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Customer Support Specialist

Own customer support tickets from first inquiry to resolution, troubleshoot workflows, configuration and integrations, and train customers on the product.

Remote, US locations

The role

What you would be doing

Responsibilities

  • Build strong relationships with customers, keeping a customer first mentality
  • Manage support tickets from initial inquiry through resolution
  • Identify customer needs and guide them to solutions by email or digital meeting
  • Diagnose and troubleshoot issues across workflows, platform configuration and integrations
  • Update customer configurations and support implementations alongside the customer and project teams
  • Train customers on Dovetail products and features
  • Work with operations and product to resolve issues and relay customer feedback
  • Escalate appropriately when needed

Skills and requirements

  • Excellent customer service skills with a genuine customer first approach
  • Strong oral and written communication, able to explain technical concepts to non technical people
  • Strong troubleshooting and problem solving, with a drive to find root causes
  • Tech savvy across APIs, SaaS applications, database technologies, AWS, CSV and flat files, SSO, CSS, HTML, SPF, FTP, SSH and PGP
  • Experience with helpdesk support and ticketing systems
  • Able to prioritize and manage several things at once
  • Attention to detail, particularly around customer production data and data security
  • Prior customer facing technical support experience, ideally in SaaS at application configuration level
  • Comfortable learning and supporting a multi product suite

Desired experience

  • Working with HR teams, or familiarity with HR technology
  • CRM or helpdesk software platforms
  • Enterprise report writing, for example Crystal Reports, Exago, Cognos or Business Objects

Compensation and benefits

What comes with the job

Competitive salary commensurate with experience

Flexible hours

Work remotely

Generous paid time off, starting at three weeks

Health insurance with dental and vision plans

401(k) with company match

Life insurance

Long-term disability

Gym allowance

Paid sick days

Referral program

The company

About Dovetail

Founded in 1996 and based in Austin, Texas, Dovetail Software provides an HR service delivery experience covering HR case management, the employee portal, HR knowledge management and reporting and analytics.

Dovetail is a place where people work hard, have a real impact on everything here, and still have a life. People do not treat this as a stop on the way to a better job. The average tenure at Dovetail is 11 years.

At the heart of our values we believe in teamwork and customer first. We are a high performing team who collaborate on ideas, goals and challenges. Integrity is key to everything we do.

Apply for Customer Support Specialist

Send your resume to jobs@dovetailsoftware.com. A person reads it. If it is close but not quite, we will tell you that too.