Employment Hero Looking for Customer Care Specialist (HR) – New Zealand at New Zealand Full Time

Employment Hero is on a mission to make employment easier and more valuable for everyone. Our Employment Operating System brings hiring, HR, payroll and benefits into an all-in-one solution. 

Since our inception in 2014, we’ve scaled to a $2 billion valuation and gained a presence in 6 countries globally – Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, the UK and Canada. We now service over 300,000 businesses and more than 2 million employees. 

The EH Way

At Employment Hero, we’re proud of our unique DNA, which we call The EH Way.  

This role 

As a Customer Care Specialist (HR), you’ll be working within our Customer Experience team and will be responsible for gathering information from customers and ensuring their continued support and success after implementing our Employment Hero HR product. In this role, you will be supporting our customers to ensure accuracy and will be responsible for resolving customer tickets efficiently and effectively. This includes addressing customer issues with professionalism and care, and escalating to the appropriate teams where necessary. The expected hours of the role are Monday to Friday from 8:30am to 5.30pm (NZ local time).

Your key focus areas will be

• Responding to and resolving customer tickets, calls and queries related to the Employment Hero HR Platform in a timely manner.
• Assist and collaborate with the wider squad and support team to provide best practice system use and education to all our customers.
• Proactively analyse and understand product functionality across the platform and logic in detail; and testing in platforms to identify user error/system logic and related root causes by maintaining comprehensive awareness of product changes and enhancements.
• Conduct/triage customer support issues and assign to the appropriate team or resolve where possible.
• Escalating issues related to bugs or product logic/functionality concerns as necessary, in collaboration with Seniors/Team Leads.
• Working with customers across multi channels (email, chat, phone) to understand their organisational workflow and how the platform can support them to maximise their people processes.
• Leveraging Zendesk, Salesforce and other internal tools for maintaining records, ticket investigations and referencing customer interactions, transactions, comments, and complaints in accordance with service level agreements (SLAs)
• Proactively contribute feature requests and Help Centre suggestions, where warranted and using customer insights.

Who you are 

To thrive at Employment Hero, you’ll need to embody The EH Way – operating with focus, agility, and an obsession with impact. For this role, you’ll also bring

• 1-2 years experience with proven results in a fast paced customer service/support environment across live chat and email.
• Relevant Australian payroll Experience e.g. KeyPay/Employment Hero
• Prior exposure to customer experience within a SaaS (Software as a Service) environment.
• Exposure to working in fluid, high change and high velocity environments.
• Problem solving skills with a sound and thorough approach to troubleshooting.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, working autonomously; requesting assistance where needed.
• Strong and polished verbal and written communication skills.

What we can offer

At Employment Hero, we don’t just talk about a better way to work – we live it. Joining Employment Hero means

• You will work remotely, with the flexibility to own your time and impact
• You will access cutting-edge tools to amplify your work, knowledge and outputs 
• You’ll surround yourself with ambitious, outcome-driven colleagues who challenge you to do the best work of your life
• You’ll own ESOP (employee share options) in one of the world’s fastest-growing tech companies 
• You’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits that includes – a very generous paternity leave policy, subsidised egg freezing (so you can make the choice that’s right for you, on your terms), a WFH office expense budget, and outstanding learning & development opportunities 

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Employment Hero celebrates diverse perspectives and experiences, we invite people of all backgrounds and identities to apply for this position.