Responsibilities
About the role
- 50% Customer Care (non-voice email + live chat tickets)
- 25% Operations (order fulfillment, maintaining database, etc)
- 25% Virtual/Exec Assistant/Other Projects (ad hoc initiatives/tasks for founders)
Customer Care
We want a detail-oriented independent self-starter who loves helping customers solve their problems throughout their purchase journey with us. You are someone who is willing to invest time in understanding our product, how it works, and why it’s so important for our customers to get the right dental care product to ensure healthy teeth. You’re also willing to deeply troubleshoot more complex customer concerns as it relates to their dental product. You’ll be at the front-line in communication and represent the voice of our brand, helping answer pre-purchase through post-sales tickets through email, chat, and social media.
Operations
You’ll also be responsible for managing the day-to-day of our ecommerce operations which includes coordinating customer orders, fulfilling and managing shipments through our logistics partners, and maintaining the customer database used by our Lab team, and other operational tasks.
VA/EA Support
As we’re a small team, you’ll also be supporting the two co-founders of the company directly with executive assistant related tasks, including research, data-related, other ad-hoc miscellaneous tasks to support their other business and initiatives.
What you’ll be doing:
- Helping our customers via email and live chat and guiding them through our product journey (pre and post purchase)
- Support more complex ‘Level 2’ customer service issues involving their custom made dental product by understanding our product deeply and collaborating with team members via Slack
- Communicate with customers in a conversational style that’s friendly and helpful, yet credible, concise, and informative at the same time
- Managing orders with our ecommerce and shipping systems on-time and accurately, including processing, fulfilling, and updating orders
- Update our customer database and maintain real-time accuracy to ensure the lab team has the most current information
- Update the team through Slack and ensure all the information is extremely accurate and shared with relevant team members
- Support the founders with virtual/executive assistant type tasks and other project initiatives outside the company (e.g. information gathering, research, data entry, admin work, etc)
Platforms Used
- Gorgias (email ticketing)
- Slack (team communication)
- Airtable (CRM/database)
- ShipStation (shipping software)
- ShipBob (3rd party warehouse fulfillment)
- Shopify (e-commerce software)
Qualifications
Who are we looking for?
- Proven experience in customer service roles for ecommerce (3+ years ideal)
- Extremely detail-oriented and highly organized (notices errors and things that may fall through the cracks)
- Highly flexible and adaptable, no job is beneath you, ability to flex between different tasks
- Independent strong multi-tasker and great with moving parts
- Ability to navigate different platforms and data sets (experience with more complex datasets/analytics/reporting is ideal)
- Good critical thinking and problem-solving skills (ability to dive deep into a customer support issue)
- Excellent writing skills with as close to native English as possible – able to communicate concepts and information logically, clearly and concisely (excellent spelling and grammar are a must)
Must Haves
- Proven Customer Support experience, ideally with more complex products/services/processes (healthcare a plus)
- Extremely detail-oriented and understands the importance of getting details right and has obsession and focus to make sure work is accurate
- Get it done attitude and a personal drive and ownership to do the best work possible
- Technology savvy and able to learn new processes and platforms easily
- Willingness to handle all types of tasks, beyond customer care and into other ad-hoc projects co-founders
- Prior remote work experience working in our time zone
- High WPM typing speed preferred
Deal Breakers
- Poor attention to detail
- Slow learner
- Lack of ownership in work and/or inability to flex different job tasks (ìnot my jobî attitude)
- Lack of willingness to deeply understand our dental product
Screening Criteria
- MUST HAVE STABLE EMPLOYMENT HISTORY.
- 3 years of experience in customer service roles for ecommerce
- Experience in e-mail, chat support and/or VA/EA role