Technical Support Specialist
Intercom · Chicago, United States · 10mo ago
Fin, now part of Salesforce, is on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences.
Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performing AI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey, from service, to sales, to ecommerce. Powered by our own AI models, Fin resolves complex customer issues end-to-end across every channel, with minimal set-up and integration. Fin can also be combined with our natively integrated Intercom help desk, giving modern support teams one single system.
Together with Salesforce, the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success, we're building the future of customer experience. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword, it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing, and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI.
Ready to level up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place. Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.
What's the opportunity?
With the advent of AI, the nature of customer support has changed dramatically - as have the humans who provide it. Our next Technical Support Specialist will be someone who thrives in autonomy, is deeply curious, fluent in AI tools and holds an extremely high bar not just for themselves, but for their teammates.
As a Technical Support Specialist, you'll own complex technical queries around some of our most nuanced features, serve as a point of escalation for your colleagues for the most tricky investigations, consistently provide world class customer support, collaborate with our customers proactively to help them make the most of our platform and help drive improvements in product, processes, and peer development. You'll use AI tools alongside your own expertise to handle complex cases efficiently and play a role in shaping a culture of continuous improvement. We ship product updates consistently, so if constant learning excites and energises you, this environment will suit you well!
If this is the kind of role that excites you, then we want you as our next Technical Support Specialist.
This position will be hybrid with the expectation to work from the office 3 days a week and work from home the remaining 2 days of the week. You are welcome to work from the office full-time if that is preferred.
What will I be doing?
- Communicating efficiently and effectively with our customers - we use our own product to do most of our support, but outbound phone calls are part of our offering too
- Owning customer communications and issues from initial contact until resolution
- Becoming an encyclopedia of knowledge about how Fin & the Intercom platform works and the solutions they can offer.
- Being the one responsible, along with the Support team, to ensure that all customers have a great experience with the product - a crucial part of the role is ensuring we make the product as easy to use, reliable, bug-free, and fast as possible.
- Working directly with product teams to identify current issues and, synthesizing the diverse feedback you hear from our customers, offer informed opinions on potential solutions.
- Debugging complex issues with an understanding of both our own codebase and the many technologies employed by our customers.
- Utilizing inherited and learned technical knowledge to build tools that will help increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the team and its processes.
- Influencing the direction of the Fin product through daily communication with our customers and consistent collaboration with our product teams.
What your first 6 months will look like:
In your first 30 days you will:
- Complete company onboarding, becoming familiar with Fin's values, strategy, and goals.
- Dive into CS-specific trainings to learn the product and CS workflows and successfully pass relevant assessments.
- Start talking to customers in the inbox and build “inboxing” fundamentals through Paired Inboxing sessions.
- Showcase successful and proactive communication about your training progress and needs/questions that arise.
In your first 60 days, you will:
- Continue to complete CS trainings and pass relevant assessments successfully and on schedule.
- Independently inbox using the resources and supports provided; be able to identify Problems to be Solved and address all pieces of the customer’s query.
- Demonstrate ownership in the execution of your work.
- Showcase successful and proactive communication, building on above - begin a habit of having items prepared for 1:1 discussion and driving the agenda.
In your first 90 days, you will:
- Receive QA reviews and action feedback.
- Begin a personal growth tracker document (or Individual Development Plan) with your manager for ongoing development and showcase a proactive approach to personal and career development.
- Contribute outside of the inbox via sharing suggestions and ideas for how we can improve.
- Successfully meet KPI targets and/or goals.
- Demonstrate Fin's Values in your work and alignment with the company vision and strategy.
What skills do I need?
- 3-4+ years of technical support experience, ideally within a software/SaaS environment.
- Solid understanding of tech fundamentals & modern day tools (Slack, Chrome, Coda, etc.)
- A basic understanding of APIs and webhooks, navigating developer documentation to know what is and isn’t possible with Intercom’s REST API.
- Strong customer focus (excels at & enjoys helping customers)
- Strong communication skills (ability to question, clarify, empathize, use appropriate tone & language, personable)
- Strong problem solving skills (ability to think critically and learn on-the-fly)
- Ability to troubleshoot and utilize resources to answer questions on baseline topics
- Ability to take on & action feedback, as well as deliver feedback consistently and at a high quality to peers, managers and cross-functional partners.
- Excitement for a support environment that has fully embraced AI solutions as the next step towards providing world-class customer support.
- Demonstrated success working with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) or other metrics/quotas.
Bonus skills & attributes
- Experience using Intercom, or similar SaaS platforms.
- Experience as Tier 2 or similar level of support.
- Experience in coaching & mentoring teammates.
- Experience in helping customers make the most of their current subscriptions.
- Experience in using AI tools (Glean, ChatGPT, Gemini etc.) to troubleshoot customer issues
*Proof of eligibility to work in the United States is required.
The base salary range for candidates within the Greater Chicago Area is $65,000 - $74,000. Actual base pay will depend on a variety of factors such as education, skills, experience, location, etc. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All regular employees may also be eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE).
Unleash Your Potential
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In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. At Fin, we want to give people what they need to do the best work of their careers. Our benefits and programs are designed to support your health and wellbeing, your family, your time away from work, and your financial future. Offerings vary by location in line with local practices and requirements. Learn more about working at Fin and the benefits we offer at fin.ai/careers. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Fin has a hybrid working policy. We believe that working in person helps us stay connected, collaborate easier and create a great culture while still providing flexibility to work from home. We expect employees to be in the office at least three days per week.
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