
Customer Support Specialist
Hiiya
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Seattle • Washington • United States
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Salary
💰 $55,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Own the full support lifecycle for Strategic Operators and Enterprise Customers, making real-time decisions about ticket prioritization, routing, and resolution approaches to consistently meet SLA commitments for time to resolution and solution quality on first response
- Build and maintain support playbooks, processes, and documentation that codify best practices and enable the team to handle increasing complexity and volume without sacrificing quality
- Identify recurring customer pain points and patterns across tickets, translating these insights into actionable process improvements and clear feedback loops with Product and Engineering teams
- Operate with significant autonomy in determining how to solve customer problems within established frameworks, escalating strategically when issues require cross-functional alignment or have broader product implications
- Navigate ambiguity in customer issues that may lack clear documentation or precedent, using technical judgment and resourcefulness to research, test, and deliver accurate solutions
Requirements
- 1–3 years of experience in customer support, preferably in a fast-paced SaaS environment
- Hands-on experience with support platforms such as Zendesk or Salesforce Service Cloud
- Technical aptitude sufficient to troubleshoot product issues, understand API basics, and communicate effectively with engineering teams
- Demonstrated interest in or experience building support documentation, playbooks, or process improvements
- Strong written communication skills with attention to clarity and detail.
- Experience supporting telecommunications or carrier customers (Preferred)
- Exposure to enterprise or strategic account support models (Preferred)
- Process-oriented mindset with genuine interest in building scalable systems, not just solving individual problems (Preferred)
- Ownership mentality—you follow issues through to resolution and proactively identify ways to prevent similar issues in the future (Preferred)
- Comfort operating in environments where answers aren't always documented and creative problem-solving is required (Preferred)
- Collaborative approach to working with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success teams to drive better outcomes for customers (Preferred)
Benefits
- Employer-sponsored Insurance
- Medical, dental, and vision (PPO & HDHP); 50% dependent coverage
- Health, flexible spending, and dependent care accounts
- Life, AD&D, and accident coverage, with company-paid life and long-term disability
- 401(k) with 3% company match (via Fidelity)
- Flexible vacation policy and paid company holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Work-from-home equipment stipend
- $1,000 annually to invest in your learning and growth
- $1,000/year in charitable donation matching
- Team lunch 2x per week
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
customer supporttroubleshootingAPI basicsprocess improvementssupport documentationsupport playbooksticket prioritizationresolution approachesSaaS experiencetelecommunications support
Soft Skills
written communicationattention to detailownership mentalitycreative problem-solvingcollaborationprocess-oriented mindsetautonomyresourcefulnessstrategic escalationnavigating ambiguity