Customer Support Lead

Remote from: Canada, USA
Category: Customer Success
Job type: Full Time,
Opening date: 13 Mar 2023
Closing date: 12 May 2023
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Discover your mind’s limitless potential.

The Customer Support Team at Elevate Labs operates like a fast-paced, agile startup, and we’re looking for an energized, high-performing customer support agent to join the team. This is a unique opportunity to use your customer service experience, decision-making, and creative problem-solving skills to shape the trajectory of our new and existing ventures. We’re looking for someone who treats customers as part of their community, never settles for good enough, and never stops learning and teaching. This role requires balancing agility with customer obsession, all while managing tight timelines and constantly evolving business needs.

This is a full-time, fully remote position anywhere within North America.

We cater to the needs of the business by being available when our customers need us most. With that in mind, to be considered for this role, you must be able to work one or both weekend days and holidays, and be comfortable with a periodically changing schedule.

How You’ll Make an Impact Here:

Be an unwavering customer advocate via inbound email and social-channel customer support, upholding our mission of world-class service
Strive for one-touch resolution by root cause analysis, and prioritizing and multitasking a large volume of inbound contacts with attention to detail and ownership
Identify patterns in customer reports and investigate, test, and reproduce technical issues with medium complexity while maintaining customer satisfaction and Elevate’s brand image
Understand and meet expected personal metrics such as: Volume, Handle Time, Time to Resolution, Customer Satisfaction Rating, and more
Provide peer-to-peer support and coaching for new hires, as well as mentorship for junior colleagues by leading with patience, empathy, and a deep understanding of our products and customer needs
Question the status quo and proactively highlight areas where we can do better to help drive process and policy decisions
Help keep internal and external knowledge bases and documentation up-to-date

Qualifications:

3+ years of customer support experience
2+ years of experience supporting educational apps and/or software, or other technical support
Experience as a team lead and/or desire to develop as a people leader
Experience with Zendesk or similar customer management tools
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a strong attention to detail
Intellectual curiosity alongside a passion for teaching and leading others – if you don’t know the answer, you’ll find out
The ability to balance pace and precision, multitasking and prioritizing urgent needs

Bonus:

Experience working in a fully remote work environment with teammates operating across various time zones
Experience working for a startup or other fast-growth company

Benefits:

Competitive salary and equity
Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
Distributed team flexibility, with a home-office stipend and co-working reimbursement
Annual learning, wellness, and travel stipends
Generous PTO, flexible sick leave, and paid parental leave
Annual company meetup in fun location