Everyone is welcome at Handshake. We know diverse teams build better products and we are committed to creating an inclusive culture built on a foundation of respect for all individuals. We strongly encourage candidates from non-traditional backgrounds, historically marginalized or underrepresented groups to apply.

Location: Remote (U.S. Only - AZ, DC, CA, CO, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, NC, NM, NV, NJ, NY, OR, PA, SD, TN, TX, VA, WA, WI) 

Hours: Monday through Friday, 8am - 5pm in your time zone (unless otherwise noted in hiring process).

Your impact:

Handshake is looking to bring on a Support Specialist, Contractor to provide support to our employer, student, and career services users. This role is a 6 month contract with the possibility of contract extension or conversion to our permanent Support Specialist role upon evaluation of fit for the role and company needs. If you are resourceful and attuned to detail, love digging into a complex and technical product, building strong relationships with customers and team members, and solving a wide variety of questions, bugs, and workflow needs - this is the role for you! 

You will work closely with our Support Team to provide efficient and effective support and contribute to an overall seamless experience for users. You will help unblock our users, share trends and learnings with the Support Team, and continue to improve the customer experience and our team operations. As an advocate for our career centers, students, and employer users, you’ll improve the Handshake user experience and make an impact on our mission to democratize opportunity.

Your role:

• Contribute 40 hours per week during our business hours, Monday through Friday. Provide amazing email and phone support to Handshake customers via internal ticketing systems. Your day-to-day will consist of:

  • 90%: resolving questions, bugs, feedback, and general inquiries. See daily averages below:

    • Ticket Volume: ~20 - 30 email tickets per day

    • Phone Volume: ~10 calls over a 4 hour daily phone shift

  • 5%: attending team meetings (1-3 per week)

  • 5%: completing administrative tasks (emails, checking daily announcements, training, etc.)

• Note: email and phone tickets will involve highly technical troubleshooting and workflows, building and troubleshooting custom reports, and making sure to provide tailored, personal responses while building relationships

• Use app demo environments, troubleshooting tools, help center, team communication channels, and internal documentation systems to find the quality answer for a wide range of users

• Maintain a standard level of excellence in regards to response times, resolution times, equal share of queue, and the quality of the customer support experience

• Be both a support specialist and an experienced consultant for users of the Handshake platform

Utilize internal tools to manage issues between Customer Support, Customer Success, Product, and Engineering

Your experience:

• Location: if working from home, you must be located in AZ, DC, CA, CO, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, NC, NM, NV, NJ, NY, OR, PA, SD, TN, TX, VA, WA, or WI.

• Technical Aptitude: Ability to learn technical tools and concepts quickly

• Resilience: Comfort with change and ambiguity. We’re a growing startup and always refining processes, tools, etc!

• Teamwork: Connects with teammates and actively builds a sense of community on Support and with other teams. Collaborates with manager and team on daily or weekly guidance on ticket workflows and prioritization.

• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a clear ability to communicate complex topics with simple language. 

• Results oriented and ownership: Ability to maintain or exceed ticket and quality goals. High level of self accountability and integrity for processes and metrics. 

• Passion for the problem: Desire to help give people the chance to build the career they want, no matter where they're from or what school they attend

• EQ: A strong sense of empathy with users of our products and cross functional partners 

• Critical Thinking: