Podium exists to help local businesses win. Using Podium, local businesses can simplify the way they communicate with their customers—from collecting payments to facilitating online reviews to launching marketing campaigns, and much more.
Our work and focus on helping local businesses thrive has been recognized across the industry, including Forbes’ Next Billion Dollar Startups, Forbes’ Cloud 100, the Inc. 5000, and Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies.
We look for people who are curious, creative and are willing to do the work to be a little better every day. We also embody our company values in all that we do, which always starts with being Customer Obsessed, followed by Be a Founder, Zero Drama, and Enjoy the Ride. Does that sound like you?
Our Customer Support team is an essential part of our customer’s experience. The team answers how-to questions and troubleshoots customer inquiries, working creatively to keep customers working on what matters most: growing their business!
People who thrive in this role are curious and creative; they’re driven by empowering others to be successful. They’re energized by the opportunity to be challenged and enjoy growing and stretching their skills every day. The customer is at the center of everything we do.
What you bring:
- Customer Obsession: You’re passionate about empowering customers and love the challenge of finding what will help them most
- Curiosity: You are not afraid to ask questions and have an “always learning” mantra
- Ownership: You proactively set high standards and follow through on goals and take responsibility for you and your team’s performance
- Adaptability: You thrive in a dynamic environment and are comfortable with ambiguity and changing customer priorities and needs
- Communication: You’re an excellent communicator and thrive at creating clarity and alignment, staying highly organized and great prioritization are part of your tool kit
What you will be doing:
- You will partner with Podium customers to help answer how-to questions and troubleshoot the Podium platform. When customers have questions, you have answers!
- You will deliver a “human-first” experience and resolutions for customers through voice and written interactions across chat, email, phone, and Podium tools in a timely and accurate manner
- You will become an expert in Podium products, both at a technical and customer use-case level.
- You will not stop at a simple resolution, but will look for opportunities to help customers maximize their value from Podium, looking for new ways to work smarter and delight customers!
- You will partner with leadership on increasing organizational efficiencies, sharing feedback and focuses to help the team work smarter while driving customer value higher
- You will collaborate with peer team members (Sales, Onboarding, Account Management, Retention, etc.) to increase customer engagement and contribute to retaining customers long term, working as one team!
How you will be measured:
- Ticket Resolution + Case Volume
- Customer Satisfaction + Quality of Customer Interactions
What experience you should have:
- MUST SPEAK ENGLISH FLUENTLY
- Must be graphically based in Columbia
- 2-3 years of providing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) customer support to businesses with examples where you’ve influenced customers for the better
- Demonstrated background of providing support for multiple online software or SaaS products and/or IT experience
- Experience building best practices geared towards support quality and efficiencies, potentially from having served as a Subject Matter Expert (SME), Coach or Team Lead
- The ability to balance working independently and through ambiguity while contributing to a strong team environment
- Multiple examples of prioritizing for highest impact/value work amongst competing priorities or demands
- You are familiar with basic web technologies (ex: HTML, CSS, JSON, and JavaScript)
- You are familiar with navigating and working with multiple support systems (ex: Zendesk, Freshdesk, Service Cloud, ServiceNow, LiveAgent, Intercom, Salesforce, Twilio etc)
Compensation / Benefits:
- Monthly pay is $1100 USD / month
- Open and transparent culture
- Excellent opportunities for career growth and advancement
- Swag!
