NationBuilder Hiring for Customer Support Technician Job at Remote, Australia Full Time

Customer Support Technician – Australia

At NationBuilder we create software for leaders. We work with political candidates and parties, nonprofit organizations, community organizers, and anyone else trying to make something happen in the world. Our customers come in all shapes and sizes, from small town organizers trying to win their school board election, to the largest political parties, candidates, and NGOs in the world. To learn more about NationBuilder, read about our mission and beliefs.

This is an opportunity to play a critical role at NationBuilder, anchoring our support operation in Australia & New Zealand as our Customer Support Technician in the region. You’ll provide reactive customer service and technical support, equipping our customers to be successful with NationBuilder’s software. Our technicians are world-class customer support professionals who are constantly deepening their knowledge of our software and honing the skills required to help customers resolve their problems.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Help customers resolve their technical issues over the phone, email and messenger.
• Provide a world-class support experience for our customers by embodying a helpful, friendly, and empathetic attitude.
• Develop expertise in the NationBuilder platform and working proficiency in email deliverability, DNS and theme by leveraging internal tools, such as Sendgrid, and DNS Made Easy.
• Manage a high volume of emails and phone calls with a positive, professional, and helpful attitude.
• Document and troubleshoot product issues on the platform using our internal reporting tools.
• Monitor and review customer account user submitted content for pernicious activity using internal tools.
• Stay abreast of new NationBuilder product features and improvements.
• Identify and clearly report customer issues to other teams as appropriate within NationBuilder.
• Support the rest of the company on cross-functional issues when required.

Required areas of expertise and knowledge:

• Someone known among friends and family for being helpful.
• Someone who exudes empathy, is calm under pressure, and has a can-do attitude.
• Someone with strong reading-comprehension and listening skills, with the ability to identify the root of a customer’s need.
• Someone who relishes working in an open and collaborative environment.
• An excellent communicator on the phone and through email. Someone with excellent grammar and spelling skills, and fast, accurate typing.
• A voracious learner, constantly curious about how things work.
• At ease fielding technical questions and relentless when it comes to finding answers.
• Comfortable using tools such as Slack, Intercom and Google Docs on a daily basis.
• Willing to work weekend shifts.
• Experience with HTML and CSS, and an ability to troubleshoot website issues.
• Preferably, someone experienced in customer-facing service, such as retail, hospitality, online support, etc.

This is a full-time role. The role is also a remote position and the candidate must be based in Australia. You must have your own private workspace available with a reliable fast broadband connection.

NationBuilder is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We are committed to finding talent that is not determined on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.