Technical Support Specialist
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Fin is the AI Customer Agent company 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 for one single system that is designed to meet the needs of modern day support teams. Founded in 2011, Fin became one of the fastest growing companies and remains one of the largest private software companies in the world with nearly 30,000 global businesses using our products to transform their customer support. Driven by our core values, we push boundaries, build with speed and intensity, and relentlessly deliver incredible value to our customers. 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. 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 works and what it is capable of. 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, Ch