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Karen Mayorga

Karen Mayorga

VP, Product & Customer Excellence

45 years old
Driving License
France
Employed Unavailable
I am a passionate, creative, and visionary leader with a solid International background in developing, directing, and sustaining multicultural high-performance work teams.
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  • Unified Support and Maintenance into a single, high-impact organization of + 30 People (14 Software Engineers, 10 Product Support Analysts, a Support Operations Lead, 1 Staff Engineer, 1 Product Manager, 2 Support Managers, and 2 Engineering Managers) across Nantes, Boston, Sydney, and London.
  • Built a customer-centric organization dedicated to exceptional service quality, improved product reliability, and seamless user experiences across all regions.
  • Drove operational excellence resulting in a 25% improvement in SLA adherence, stronger process consistency, and faster issue resolution.
  • Reduced the mental load for Product Support Analysts through better workload distribution, improved tooling, and clearer specialization.
  • Strengthened cross-team collaboration and alignment between Product, Engineering, and Support, increasing organizational impact and shared ownership of customer outcomes.
  • Championed best practices and led the implementation of the company’s first Customer Support product, elevating both service quality and product feedback loops.
  • Led and empowered global Support teams across Boston, Nantes, and Sydney to deliver a seamless, world-class customer experience, fostering strong cross-regional collaboration and a culture of continuous growth and excellence.
  • Drove strategic integration of processes, tools, and expertise to ensure high-quality support across all Akeneo products while maintaining a rational and scalable team structure.
  • Introduced a Support Operations Lead function, implementing initiatives that reduced team workload by 20%, optimized workflows, and ensured a healthy workload balance for Support Analysts.
  • Enhanced operational efficiency and expertise alignment, contributing to Gartner’s 2023 recognition of Akeneo as Best Customer Support in our industry.
  • Championed a people-first leadership approach, ensuring teams felt inspired, supported, and equipped to deliver exceptional service across all time zones.
    • Successfully established Support presence in Boston and Sydney, enabling true follow-the-sun coverage and significantly improving global response times and customer experience for 800+ clients across regions.
  • Built, led, and developed a high-performing global Support organization comprising Product Support Analysts, Support Engineers, and Team Leads across Nantes, Sydney, and Boston.
  • Drove strategic direction and team organization by defining clear objectives, aligning workflows, and enhancing operational efficiency, resulting in a 20% increase in SLA adherence.
  • Structured the Support organization by functional and technical expertise, improving cross-team collaboration and accelerating request resolution times.
  • Ensured customer satisfaction remained at the core of all support activities, achieving a consistent 4.7/5 CSAT score.
  • Managed a distributed team of 17 employees, including three direct managers, fostering leadership growth and team cohesion across multiple time zones
    • Management of incoming requests for the Enterprise version from customers, partners, and integrators.
    • Follow-up the bug fixes implementation in close collaboration with the Production teams (Product owners and Maintenance). - Planning of production deployment of new patches.
    • Definition and execution of functional tests to ensure the quality of the patches provided. - Suggestion of product improvements. - Improvement and maintenance of the functional documentation and Knowledge Base (FAQ).
    • Coordinate cross-team communications with the internal stakeholders (customers, integrators, Professional Services teams, Customer Success, Channel Managers)
    • Management of optimization projects for Support activity to improve responsiveness and incident processing time.
    • Participation in the improvement of internal processes with the maintenance and support teams.
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    • Implementation and enrichment of products in the Euronet distribution system according to the supplier's specifications and market expectations.
      • Product database management.
      • Support and communication of product information internally and externally.
      • Ensure the quality of the product information distribution on all channels (web services, front office)
      • Treatment of distribution anomalies (after sales)
      • Internal communication of new products information, developments, and promotions
      • Setting up promotions and diversifying the product portfolio.
    • Plannification and animation of meetings with stakeholders and clients.
    • Participation in the improvement of offshore processes with the teams of developers in India (Travel to Mumbai).
    • Contribution to the recruitment of the team members (interviews in English and Spanish).
    • Onboarding and implementation of functional and technical training for the newcomers.
    • Participation in the project's feature teams: Sprint, planning, backlog, retrospective, and demos.
    • Follow-up of the resolutions and improvement requests of the application in close collaboration with different roles: Analysts, developers, product owners, testers, networks, database, application, or integration.
    • Monitoring of applications on OSS44, management of incidents, and planned operations in production.
    • Testing of new releases and patches in test environments.Technical environments: XML, SQL, logs analysis with Nagios. Outlook, Lync, JIRA Service desk, OSS44, DET, E2Reporting, LDAP, Putty, Socrates, Cognos and Drupal
    • Coordination and follow-up of the enhancement requests and bugs' resolutions in close communication with the different teams: Analysts, developers, networks, DBMS, application, or integration teams.
    • Testing of new releases and patches in test environments.Technical environment: XML, SQL, logs monitoring with Nagios. Outlook, Lync, JIRA Service desk, OSS44, DET, E2Reporting, LDAP, Putty, and Socrates.
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    • Implementation, maintenance, and enhancement of interfaces for the OPTIMAINT CMMS (Computer-Assisted Maintenance Management).
    • Analysis and drafting of the functional specifications and user manuals.
    • Application testing and user support (Spanish and French).Technical environments: VB6, XML, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Access, SourceS
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    • Technical assistance and support for the project of La Société Génerale on the specific software of VPC NOVADIS (coded paper and electronic transfers) and SGTRUST Services.- Monitoring applications and hardware - Analysis of incidents and intervention with application teams and technical operations.- Acceptance tests of the 3D secure payment application.- Incident management monitoring with support in English, French, and Spanish.
    • Coordination and implementation of the platform migration to Maximo (IBM Computerized Maintenance Management System software ).
    • Database modeling and migration using SQL Advantage and Oracle.
    • Hewlett-Packard software support engineer for telecommunications services.- Quality Assurance Professional: Responsible for the accurate use of support processes following the ISO 9000 standard.
    • Technical environment: Davox, Sat Plus, Sat 2.5, Gestel, Gescliente, Office Line Communicator, Outlook (Express 4.0/5.0/6 and 2003) with POP3 and Exchange servers, Intranet, Wireless, RAS, LAN