OPT Customer Service Lead Jobs
Customer Service Lead jobs on OPT require employers willing to sponsor or extend work authorization, which narrows the field but still leaves strong options. Many call centers, retail operations, and SaaS companies hire international talent for these roles. Your OPT clock starts on your EAD start date, so applying early matters.
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Newsweek Recognizes Sedgwick as America’s Greatest Workplaces National Top Companies
Certified as a Great Place to Work®
Fortune Best Workplaces in Financial Services & Insurance
REMOTE CUSTOMER SERVICE TEAM LEAD
SCHEDULE: Monday, Tuesday, Friday: 12:00 PM - 9:00 PM EST, Saturday, Sunday: 11:00 AM - 8:00 PM EST, Off: Wednesday & Thursday
PRIMARY PURPOSE: To provide exceptional customer support on Sedgwick's primary temporary housing line while serving as a working team lead responsible for daily operational oversight, task delegation, workflow management, service level performance, and frontline leadership. This role supports policyholders, adjusters, hotels, and partners with housing-related inquiries while assisting with inbound calls, hotel bookings and extensions, billing-related questions, and administrative functions. The Team Lead acts as the primary decision-maker during assigned shifts, supports escalation management, monitors real-time volume, staffing coverage, customer service performance, and team participation, and leads by example by actively performing all customer service duties alongside the team to ensure accuracy, timeliness, quality service, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction across all housing operations.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS and RESPONSIBILITIES
- Answers inbound calls from insureds/policyholders, adjusters, hotels, property managers, and internal partners in a professional, friendly, and compassionate manner.
- Serves as the primary point of contact for escalated housing-related inquiries, demonstrating advanced service, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills.
- Acts as the primary operational resource for associates by providing guidance, direction, coaching, and real-time support throughout assigned shifts.
- Leads by example by actively handling inbound calls, emails, customer inquiries, and housing-related tasks while balancing leadership responsibilities.
- Learns and maintains working knowledge of all departmental functions to accurately resolve issues and answer questions.
- Accurately and efficiently enters new housing claims into internal systems and ensures documentation standards are maintained.
- Monitors inbound email queues, Outlook mailboxes, carrier portals, web portals, and customer service communication channels to ensure inquiries, approvals, escalations, and new housing requests are worked timely and documented appropriately.
- Contacts insureds via text and email to confirm hotel extension needs and support housing-related requests.
- Extends hotel stays for clients currently in-house and books hotels when necessary.
- Updates and maintains the hotel database to ensure accuracy and uniformity.
- Retrieves hotel folios (receipts) from properties for completed and partial stays.
- Audits hotel folios and related claims for billing accuracy, compliance, and documentation.
- Verifies and maintains accurate data across internal systems and ensures customer interactions and claim activity are properly documented.
- Manages IVR call flow and routing based on real-time call volume. Monitors dashboards to track call volume, email volume, queue activity, service-level performance, staffing availability, workload distribution, and operational metrics; identifies backlogs, bottlenecks, and coverage concerns and takes appropriate action to maintain service standards.
- Delegates tasks and assigns work based on daily volume, staffing needs, operational priorities, and service-level expectations to ensure timely and equitable workload distribution.
- Maintains a regular pulse on current workload, staffing coverage, queue performance, and customer demand and adjusts workflow accordingly.
- Serves as the primary point of contact for team members regarding attendance, schedule questions, coverage concerns, workflow issues, IT matters, and day-to-day operational support needs.
- Monitors team participation, queue adherence, schedule compliance, break and lunch adherence, workflow execution, and productivity to ensure service expectations and coverage requirements are met.
- Coordinates staffing coverage by monitoring schedules, planned absences, holidays, and business demands and assists with schedule adjustments and coverage planning as needed.
- Assists with onboarding, training, coaching, mentoring, and development of team members while reinforcing departmental procedures, service standards, and performance expectations.
- Motivates team members to meet productivity and quality metrics while maintaining positive morale, accountability, and teamwork.
- Reviews customer interactions, claim documentation, and operational trends to identify opportunities for coaching, quality improvement, consistency, and enhanced customer service performance.
- Identifies operational challenges, workflow inefficiencies, service level risks, or customer concerns and implements solutions while escalating issues to leadership when necessary.
- Provides critical thinking and decision-making support to resolve complex housing issues.
- Serves as the sole onsite leader during weekend shifts, demonstrating initiative, reliability, accessibility, and accountability.
- Supports daily customer service operations through inbound calls, electronic communication, queue management, workload oversight, and operational leadership.
ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS and RESPONSIBILITIES
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Supports the organization's quality program(s).
- Participates in process improvement initiatives designed to improve service delivery, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education & Licensing
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university preferred.
Experience
Four (4) years of customer service, call center, housing, hospitality, insurance, or related business experience or equivalent combination of education and experience required. Prior leadership, team lead, supervisory, or coaching experience in a high-volume call center environment preferred.
Skills & Knowledge
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with an authentic, engaging and personable communication style
- Creative, solutions oriented approach to customer service while maintaining professionalism
- PC literate, including Microsoft Office products
- Strong leadership, coaching, and team-development abilities
- Strong problem solving, critical thinking, and escalation resolution skills
- Strong organizational and time management abilities in a high volume environment
- Ability to monitor service levels, queue performance, workload distribution, and operational metrics in a real time environment
- Ability to balance leadership responsibilities while maintaining personal production expectations
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise sound judgment
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Ability to drive accountability, workload distribution, and customer service excellence across a team environment
- Ability to handle multiple conflicting priorities
- Ability to meet or exceed Performance Competencies
- Collaborative team lead who motivates others and contributes to a positive, high-energy work environment
WORK ENVIRONMENT
When applicable and appropriate, consideration will be given to reasonable accommodations.
Mental: Clear and conceptual thinking ability; excellent judgment, troubleshooting, problem solving, analysis, and discretion; ability to handle work-related stress; ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously; and ability to meet deadlines
Physical: Computer keyboarding, travel as required
Auditory/Visual: Hearing, vision and talking
The statements contained in this document are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by a colleague assigned to this description. They are not intended to constitute a comprehensive list of functions, duties, or local variances. Management retains the discretion to add or to change the duties of the position at any time.
As required by law, Sedgwick provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in jurisdictions requiring pay transparency in job postings. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and cost of specific location. For the jurisdiction noted in this job posting only, the range of starting pay for this role is $21.00-$23.00/hr. Always accepting applications.
Sedgwick is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace.
If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, consider applying for it anyway! Sedgwick is building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace and recognizes that each person possesses a unique combination of skills, knowledge, and experience. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
By joining Sedgwick, you'll be part of something truly meaningful. It’s what our 33,000 colleagues do every day for people around the world who are facing the unexpected. We invite you to grow your career with us, experience our caring culture, and enjoy work-life balance. Here, there’s no limit to what you can achieve.
Newsweek Recognizes Sedgwick as America’s Greatest Workplaces National Top Companies
Certified as a Great Place to Work®
Fortune Best Workplaces in Financial Services & Insurance
REMOTE CUSTOMER SERVICE TEAM LEAD
SCHEDULE: Monday, Tuesday, Friday: 12:00 PM - 9:00 PM EST, Saturday, Sunday: 11:00 AM - 8:00 PM EST, Off: Wednesday & Thursday
PRIMARY PURPOSE: To provide exceptional customer support on Sedgwick's primary temporary housing line while serving as a working team lead responsible for daily operational oversight, task delegation, workflow management, service level performance, and frontline leadership. This role supports policyholders, adjusters, hotels, and partners with housing-related inquiries while assisting with inbound calls, hotel bookings and extensions, billing-related questions, and administrative functions. The Team Lead acts as the primary decision-maker during assigned shifts, supports escalation management, monitors real-time volume, staffing coverage, customer service performance, and team participation, and leads by example by actively performing all customer service duties alongside the team to ensure accuracy, timeliness, quality service, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction across all housing operations.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS and RESPONSIBILITIES
- Answers inbound calls from insureds/policyholders, adjusters, hotels, property managers, and internal partners in a professional, friendly, and compassionate manner.
- Serves as the primary point of contact for escalated housing-related inquiries, demonstrating advanced service, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills.
