At Element Biosciences, we are passionate about our mission to empower the scientific community with more freedom and flexibility to accelerate our collective impact on humanity. We have built a highly efficient product-driven organization where employees can learn, grow, and thrive in a challenging but encouraging environment. We are committed to scientific integrity, collegiality, honesty, objectivity, and openness.
We are seeking an experienced IT Specialist who will play a pivotal role in managing the Element Help Desk and providing customer assistance. This is an incredible opportunity for someone who is passionate about supporting a growing company with a strong work culture. We are looking for candidates with a solid background in supporting customers in bringing IT solutions in a corporate environment. Experience with Windows desktop environment and MAC and IOS computers and phones is a must. This role will report to the Associate Director – IT Service Management and will be a San Diego based role.
If you possess the following and want to make a meaningful impact, we invite you to explore this role.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Manage Help Desk tickets in a timely manner
- Respond to customer issues via phone, email and computer chat
- Provide customer assistance
- Document customer interactions
- Run diagnostics to resolve customer reported issues
- Escalate issues to the next Tier with next level of difficulty
- Install, make changes and repair computer hardware and software
- Follow-up with customers to ensure issues are resolved
- Great communication skills
- “Genius Bar” support
Education and Experience:
- 3+ years of relative industry experience, (an equivalent combination of experience and education may be considered)
- Extensive experience working in windows desktop environment
- Proficiency with a MAC and IOS computers and phones
- Excellent oral communication skills
- Highly organized to keep Help desk tickets order
- Ability to diagnose and resolve basic computer technical issues
- Work with software support teams
- Life science background or prior Lab experience is great
Physical Requirements:
- Frequently moves boxes weighing up to 15 pounds
Location:
- San Diego
Travel:
- Domestic travel up to 10%
Job Type:
- Full-time//Exempt
Base Compensation Pay Range:
- $75,000 - $91,000
In addition to base compensation noted above, you will be eligible for stock options, discretionary annual bonus, no cost health insurance plans, 401k with company match, and flexible paid time off.
Please note: Base compensation will depend on multiple factors, including geographic location, qualifications, and experience.
We foster an environment such that all people are afforded the freedom to pursue their passions without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristics protected by law.
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What We Do
Element Biosciences is a multi-disciplinary startup focused on innovating genetic analysis tools for the research and diagnostic markets. We are developing a modular and high-performing DNA sequencing platform that will deliver high-quality data, increase workflow flexibility, and make next-generation sequencing technology more accessible. Our proprietary approach to improving the signal-to-noise ratio allows us to provide groundbreaking innovations in surface chemistry, instrumentation, and biochemistry to drastically decrease run costs and capital costs while delivering high sequencing data quality.
