Zendesk Customer Success Consultant

Who We Are

Welcome to TELUS Digital — where innovation drives impact at a global scale. As an award-winning digital product consultancy and the digital division of TELUS, one of Canada’s largest telecommunications providers, we design and deliver transformative customer experiences through cutting-edge technology, agile thinking, and a people-first culture.

With a global team across North America, South America, Central America, Europe, Africa, and APAC, we offer end-to-end expertise across eight core service areas: Digital Product Consulting, Digital Marketing Services, Data & AI, Strategy Consulting, Business Operations Modernization, Enterprise Applications, Cloud Engineering, and QA & Test Engineering.

From mobile apps and websites to voice UI, chatbots, AI, customer service, and in-store solutions, TELUS Digital enables seamless, trusted, and digitally powered experiences that meet customers wherever they are — all backed by the secure infrastructure and scale of our multi-billion-dollar parent company.

Location & Flexibility

Our Zendesk Customer Success Manager will be an integral part of our CX Platforms Team at TELUS Digital. This role will have the option to be in a Work From Near (Hybrid) capacity based out of one of the following offices: Charlottesville, VA, Durham, NC, Columbus, OH, or Boston, MA, OR in a Work From Anywhere (Remote) capacity from within the U.S.

The Opportunity

TELUS Digital is seeking an exceptional Zendesk Customer Success Consultant (AI & Support Ops) to help clients accelerate value from their Zendesk and Zendesk for Contact Center solutions. This role requires deep Zendesk expertise, a customer-centric consulting approach, and the ability to deliver hands-on configuration and practical solutions in a fast-paced, agile environment. This is primarily a managed services and post-go-live optimization role, with the opportunity to lead AI expert advisory engagements as part of our services.

As part of our customer success, managed services, and support operations consulting team, you will partner with client stakeholders and TELUS Digital delivery teams to optimize Zendesk solutions after go-live. You will lead post-go-live support and optimization by triaging issues, identifying root causes, implementing configuration enhancements, and advising on best practices to improve efficiency, agent experience, and resolution outcomes. You will also enable teams through documentation, training, and change adoption.

A core focus of this role is AI adoption and optimization to increase automated and assisted resolution. You will accelerate customers’ time to value by driving adoption and operational excellence for Zendesk AI, from initial deployment through scale, leveraging capabilities such as Copilot, automation, bots, and QA features to increase productivity, improve resolution rates, and enhance self-service and reporting.

This role also supports TELUS Digital’s AI advisory offerings, providing phased guidance and ongoing optimization for Zendesk AI Agents and/or Zendesk Copilot. This role is ideal for someone passionate about improving customer experiences and energized by continuous optimization of Zendesk and AI-enabled support operations.

Responsibilities

• Managed Services Delivery & Customer Success

  • Deliver billable managed services for Zendesk and Zendesk Contact Center, focused on platform health, adoption, and measurable outcomes

  • Manage a portfolio backlog of optimization, maintenance, and enhancement requests, including intake, scoping, prioritization, and progress updates

  • Respond to reactive requests while providing proactive recommendations to improve performance and adoption

  • Coordinate escalations and high-impact issues, communicating clearly and driving resolution to maintain customer confidence

• Support Operations Advisory & Optimization

  • Lead discovery and needs assessments to understand support goals, pain points, and constraints

  • Advise clients on best practices across ticket lifecycle, SLAs, routing, escalation, and agent workflows

  • Translate operational recommendations into practical platform changes and process improvements

• Zendesk Administration & Configuration

  • Configure and optimize Zendesk capabilities across Support, Guide, Messaging, and voice or contact center workflows

  • Build and maintain workflows using Zendesk configuration tools such as triggers, au