Customer Support Specialist | $45K-$55K + Remote | High-Growth Event Planning SaaS Company

Company Description

Our client is a fast-growing, $3M seed-funded B2B SaaS startup revolutionizing how event professionals source and book venues. Their platform streamlines and simplifies event booking management in real time for event planners, hospitality professionals, and DMOs. Their platform is also used by 150K+ hotels, including industry leaders such as Marriott, Hilton, and Hyatt.

This is an exciting growth opportunity - our client plans to double their team headcount and expand their customer base beyond Europe and North America. This is also a great opportunity with career advancement potential. 

Company Culture

This is an amazing opportunity if you’re looking to grow, where you will directly impact the growth and success of an incredible company and team.

Our client values accountability, an ownership mindset, and a data-driven approach. Their collaborative team where each person’s contributions directly impact their success. Their company is scaling fast where micromanagement does not exist, and you’ll have the freedom to think outside the box, bring fresh ideas, and get creative with your processes. 

You’ll work closely with the founders and C-Suite, allowing you to make a real difference and be part of strategic decisions. If you're someone who thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment with opportunities for growth and advancement, this is the place for you!

Benefits

• Health Coverage: 100% employee and 50% dependent coverage for vision, health, and dental.
• Maternity Leave: Support for growing families.
• Future 401K Plan: Coming soon!
• Quarterly Meetups: Connect and collaborate in person with the team.
• Remote work budget and opportunities for leadership advancement.

Job Description

We seek a detail-oriented, people-first Customer Support Specialist to join our growing team. This role is critical to ensuring our customers have a smooth and successful experience on our platform. It is a hybrid of responsive customer support and proactive outreach to hotels that need to join the platform to respond to active RFPs.

You’ll be a key touchpoint for both planners and hotels, helping troubleshoot issues and ensuring timely engagement from all parties. You'll handle responsive customer support while conducting proactive outreach to hotels that need to join the platform to respond to active RFPs.

Responsibilities

Customer Support

• Respond to inbound inquiries from planners and hotels via Intercom chat, email, and phone.
• Update and improve existing support content and macros to reflect product updates
• Provide feedback to product and customer success teams to improve user experience.

Hotel Onboarding & RFP Management

• Proactively reach out to hotels that need to join Hopskip to respond to planner RFPs
• Follow a proven script and onboarding process, adapting when needed
• Track and maintain consistent follow-ups with hotels
• Maintain and update hotel contact information and associate hoteliers with their properties
• Monitor RFP response rates and identify/prioritize overdue RFPs
• Facilitate communication between hotels and planners
• Work with various stakeholders, including hotel staff, sales managers, and planners, while maintaining organization-wide communication standards.

Help Center

• User Feedback Integration: Monitor customer feedback and support inquiries to identify gaps or improvements needed in existing content.
• Collaboration: Work with support, product, and marketing teams to ensure documentation aligns with product updates and company messaging.

Qualifications

• 1-3+ ears of experience in SaaS customer support, ideally in a startup environment.
• Self-motivated with a track record of working well independently.
• Must be comfortable being on the phone with customers.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. 
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment with the ability to prioritize, multi-task, perform well under pressure, meet deadlines, and work a flexible schedule.
• Excited to work in a startup environment and have a track record of being adaptable to changing priorities in a fluid, high-growth environment.
• Must be comfortable with working (12 PM to 9 PM EST shift). 
• Highly proactive beyond owning a customer support process - not an order taker.
• A clear, professional communicator, both written and verbal.
• Comfortable with learning and utilizing customer support tools, email, and chat messaging.
• Process-oriented yet adaptable in a fast-moving environment.
• Highly organized and proactive with strong follow-through.
• Experience or interest in the events/hospitality industry is a bonus.
• Tickets resolved with strong satisfaction.

Additional Information

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