Operations, social media, and customer experience leader with 15+ years of experience building high-performing teams, transforming emerging functions into strategic enterprise capabilities, and delivering measurable business results. Proven success leveraging customer insights, social listening, and AI-enabled solutions to inform executive decision-making across Marketing, Risk, Legal, and Operations while supporting 21,000+ client interactions annually. Recognized for driving operational excellence, strengthening customer advocacy, and reducing Executive Office escalation volume by 64% through scalable processes and effective management of 700+ high-risk client cases each year. Experienced in reputational and regulatory risk management, crisis escalation management, executive reporting, and cross-functional leadership.

Ian McCormick

Operations, social media, and customer experience leader with 15+ years of experience building high-performing teams, transforming emerging functions into strategic enterprise capabilities, and delivering measurable business results. Proven success leveraging customer insights, social listening, and AI-enabled solutions to inform executive decision-making across Marketing, Risk, Legal, and Operations while supporting 21,000+ client interactions annually. Recognized for driving operational excellence, strengthening customer advocacy, and reducing Executive Office escalation volume by 64% through scalable processes and effective management of 700+ high-risk client cases each year. Experienced in reputational and regulatory risk management, crisis escalation management, executive reporting, and cross-functional leadership.

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Operations, social media, and customer experience leader with 15+ years of experience building high-performing teams, transforming emerging functions into strategic enterprise capabilities, and delivering measurable business results. Proven success leveraging customer insights, social listening, and AI-enabled solutions to inform executive decision-making across Marketing, Risk, Legal, and Operations while supporting 21,000+ client interactions annually.

Recognized for driving operational excellence, strengthening customer advocacy, and reducing Executive Office escalation volume by 64% through scalable processes and effective management of 700+ high-risk client cases each year. Experienced in reputational and regulatory risk management, crisis escalation management, executive reporting, and cross-functional leadership.

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Work Experience

Operations Department Manager - Social Care & Client Advocacy at KeyBank
October 1, 2023 - June 30, 2026
Led KeyBank’s enterprise social care, client advocacy, and digital reputation management functions, managing customer escalations, executive office intake, social listening, sentiment intelligence, and cross-functional risk mitigation across digital channels. Transformed an unstructured function into a defined, high-performing operation with documented workflows, quality standards, and accountability frameworks. Built executive dashboards and sentiment intelligence across social and survey signals to inform proactive decisions. Managed high-risk escalations (executive contacts, survey flags, reputational events), de-escalating 700+ cases annually and reducing executive office case volume by 64%. Served as the negative media sentiment metric reporter and control owner for quarterly compliance testing, and partnered with workforce management to eliminate manual scheduling dependencies.
Sr. Leader, Social Care & Community Engagement at KeyBank
February 1, 2016 - October 1, 2023
Directed enterprise social media engagement, social listening, and client advocacy programs across Marketing, Risk, Legal, PR, and Contact Center to protect brand reputation and improve customer experience. Scaled coverage from 5 to 7 days per week, decreased response time by 50%, and reduced average handle time by 30%. Built KeyBank’s enterprise social listening program using Sprinklr, developing dashboards, KPI frameworks, and sentiment trend analysis. Delivered voice-of-client intelligence to executives and implemented tone-of-voice guidelines, response playbooks, and escalation frameworks adopted enterprise-wide. Led real-time crisis response through monitoring, auto-tagging rules, and high-risk term tracking while partnering with Legal/PR/Risk/Executive Client Relations on sensitive matters. Earned the Corporate Center Continuous Improvement Award (2020).
Social Media Care & Call Center Supervisor at TTI Floor Care North America
May 1, 2014 - February 1, 2016
Managed multi-platform social customer care across Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Authored 300+ how-to videos to reduce inbound call volume and improve self-service success. Mentored 15–20 social agents and call center teammates in brand voice consistency and delivered weekly social listening reports identifying product pain points and consumer trends.
Community Monitor & Customer Care Specialist (Progression) at TTI Floor Care North America
November 1, 2010 - May 1, 2014
Originated the company’s first social listening report aggregating organic feedback across Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and retail platforms. Escalated early-stage product complaints to QA and contributed to design and instructional improvements.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Organizational Leadership at Cleveland State University
January 11, 2030 - September 1, 2029
Associate of Arts, Business, Marketing at Cuyahoga Community College
January 11, 2030 - April 1, 2027
High School Diploma at Cleveland Heights High School
January 11, 2030 - July 12, 2026

Qualifications

Advanced Social Listening Certification - Sprinklr
January 1, 2016 - July 12, 2026
Corporate Center Continuous Improvement Award - KeyBank
January 1, 2020 - July 12, 2026

Industry Experience

Financial Services