Float is the world’s leading software for teams to plan their time and, behind it, is a world-class team looking for a Customer Support Specialist (Americas) in Mountain or Pacific time zones (candidates in South America, Canada or Mexico locations only please) to join us. From New York to the UK, Canada to South Africa—our Engineering, Product, Marketing, and Customer Success teams work asynchronously, helping brands such as Airbnb, Buzzfeed, and Ogilvy plan and manage their time better. Float is self-funded, profitable, and growing. If you’re align with our values, and are looking to join a team that’s passionate about helping others work and live more productively, we want to hear from you. Here are a few tips from our CEO to make sure your resume stands out from the crowd.
Why We’re Hiring For This Role
Helping customers succeed requires a great product and support from a team of experts that can help facilitate and realize the product's potential. The quality in which we deliver support is one of our competitive advantages, and accelerates our opportunity to be successful as a category-leading service. At a fundamental level, it’s core to our service level offering that we provide customer support during typical business hours worldwide.
With our primary customer regions being EMEA and Americas, we look to have a full Support team that is able to tackle our inbound support requests and also identify opportunities to be proactive and improve the overall customer experience. Our team, although small, covers the full customer journey - from first learning how to use Float, setting up billing and invoices, troubleshooting bugs and issues, sharing feedback and feature requests, and assisting with account changes.
Our Director of Customer Success, Alison, explains the important role you will play within our Customer Success team. Watch this video.
You’ll be working asynchronously with a bright, dedicated team from across the globe, with a strong focus on finding solutions for our customer community.
What You’ll Be Responsible For
Our support department is our front-line team who works hands-on with our customers to answer questions, provide troubleshooting for bugs and issues, and manage our inbound sales leads.
In the first few months your main priority will be:
Understanding the ins and outs of Float to become a product expert.
Take a shift of inbound tickets through Intercom and help address questions, feature requests, or bugs. The best way to learn is to jump right in!
Start the troubleshooting process for customer issues and bugs and identify escalations for Tier 2.
Contribute to enhancing our existing support collateral (internal training library, FAQ content, macros) to improve the quality and efficiency of our responses.
Share feature requests from users in Canny and additional feedback to our Product team
As you’ve become more comfortable in the role you’ll:
Using reporting to identify opportunities to improve efficiency in how we address tickets or escalate issues.
Collaborate with other teams like Sales, Account Management, Marketing, and Product.
Identify projects that directly impact our OKRs and plan how to implement them.
Create new resources to improve the self-service model of support.
Have the opportunity to have a real impact on our growing team!
What You’ll Need To Be Successful
We want you to love your work and believe that these skills will allow you to succeed in the role.
Applying these skills requires:
Proven experience successfully working in a SaaS-based Customer Support team
Vibrant, clear, communication skills - delivers messages clearly and efficiently, and can speak to different skill or knowledge levels
Expert with ticketing tools like Intercom (preferred, we use it), Zendesk, or Help Scout
Natural problem solver with a moderate understanding of technical concepts like APIs and finding errors in the Dev Tools in a browser
Comfortable using video, screenshots, or email to solve customer issues effectively
As a fully remote team, we’re looking for someone comfortable with asynchronous communication as the default, which means you have previous remote experience and are comfortable using tools like Slack, Loom, and Asana to communicate as needed. Don’t worry—you will have significant deep work time since we have very few meetings.
Why Join Us
We’re a global company with a diverse team of folks from all over the world who share a common belief in living our best work life. That includes a flexible asynchronous policy that allows you to work whenever you work best, minimal meetings, annual team meetups, and perks and benefits that support your personal health and well-being.
Our growing range of perks and benefits include:
Home office expense budget
Co-working expense budget
Health & fitness budget
Annual team meetup
Care for your community donation or leave
We understand that you probably want to learn a bit more about us as well, so here are some resources to get a sense of who we are and how we work:
The salary for this role is US $94,947 (Level 3). Here’s a blog post with more information on how we determine our salaries.
Note: Industry research shows that women and those in traditionally underrepresented groups generally don’t apply to jobs unless they check all the boxes for the role. If you feel strongly that you have what it takes for this role but don’t check 100% of the boxes—that’s okay—we encourage you to apply anyway and highlight what you can bring to the table.
Hiring Process For This Role
You’ll find a lot of useful information about our interview process and what it’s like to join our global team on the Float careers page. The hiring process for this role looks like this:
Initial First Meeting: If your application is shortlisted, you will have a 15-minute meeting with our Talent team. This meeting gives us an opportunity to learn more about your experience and also allows you to ask any questions you have about the role.
Manager Interview: You’ll meet with Alison, our Director of Customer Success, for a more technical interview. This is generally a 45-minute interview that will take a deep dive into your customer support skills and experience.
Founder Interview: As the final step in the interview process, you’ll meet with Glenn, Float’s CEO, for a 30-minute interview.
Reference Chats: We ask for a prior manager reference and we also connect you with a Float team member so can ask those important questions to help you make the best decision as well.
Our hiring process takes an average of 29 days from the first interview to a job offer (based on 2022 data). The Talent team will be in touch each step of the way to ensure that you are well informed and aware of the next step in the process.
Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications, we only contact candidates who have been shortlisted for the role. If you do not hear from us within 14 business days of submitting your application, we encourage you to apply for another role in the future.
