Customer Support Specialist

JOB SUMMARY

The Customer Support Specialist’s primary responsibility is to help our customers successfully use Higher Logic’s software solutions.  This role provides outstanding technical support and customer service through multiple support channels (phone, case, chat, etc.) to customers ranging from small businesses to large enterprises.  As a customer facing role, the Customer Support Specialist must possess strong service and communication skills and is an expert troubleshooter with a passion for helping customers. 

This position will assist Australia based customers. The work hours will be somewhere between 3:30pm ET - 12am ET and 5:30pm ET - 2am ET.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES:

• Resolve customer technical issues effectively and efficiently through multiple support channels
• Communicate with customers professionally and consistently on issue status and resolution
• Document customer interactions using our support ticketing system to capture issue type, status, relevant customer notes and resolution
• Continually develop and hone customers service & troubleshooting skills and Higher Logic product knowledge
• Build and foster positive working relationships across the team and company
• As required and as per internal SLAs, escalate customer tickets to other teams needed to resolve customer issues (within CX, Product, Engineering, Sales and Finance)
• As needed, coordinate phone calls or virtual sessions with customers to troubleshoot effectively
• Meet or exceed performance metrics around productivity, quality of work and overall customer experience as agreed upon with manager
• Conduct all business in accordance with Higher Logic policies and procedures.
• All other duties as assigned

KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:

• Basic understanding of or a willingness to learn Higher Logic’s Product Suite
• Critical thinking and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Exceptional customer service skills
• Effective prioritization and triaging skills to manage multiple customer inquiries
• Basic understanding or willingness to learn HTML & CSS
• Basic knowledge or a willingness to learn standard web technologies, browsers and web applications

EXPERIENCE DESIRED:

• Typically requires a minimum of 2 years of technical customer service experience, preferably in a SaaS environment
• Typical range for the role overall is 0-5 years.
• Technical background or expertise either through experience, self-led learning or certifications/degrees
• Retail, hospitality or restaurant experience providing customer service
• Experience working in a customer service or contact center environment
• Experience with CRM (Zendesk or Salesforce), Jira/Confluence 

To protect yourself against the increasing number of recruiting scams, please make sure that you are communicating with Higher Logic. We communicate through our corporate website at Higher Logic and through corporate emails utilizing our domain name of @higherlogic.com. Be vigilant when checking domains because imitators often make very small changes to trick the eye. Additionally, please know that Higher Logic does not use text messaging or public messaging platforms, such as Telegram or Whatsapp, to make initial contact with candidates and Higher Logic will never ask an employment candidate for financial information or for payment of any kind.

Higher Logic does not accept agency or candidate sourcing solicitations emails or phone calls, nor do we pay agency fees for our posted positions