Technical Product Support Specialist

Podium is seeking the next candidate to join our amazing Technical Product Support team. The Technical Product Support Specialist is a critically important role for Podium as we continually develop products and scale our customer service offerings. Sitting with our Product Support team, your primary responsibilities are to own specific products from a technical perspective, ensure quick escalation and resolution of issues, effectively report feedback and feature requests, provide internal documentation and training to the broader Support team with best practices and comprehensive detail - a true 360 degree expert in the given product(s). You will work closely with cross-functional teams such as Product, Engineering, and Product Support to ensure we provide the highest level of service and resolution to our customers, aligned with goals of overall customer satisfaction and maximized net retention. 

The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity and drives innovation with a founder mentality. While this role is not purely customer-facing in nature, you will be involved in escalations and resolution, and will join customer meetings when appropriate. Technical Product Support Specialists will report directly to the Technical Product Support Manager. 

What You Will Do:

• Troubleshoot & resolve challenging issues, ensuring customers can easily see value with Podium
• Serve as a point of escalation, vetting legitimacy of product-related issues in Support
• Develop system for feedback loops in close collaboration with the Product team
• Build an efficient and effective system of troubleshooting, documentation, escalation and prioritization of product-related issues or requests
• Create and regularly update internal documentation of our products and process
• Train the broader Support teams on our products, new features and best practices
• Maintain open communication channels within the broader Support and Product teams
• Recommend and potentially deploy fixes for vetted code-related issues, working with Product & Engineering
• Serve as the Voice of the Customer, socializing organized qualitative and quantitative data to cross-functional partners to improve our products
• Work cross-functionally with Podium teams on various ad-hoc initiatives to enhance the customer experience
• Resolve escalated cases promptly while holding Product and Engineering accountable to established Service Level Agreements.

What You Should Have:

• Customer-first attitude with a strong sense of empathy
• Experience in Product or Technical Support
• Ability to drive innovation and efficiency in an unstructured environment
• Familiarity with modern web services, APIs and scripting languages 
• Analytical and data-oriented approach to problem-solving
  
  

How You Will Stand Out:

• Experience leading people or processes
• A proven track record of adding real value at a dynamic and fast-growth company
• Experience with modern web services, like HTML and Javascript  
• Familiarity with scripting languages and analytical languages such as SQL and python  
• Software development experience or ability
• Strategic and creative problem solving 
• Bachelor's degree in STEM

BENEFITS

• Open and transparent culture
• Awesome opportunities for career growth
• 401k with a competitive matching contribution plan
• Unlimited vacation (yes, we want you to have a work-life balance)
• Great medical, dental, vision benefits
• An onsite gym with local professional coaches
• Life insurance, long and short-term disability coverage
• Paid maternity and paternity leave
• Weekly free lunch and smoothies (Doordash credit for remote employees)
• Swag

Podium is an equal opportunity employer. Podium provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information, marital status or veteran status.