management

• Provide strategic oversight of workforce management and dialer operations to ensure alignment with platform strategy and business demand
• Partner with Agent Systems & Operations leadership to coordinate capacity, execution, and system behavior
• Ensure alignment between workforce planning, platform configuration, and customer engagement strategy
• Support development of scalable execution models, including BPO-supported intraday operations