Customer Support Specialist

Do you enjoy having responsibility for the growth and value delivered to an entire customer base? Are you motivated by working closely with customers solving their workflow and strategy challenges? Do you take pride in helping your customers succeed and constantly looking for opportunities to deliver value?

As a Customer Support Specialist at Karbon, you will support customers in their time of need. You'll function as the crucial link between customers, sales and our product development team.

As a Customer Support Specialist you will...

• Provide support to customers in the form of video & technical chat support. Training on the Karbon platform to drive client satisfaction. Ensure that considerable value is realized by the customer on the platform in the first 90 days after sale.
• Drive growth in existing customers after 90 days of the sale by ensuring they are are fully able to use all of Karbon's functionality by promoting awareness and adoption of the product.
• Increase the participation in free service offerings such as the Getting Started & Onboarding webinar series.
• Acquire and maintain a working knowledge of the value proposition of the platform as well as the existing and future needs of the customer.
• Assist, as needed, in the completion of customer-facing activities including updating client data, updating support resources, and updating support videos.
• Solve customers' problems by building partnerships, driving product/feature adoption, and ensuring customers actualize the value proposition from their investment. Be creative and adaptable in suggesting solutions to clients' unique problems.
• Accurately identify risk of customer churn and put value-add actions in place to mitigate possible churn. Develop a repeatable process and methodology that can be followed by others as Karbon expands.
• Champion the voice of the customer internally by giving product feedback to Product/Engineering in a effective manner for improvements and road mapping.
• Partner with education and product/customer marketing to produce continually enhanced vertical/industry specific assets that drive customer engagement.
• Partner with internal stakeholders including but not limited to vertical SME's, technical solutions, sales, people/operations, finance, and legal to ensure operational excellence.
• Help expand our global support team and processes. Curious in the problems that we are present, creative in your approach and ideation, and scientific in your hypothesis testing / fine-tuning / roll-out of your initiatives.

About you

Candidates with following experience are encouraged to apply:

• Customer service – since customer support specialists work directly with customers to solve end-user issues and answer questions, it's essential that you have strong customer service skills.
• Prior experience with chat / support software–i.e. Intercom/Zendesk. By nature, customer support specialists perform their day-to-day tasks on a computer. You must be able to easily operate a computer, especially in terms of checking and responding utilizing live chat services and software.
• Problem-solving skills – the ability to solve problems is just as integral to a chat agent's work as solid communication skills. When presented with a problem, chat agents must be able to find a solution calmly and efficiently, even if the customer is impatient or disgruntled
• Have a minimum of 1-3+ years of industry experience in B2B SaaS businesses, accounting professional services, training or education or customer support.
• Have great communication skills to be able to explain complex concepts clearly and efficiently and give consultative advice to help customers grow their performance.
• Have experience/passion for enabling businesses to grow and succeed.
• Ability to learn modern customer enablement SaaS and servicing tools to better understand, manage, and support customers.
• Have professional spoken and written English (fluency in other major languages is a plus but not required).

Perks and benefits:

• Flexible working hours
• Fully remote working arrangement
• 4 weeks annual leave plus 5 extra "Karbon Days" off a year
• Up to 10 wellness days off a year, because you don't need to be sick to have a day off!
• Generous parental leave
• Learning, growth and development program