Technical Support Representative

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Technical Support Representative

Austin, TX

Summary

Named a "Best Place to Work" in Austin, TX in 2018, BigCommerce is looking for a full-time Technical Support Representative for our Austin Four Points Office to support our customers’ technical issues, educate our store owners on various platform features, and enable our customers to sell more and grow their online stores. At BigCommerce, we don't just sell and support a platform, we empower our clients to succeed. You will use your technical know-how and unparalleled customer service skills to help our customers set-up, optimize, and run their online stores by answering technical-related questions via our phone, chat, and ticketing systems. Our team members are expected to learn the basics of the job quickly, and to continue growing their knowledge of the industry as it evolves. You are a team player who can recognize the various values and opportunities presented by your peers, you will work with them, compete against them, and celebrate each other's success. The right candidate will possess strong technical skills, the ability to communicate effectively via unsurpassed soft skills, and the creativity to engineer solutions for the ever growing world of eCommerce entrepreneurs. As a team, our mission is to make ourselves available when our customers need us and to give them a path to success in a 24x7 environment. We offer competitive pay and have a guided ramping period that has built in pay raises over the first 3 - 7 months.

What You Will Do

  • Provide outstanding phone, email, and chat based technical and account services support to our customers in a fast-paced 24x7 environment (expect up to 7.5 hours of talk/chat time a day)
  • Provide extraordinary support to our ever-growing merchant base with your unsurpassed customer service and problem solving capabilities
  • Develop solutions and utilize standard operating procedures for improving customer satisfaction and creating lifelong promoters of our brand
  • Communicate with the management team and developers to improve product functionality and resolve issues
  • Decrease incoming volume by striving toward first contact resolution and proactively onboarding and advising customers on eCommerce best practices
  • Escalate unresolved issues as required while maintaining ownership of issues through resolution
  • Assist customers with common billing, invoice, and account issues
  • Utilize classroom, video, and self-paced training to stay ahead of product advancements and eCommerce best practices; utilize your knowledge to solve problems efficiently
  • Display high levels of professionalism and recurring interactions with departments inside and outside of the Client Success organization.

Who You Are

  • A work ethic that demonstrates dedication to the company, its mission, personal pride, and the team; a desire to work in a culture of excellence
  • Experience in a customer-facing, service-oriented role is required
  • Experience in a phone, email, or chat-based technical support or customer service contact center preferred
  • Exceptional ability to utilize self service resources (internal guides, Google-fu, external service portals, Stack Overflow, etc) to find solutions is required
  • Strong aptitude toward various web, e-commerce, and hosting technologies and how they work together is required
  • Ability to read or edit within at least one web-based language (HTML, CSS, Javascript, Jquery, etc) is preferred
  • Understanding of basic data structures preferred
  • Exceptional critical thinking and soft skills with experience in deescalating difficult customers
  • A passion for WOWing customers and providing often unique solutions to best fit each customer's situation
  • Dedicated team player interested in growing and competing alongside some of the best tech support agents in the business, willingness to help others grow and seek help from peers to maximize potential
  • Excellent written communication skills for documenting calls and platform issues as well as excellent verbal communication and the ability to deal with frustrated clients without taking it personal, and strong customer relationship skills
  • Must be flexible to shift work and occasional overtime in a 24x7, 365 environment

This description is intended to serve as a summary of key duties and responsibilities and may not contain a comprehensive list of activities.

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Location

Our HQ is set amongst trees and nature trails in the beautiful hills of Austin.

What are BigCommerce Perks + Benefits

BigCommerce Benefits Overview

We empower our employees to think big and do great work by offering a positive work environment and outstanding benefits.

For your health: We offer multiple national medical insurance plans including PPO and HDHP options. We also offer a PPO dental plan and vision insurance.

For your wealth: We offer a 401(k) retirement plan, a Health Savings Account (HSA), a Healthcare Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and a Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DCRA) as pre-tax benefits. We also offer company paid life insurance up to 3 times your annual salary, as well as company paid short-term & long-term disability insurance.

For your resilient self: We care about your wellbeing in addition to your health and wealth. To assist with that, we offer paid vacation leave (15 days PTO for hourly employees and open vacation for our salary employees). All employees receive paid sick leave, paid volunteer time, and a paid wellness day. We have multiple family benefits for caregivers including paid parental leave, newborn child sick leave, adoption assistance, and a flexible return to work policy. We also offer educational reimbursements, a free BigCommerce ecommerce store, and an Employee Assistance Program.

Last, but definitely not least, we like to enjoy ourselves at work. We have company-sponsored employee programs including Employee Resource Groups, culture clubs, even virtual events.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
We encourage our employees to give back to our local communities through volunteer work. BigCommerce provides two paid Charity/Volunteering Leave days per calendar year to all permanent employees.
Partners with nonprofits
Each year, the BC family partners with Partnerships for Children to help kids in the Austin area who have been taken from their homes and are living in protective custody during the holidays.
Open door policy
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Employee-led culture committees
Hybrid work model
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity manifesto
Diversity employee resource groups
BEmpowered for women, non-binary people, and allies; BProud for LGBTQ+ and allies; B-United for Veterans and allies; BCinColor for people of color and allies; BigFamily for caregivers and alli
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
National United HealthCare PPO & HDHP plan options with deductibles as low as $500, coverage up to 100% for in-network services and low monthly premiums
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Team workouts
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Company equity
BigCommerce offers equity to employees through a number of different occasions, including an annual equity performance review period.
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Company sponsored family events
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Unlimited vacation policy for salaried team members and generous accrued time off policy for non-exempt team members.
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Onsite office parking
We offer employees parking in a garage on the property.
Fitness stipend
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
BigCommerce offers a variety of opportunities for learning and development from training sessions and workshops, to different conferences to attend.
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Career mentorship is available.
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks

Additional Perks + Benefits

We empower our employees to define culture in the areas of wellness & fitness, community & volunteerism, and team building through local culture clubs that help our employees connect. Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) support our diverse workforce through supportive, inclusive networks that help develop awareness and respect across the company. We sustain our culture by understanding what drives our employees' engagement, measuring that engagement, and implementing initiatives to continue to make BigCommerce an even better place to work.

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