Customer Support Executive

Posted Mar 27

We hire great people from diverse backgrounds where everyone is valued for the unique contributions they make. If you resonate with our vision, mission and values, we want to hear from you! We’re committed to hiring diversely and inclusively.

Vision: To enable impactful elearning experiences at scale for the world’s leading companies.

Mission: We help people to create impactful elearning by unlocking expertise from any employee.

Our company values are Learn, Care, Share which we apply to all aspects of our work, from our flexible working opportunities, to our friendly, supportive culture. We put people first. We know that life is about more than work, so we give you space and support to thrive professionally and personally. Our success is fuelled by the positive attitudes and exceptional talent of our team.

We offer flexible working and a healthy work-life balance creating opportunities to help you juggle other commitments, work from home, and childcare. We are dedicated to maintaining a culture where everyone is respected and has a voice in the day to day running of the company. We like to celebrate our team’s contributions to making Elucidat a great place to work.

We are officially one of the UK’s Best Workplaces in 2022 according to Great Place to Work being named as a Best Place to Work for Wellbeing, for Women & in Tech.

Elucidat is an elearning authoring platform used by the world’s leading companies to deliver impactful learning on a global scale. Elucidat enables teams to scale production without increasing costs or reducing impact. With Elucidat, teams can harness internal expertise, control quality, and ensure employees receive relevant learning that achieves real impact. We work with some of the world's most successful organisations, including Oxfam, Tesco and DECIEM.

Requirements

This role is a 12 month fixed-term contract to cover a period of maternity leave with the potential to extend. Our office is based in Brighton, England with a team of remote UK & US based employees.

This role sits within our Support and Customer Success team, where our focus is on making sure that our customers are getting the most out of Elucidat. We’re a tight-knit team who work together to ensure that all our customer's queries are resolved accurately and efficiently. Our support team is what sets us apart from the crowd - with an awesome 97% of all conversations marked as happy!

Responsibilities

  • First line support - providing in-app chat, email-based support and screen shares with our customers. This can be anything from straight-forward how-to requests through to complex problem solving. All support queries are treated with the same dedicated and passionate approach to delivering the best possible experience for our customers.
  • Second Line investigation - spending time investigating more complex issues by gathering required information, considering all variables, replicating the problem in a reliable manner, working with our engineering team to find a solution, and following this through to release, via our product development process.
  • Ensuring contractual SLAs and internal targets are met.
  • Support documentation - updating our online Help Center as the product evolves and new features are released as well as in response to customer queries and other initiatives.
  • Issue logging - logging bugs and feature requests in a defined, clear manner such that they can be handed over to other teams quickly and easily
  • Maintenance - working with the Head of Support and Product Team to prioritise and manage maintenance tickets
  • Cross-team engagement - working with Sales, Customer Success, Product and Infrastructure teams on internal projects to help the company meet its strategic goals.
  • Risk identification - using a variety of tools and reports to identify customers that may be at risk of cancelling, for example, due to low utilisation of the product. Flagging this to the Customer Success Team and supporting proactive campaigns to engage with our customer base.
  • Opportunity identification - having the commercial awareness, and knowledge of our services and strategic direction, to identify opportunities for upsell within existing customers.
  • Testing - reliably and efficiently testing new bug fixes and features against the known spec or original reported problem, to validate fixes before communicating back to the customer.
  • Be inspired, and inspiring - all our team are brilliant at what they do. They inspire each other every day, and the chosen candidate for this role will be expected to perform at that standard - showing others new ways of doing things, and being open minded to learning from others at the same time.

Person Specification

  • Great communication skills and the ability to explain complex or technical issues
  • Excellent problem solving skills
  • Ability to become a product expert in Elucidat
  • Experience as a customer support specialist or similar CS role
  • Experience of using helpdesk software and remote support tools
  • Extremely strong attention to detail
  • Ability to ‘read between the lines’ and ask the right questions to understand the core of a customer issue
  • The ability to influence and inspire confidence
  • Great with data and analytics
  • Experience managing expectations of customers
  • Highly-organised with the ability to prioritise and plan time effectively
  • Enjoy a range of different tasks (every day will be different!) and happy to try new things
  • A great sense of humour! While we work hard, we have a great time while we do it, and fitting into our culture is as important as being able to do the job

Icing on the cake

  • Experience working with (both internally and externally) a variety of software products, especially web-based SaaS products
  • Basic knowledge of HTML/CSS/Javascript
  • Experience working with a variety of tools and systems (e.g. CRM, Google Docs, Confluence, Zendesk, JIRA, Slack)

Benefits

  • Our company values are 'Learn, Care, Share' which we apply to all aspects of our work, from our flexible working opportunities, to our friendly, supportive culture.
  • Flexible working and a healthy work/life balance - opportunities to help you juggle other commitments, e.g. childcare
  • Competitive salary, 17 days holiday, plus bank holidays and 4 Days personal leave.
  • Inclusion in the company wide bonus scheme, designed to reward all employees as the business achieves new milestones.
  • Standard US holidays, New Year's Day, Easter Monday, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day (4th of July), Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Friday after Thanksgiving, Christmas Day.
  • 80% funded Health, Dental, Vision and Life insurance for employees and 50% funded for family cover.
  • 401k.
  • Opportunities to grow - from our excellent onboarding process through career plans to help you progress
  • Dedicated learning time - learning is one of our core values so we ensure this is nurtured within the company too, by offering you 1 day of dedicated learning time every month.
  • Happier weekdays - Opportunities to get to know global team members better through things like weekly ‘donuts’, socials, and events.
  • Giving back - There are opportunities for staff to give back to non-profit activities or charities that support the wider community. We also provide discounts to our software to charities such as Oxfam and 350.org.
  • Everyone has a voice - We are building a culture where everyone is respected and has a voice in the day to day running of the company - a workplace where everyone is valued for the contributions they make. Our quarterly objectives (OKRs) are set by the entire team and we use the latest technologies to collect regular feedback anonymously through polling and pulse checks. We continually celebrate individual and collective achievements.
  • Autonomy and trust: Work from Anywhere Policy for up to four weeks per year
  • Climate positive business: We’ve partnered with Ecologi to plant trees and invest in carbon capture projects. We’ve planted 25,000 trees and counting! Our Brighton office uses eco-friendly cleaning supplies, is paper-free, and recycles wherever we can to do our part.

Hours: Full time

Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, Remote

Salary: $35,000 - $50,000 per annum depending on experience

If you do not tick all the boxes, we still encourage you to apply. If you are excited about Elucidat’s mission and want to be a part of it, we want to hear from you! You do not need a degree to work for us, we hire passionate people from all sociological backgrounds and experiences.