Role Summary:
The Tier 2 Support Technician will work with our growing customer support team to deliver excellent service to our end users (restaurant guests) and clients (restaurant owners) utilizing an amiable and hospitality-focused voice. Success in this role requires a talent for real-time, efficient problem-solving, and technical communication skills to provide support to resolve day-to-day issues. This role requires top-tier organizational skills, a high level of follow-through, and the ability to communicate technical issues efficiently and succinctly to our development team, merchant partners and end users. Additionally, applicants should be naturally interested in helping customers by resolving their questions and concerns.
Who You Are:
- Passionate about our mission and can see the value this role brings to us, our restaurant partners, and our customers
- Creative problem solver with the ability to quickly assess, deescalate, and resolve customer issues
- Clear, empathetic, and relatable communicator
- Sharp-focused and detail-oriented learner, able to quickly adapt to our product and features to best serve our customers
- Responsive, autonomous, and time-conscious
Responsibilities/Essential Functions:
- Provide email and occasional phone support (outbound) to guests and merchant partners via our ticketing system on the Zendesk ticketing platform
- Complete 70 tickets/day with a one-touch ticket percentage of 80% or higher and a CSat score of 90% or higher
- Maintain close contact and open communications with restaurant owners and guests until an issue has been resolved
- Provide white glove support to our VIP guest cohort including booking reservations and offering priority support via a text line
- Escalate complex issues to Tier 3 and Management appropriately
- Communicate complex technical issues to our end users and development team and follow up with the team and end users according to our policies
- Conduct technical support in line with documented procedures
- Provide your direct manager with regular updates on common problems encountered and identify possible longer-term solutions/improvements to reduce future problems
- Use communication channels to inform the team of important issues and information which will help improve team performance
Minimum Qualifications:
- 1-2 years Technical Customer Service experience
- Experience working with CRM software (Zendesk is preferred)
- Good oral & written communication skills and the ability to communicate efficiently with the development team as well as our end users and merchant partners
- Must be able to explain abstract concepts verbally and in writing
- Good interpersonal and organizational skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 3-4 years Technical Customer Service experience
- Previous experience in the hospitality industry
Work Environment:
- The candidate must be able to work autonomously in a remote environment and have a stable and reliable internet connection
- Monitor, laptop, headset, wireless keyboard and mouse are provided by inKind
Schedule
- 3:00pm-12midnight EST, Tuesday-Saturday
Some of our Benefits:
- Generous PTO and company holiday policy + company paid Short Term Disability
- 100% employer covered health and dental insurance for our direct employees (a set plan is covered, with higher tier healthcare coverage available at employee’s additional cost; dependent coverage is at employee’s cost); vision plan available at employee’s additional cost
- Child Care Benefits and generous parental leave
Salary:
- $55,000 - $65,000, DOE
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