Customer Experience Associate

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>About AppDirect</strong><strong><br></strong><strong><br></strong>Become a digital, global citizen and enable the new generation of digital entrepreneurs around the world. AppDirect offers a subscription commerce platform to sell any product, through any channel, on any device - as a service. We power millions of subscriptions worldwide for organizations. We do this by our values-driven culture - one that enables you to Be Seen, Be Yourself, and Do Your Best Work.</span><br><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>About Firstbase, an AppDirect subsidiary</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Remote work is the biggest workplace revolution in history. Nothing will deliver a higher quality of life upgrade in the next decade. The biggest challenge is in providing the infrastructure that makes going remote easy for companies and Firstbase is delivering this core infrastructure that makes remote and hybrid work possible and sustainable for companies around the world.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Today, we serve both workers and businesses by doing two things: we give businesses the ability to instantly support remote workers with all the physical goods they need to do great work (from computers to furniture to company swag & perks), and we give workers the ability to pick and choose what they need for their unique circumstances, then return it when they leave.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>About You</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Firstbase is on a mission to empower remote work. The Customer Experience team is the driving force delivering an unparalleled customer experience to those who have chosen to make the investment in their people.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Our customers are asking us to solve the most difficult challenges behind supporting remote work; making sure remote workers are set up to be successful in their chosen space. Our Customer Experience team is the group that not only guides them on their journey, but is also their most trusted resource along the way. This team breaks through barriers and works to deliver the best customer experience possible, because it is what we would want for ourselves. We aim to take the burden of logistics off of our users across the world, while making them excited to have partnered with Firstbase.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">We are seeking a Customer Experience Associate to work ET and/or CT time zones to assist our customers with optimizing their experience with Firstbase. We are looking for someone who demonstrates empathy, organizational skills, as well as problem solving abilities, to assist us in the remote work revolution.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Onboarding includes a comprehensive training and shadowing experience that will empower you to support our customers with ease.                                                                                                                  </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>What you’ll do and how you’ll have an impact</strong></span></p> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Respond to and resolve customer queries and other inbound/outbound requests via email, in a thoughtful, timely and accurate way.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Act as a process and product expert, being able to quickly and accurately consult users on best practices and how Firstbase operates.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Create and maintain customer-facing FAQs, videos, and other support materials in our Help Center. Strive to empower customers to help themselves.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Collect and share user suggestions, as well as pain points, directly with the rest of the company (particularly our Product and Operations teams).</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Identify areas of operational improvement within the CX team as well as the overall organization. Feel and be empowered to make those improvements.</span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>What we're looking for</strong></span></p> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2+ years experience as a Customer Support Specialist in physical goods operations companies, working with logistics carriers and warehouse operations</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">BA/BS degree or similar university education</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ability to work quickly and independently with excellent time management skills</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Excellent written and verbal communication skills that can be tailored to a broad range of requesters, plus innate follow-up skills</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Experience using Zendesk, Jira and/or other help desk software and remote support tools</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ability to adapt to new tools and technologies</span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><em>At AppDirect, we believe that innovation thrives in an environment that houses diversity of excellence, experience and thought. We respect each AppDirector as their own fingerprint; unique with no one alike. We foster an environment of inclusion without regard to race, religion, age, sexual orientation, or gender identity enabling AppDirectors to embrace their uniqueness to do their best work. As such, we strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities.</em></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><em>At AppDirect we take privacy very seriously. For more information about our use and handling of personal data from job applicants, please read our Candidate Privacy Policy. For more information of our general privacy practices, please see AppDirect Privacy Notice:</em><em><a href="https://www.appdirect.com/about/candidate-privacy-notice"> </a><a href="https://www.appdirect.com/about/privacy-notice">https://www.appdirect.com/about/privacy-notice</a></em></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><em>At AppDirect, AI tools may assist our recruitment team with administrative automations — always under human oversight. AI tools do not make hiring decisions or solely automated decisions about your candidacy – all decisions are made by our people. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that your information may be processed in this way. You may request access or deletion at any time by contacting <a href="mailto:privacy@appdirect.com">privacy@appdirect.com</a>. </em></span></p>

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