IT Support Technician
Rocket Travel is looking for an IT Support Technician to join our team. This role will be focused on managing our IT needs and SaaS services along with assisting employees with technical support. You will work with our People Operations and Systems/Engineering teams to assist with our growing workforce.
The Rocket Travel team is based in Chicago’s West Loop. We are a hybrid team and have a flexible work schedule. Though this role will require a presence in the office, partial remote is possible. This role will report to the Director of Engineering.
Rocket Travel is a place where you:
- Work with a group of intrinsically motivated people with a track record for building successful new businesses from scratch.
- Embody curiosity, community, and accountability. We live and build products by these values every day.
- Own decisions and take action that can be implemented in a matter of days (or hours).
- Get inspired and encouraged to vacation faster, with an annual vacation stipend.
- Receive a competitive compensation package, including bonus, 401k with match, flexible vacation time, maternity and paternity benefits, health, and dental insurance.
- Total Compensation is based on experience - Salary: $70k - $90k, Bonus: 10% - 15%
- Can have a flexible work schedule. We have an amazing office in the Chicago West Loop, which this position is based in. We have a hybrid team and a flexible work environment.
- Share your passion for travel with equally adventurous teammates.
- Work within the largest online travel company in the world. Rocket Travel creates B2C and B2B2C travel products and is part of Booking Holdings (BKNG). We have many worldwide partners and a diversified business. Despite the world’s current situation, Booking Holdings has been rated the healthiest company in travel, and Rocket itself is already seeing travel demand surpass pre-pandemic levels
As an IT Support Technician, you will:
- Assist Rocket employees with laptop issues, account troubles, and general IT support
- Manage Google GSuite organization access and accounts
- Manage access control for various SaaS services
- Take ownership of technical onboarding and offboarding processes
- Purchase and setup laptops for new employees (MacOS & Windows 10)
- Maintain inventory of devices
- Maintain in-office devices (Chromeboxes, Meet hardware, etc.)
- Maintain conferencing equipment for our meeting rooms
- Troubleshoot office network issues
About you:
- Ability to create your own path at a fast growing company
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively
- Passionate about learning and helping your teammates learn
- Experience administering access for SaaS services
- Experience administering a router and maintaining network rules
- Considering security when making changes or adding something new for employees
About Rocket Travel
We make travel more rewarding than anyone else
Rocket Travel awards customers for booking travel through our products, allowing people to earn or use loyalty benefits from their favorite loyalty programs.
Our journey
We began in 2013 with the same goal of making travel even more rewarding. This started with our bespoke Rocketmiles website, earning travelers their favorite airline loyalty miles for hotel bookings, and every year since, we’ve advanced our goal.
We now partner with over 60 loyalty programs that travelers can choose from, we build unique partner-branded travel sites, we offer the ability to earn and redeem loyalty rewards, we sit within Booking Holdings—the most experienced Group of travel companies in the world—and we continually grow the number of ways that people can book travel through us, from stays to cars and more.
Travel constantly evolves, opening additional opportunities to create rewarding experiences, and we intend to be at the forefront of building and innovating on those for travelers worldwide.
A diverse and global team
Our teammates work across the globe, in person and remotely. We have offices in Chicago, NYC, Bangkok, Bogota, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, and Cebu. No matter where people work, our main team-building goal is to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. We do that with a Diversity and Inclusion Committee, setting DEI hiring goals, investing in employee retention, and conducting regular team training that fosters collaboration and morale.
All of these efforts help ensure that we’re promoting a supportive workplace, where people are motivated to grow professionally and build rewarding travel experiences together.
Note on general employment requirements
Candidates should be authorized to accept employment in the US from any employer, should be willing to start within three weeks of accepting an offer, and should be able to work the same daily working hours as our Chicago office.
A final word
If the idea of working within an environment that promotes accountability, curiosity, and community to build reward travel products sounds motivating to you, we would love to hear from you—even if you’re unable to meet 100% of the job requirements. We never expect people to have all of the answers, as long as they’re willing and able to learn and grow with us.