- Acts as the primary operational resource for associates by providing guidance, direction, coaching, and real-time support throughout assigned shifts.
- Leads by example by actively handling inbound calls, emails, customer inquiries, and housing-related tasks while balancing leadership responsibilities.
- Learns and maintains working knowledge of all departmental functions to accurately resolve issues and answer questions.
- Accurately and efficiently enters new housing claims into internal systems and ensures documentation standards are maintained.
- Monitors inbound email queues, Outlook mailboxes, carrier portals, web portals, and customer service communication channels to ensure inquiries, approvals, escalations, and new housing requests are worked timely and documented appropriately.
- Contacts insureds via text and email to confirm hotel extension needs and support housing-related requests.
- Extends hotel stays for clients currently in-house and books hotels when necessary.
- Updates and maintains the hotel database to ensure accuracy and uniformity.
- Retrieves hotel folios (receipts) from properties for completed and partial stays.
- Audits hotel folios and related claims for billing accuracy, compliance, and documentation.
- Verifies and maintains accurate data across internal systems and ensures customer interactions and claim activity are properly documented.
- Manages IVR call flow and routing based on real-time call volume. Monitors dashboards to track call volume, email volume, queue activity, service-level performance, staffing availability, workload distribution, and operational metrics; identifies backlogs, bottlenecks, and coverage concerns and takes appropriate action to maintain service standards.
- Delegates tasks and assigns work based on daily volume, staffing needs, operational priorities, and service-level expectations to ensure timely and equitable workload distribution.
- Maintains a regular pulse on current workload, staffing coverage, queue performance, and customer demand and adjusts workflow accordingly.
- Serves as the primary point of contact for team members regarding attendance, schedule questions, coverage concerns, workflow issues, IT matters, and day-to-day operational support needs.
- Monitors team participation, queue adherence, schedule compliance, break and lunch adherence, workflow execution, and productivity to ensure service expectations and coverage requirements are met.
- Coordinates staffing coverage by monitoring schedules, planned absences, holidays, and business demands and assists with schedule adjustments and coverage planning as needed.
- Assists with onboarding, training, coaching, mentoring, and development of team members while reinforcing departmental procedures, service standards, and performance expectations.
- Motivates team members to meet productivity and quality metrics while maintaining positive morale, accountability, and teamwork.
- Reviews customer interactions, claim documentation, and operational trends to identify opportunities for coaching, quality improvement, consistency, and enhanced customer service performance.
- Identifies operational challenges, workflow inefficiencies, service level risks, or customer concerns and implements solutions while escalating issues to leadership when necessary.
- Provides critical thinking and decision-making support to resolve complex housing issues.
- Serves as the sole onsite leader during weekend shifts, demonstrating initiative, reliability, accessibility, and accountability.
- Supports daily customer service operations through inbound calls, electronic communication, queue management, workload oversight, and operational leadership.
ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS and RESPONSIBILITIES
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Supports the organization's quality program(s).
- Participates in process improvement initiatives designed to improve service delivery, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education & Licensing
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university preferred.
Experience
Four (4) years of customer service, call center, housing, hospitality, insurance, or related business experience or equivalent combination of education and experience required. Prior leadership, team lead, supervisory, or coaching experience in a high-volume call center environment preferred.
Skills & Knowledge
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with an authentic, engaging and personable communication style
- Creative, solutions oriented approach to customer service while maintaining professionalism
- PC literate, including Microsoft Office products
- Strong leadership, coaching, and team-development abilities
- Strong problem solving, critical thinking, and escalation resolution skills
- Strong organizational and time management abilities in a high volume environment
- Ability to monitor service levels, queue performance, workload distribution, and operational metrics in a real time environment
- Ability to balance leadership responsibilities while maintaining personal production expectations
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise sound judgment
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Ability to drive accountability, workload distribution, and customer service excellence across a team environment
- Ability to handle multiple conflicting priorities
- Ability to meet or exceed Performance Competencies
- Collaborative team lead who motivates others and contributes to a positive, high-energy work environment
WORK ENVIRONMENT
When applicable and appropriate, consideration will be given to reasonable accommodations.
Mental: Clear and conceptual thinking ability; excellent judgment, troubleshooting, problem solving, analysis, and discretion; ability to handle work-related stress; ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously; and ability to meet deadlines
Physical: Computer keyboarding, travel as required
Auditory/Visual: Hearing, vision and talking
The statements contained in this document are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by a colleague assigned to this description. They are not intended to constitute a comprehensive list of functions, duties, or local variances. Management retains the discretion to add or to change the duties of the position at any time.
As required by law, Sedgwick provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in jurisdictions requiring pay transparency in job postings. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and cost of specific location. For the jurisdiction noted in this job posting only, the range of starting pay for this role is $21.00-$23.00/hr. Always accepting applications.
Sedgwick is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace.
If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, consider applying for it anyway! Sedgwick is building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace and recognizes that each person possesses a unique combination of skills, knowledge, and experience. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship in Customer Service Lead
Target companies with a history of H-1B sponsorship
Customer service leadership roles appear in H-1B visa filings at large retail, tech, and BPO companies. Employers who have sponsored before are far more likely to do it again. Prioritize these over companies with no sponsorship track record.
Frame your degree as a qualification, not a footnote
H-1B sponsorship for Customer Service Lead roles requires the position to qualify as a specialty occupation. A degree in business, communications, or psychology strengthens the case. Highlight how your education directly informs your leadership approach.
Apply before your OPT end date, not after
H-1B cap-subject petitions are filed in April for an October 1 start. If your OPT expires before October, you may need a STEM extension bridge. Know your exact EAD expiration date and build your timeline backward from there.
Pursue STEM OPT extension if your degree qualifies
If your undergraduate or graduate degree is in a STEM field, a 24-month extension adds significant runway. Some Customer Service Lead roles at tech or data-driven companies can support a STEM-designated job function. Confirm this with your DSO early.
Be upfront about your authorization status with employers
Disclosing your OPT status early filters out employers who cannot sponsor and saves time on both sides. It also signals professionalism. Recruiters at sponsoring companies deal with authorization questions regularly and will not be surprised.
Negotiate a start date that aligns with your EAD
Your EAD card must be in hand before your first day of work. Do not accept a start date earlier than your EAD start date, even if the employer is eager. A brief delay in onboarding is far better than an unauthorized work violation.
Customer Service Lead OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Can F-1 OPT students legally work as a Customer Service Lead?
Yes, as long as your employment is directly related to your field of study and you have a valid EAD. Customer Service Lead roles typically connect to degrees in business administration, communications, marketing, or a related field. Your DSO can confirm whether a specific position qualifies under your OPT authorization before you accept an offer.
Do Customer Service Lead jobs typically offer H-1B sponsorship?
Some do, but it depends heavily on the employer and how the role is structured. Large employers in tech, SaaS, and enterprise retail are more likely to sponsor than smaller businesses. The role also needs to qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B eligibility, which generally requires a bachelor's degree in a specific field. Migrate Mate lists Customer Service Lead roles from employers with a demonstrated sponsorship history, so you can filter for realistic opportunities.
What happens if my OPT expires before I receive an H-1B approval?
If your OPT expires after April 1 and your H-1B petition is pending under cap-gap, you may be able to continue working through September 30. If you have a STEM-eligible degree, applying for the 24-month extension before your initial OPT ends gives you more runway. Talk to your DSO as soon as you receive an H-1B receipt notice to understand exactly what your cap-gap coverage includes.
Is a Customer Service Lead role considered a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
It depends on how the employer defines the position. A generic customer service role without a degree requirement is unlikely to qualify. However, a Customer Service Lead role requiring a bachelor's degree in business, communications, or a related field, with responsibilities that draw directly on that education, has a stronger case. Employers with experienced immigration counsel can structure the job description to support the specialty occupation argument.
How can I find Customer Service Lead jobs that are open to OPT students?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for international students on OPT and similar work authorization. You can browse Customer Service Lead listings from employers who understand visa sponsorship and are open to hiring F-1 students. Filtering by OPT-friendly employers saves time compared to applying broadly and getting screened out during recruiter calls because of your status.