Customer Support Team Lead - Internal Job Posting

＜日本語は英文の後に続きます。＞

Since 1998, we've been on a mission to reshape how players interact with their favorite games, growing into a global team of over 12,000 professionals spread across 70+ studios in 26 countries. 

We are always there to lend a hand to video games developers and publishers by offering a wide range of solutions: from art and audio to testing, localization and finally - Player Engagement - which is one of the fastest-growing Service Lines at Keywords Studios.  Player Engagement provides technical support, community management, and trust & safety services for a wide range of AAA and Indie studios in the gaming industry. 

Join us in our mission to build engaging player communities and offer outstanding experiences! 🎮🔥

Role overview

As the Player Engagement Team Lead, you will play a very important role in ensuring the success of our projects, being the bridge between Keywords Studios and our valued clients. You will be in charge of critical tasks, ensuring that everything runs smoothly and efficiently. One important part of your mission would be to lead, motivate, coach and train teams as well as creating schedules and performing tasks based on the clients’ requirements. 🚀🔥

What are we looking for?

Leadership:

• Manage, set goals, and lead teams of specialists of varied sizes, both locally and remote.
• Proactively address project issues with teams and Project Manager to prevent disruptions.
• Uphold studio policy, process, and security standards as well as ensuring that project-related knowledge bases are up-to-date.
• Serve as an escalation point for client's customer issues.
• Train, coach shift leads, and conduct weekly one-on-one coaching sessions.
• Provide appropriate positive recognition and disciplinary warnings.
• Manage vacation requests, monitor attendance, and address lateness or absences.

Analytics:

• Monitor and manage ticket databases to ensure project KPIs and SLAs are met.
• Regularly review daily reports to identify and resolve anomalies.
• Create CRM/tool views for enhanced visibility and reporting.
• Good understanding of Player Support tools and processes, key support metrics, and how to apply them.
• Ability to read/interpret reports.

Communication:

• Maintain awareness of project status and provide regular reports to Operations Manager.
• Conduct regular quality control checks, identifying coaching opportunities within project processes.

Business:

• Create CRM/tool views for enhanced visibility and reporting.
• Develop training materials and assist in identifying areas for training material enhancement.
  

Requirements

• Over 2 years’ experience in player support or customer support equivalent. 
• Business level Japanese language skills & Business level English language skills. 

You'd be a great fit for this role if you have:

• Ability to multitask and prioritize efficiently; work well under pressure and be flexible to change
• Strong leadership skills and decision-making abilities; power to lead by example, encouraging others to keep a high standard of accuracy
• Conflict management skills and providing constructive feedback
• Ability to understand and meet deadlines
• Self-motivation, innovative and analytical skills with strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to evaluate personnel and identify talent 
• Familiarity with Helpshift, Zendesk or other ticketing platforms, Google suite
• Flexibility with working weekends
  

Benefits

• Fixed term contract (契約社員)

• Social insurance (Health insurance, Pension, Unemployment, Worker’s accident compensation) 
• Commuting Allowance : Up to ¥30,000/Month
• Work from home allowance : Up to ¥10,000/Month
• Paid Annual Leave
• Sick Leave
• Special Leave
• Employee Referral Program
• Language Program
• Employee Assistance Program (professional consultation/mental health support program)
• Relo Club Program (employee benefit program)
• No smoking in workspace (designated smoking room available)
• Medical check-up
• Casual dress and hairstyle
• Numerous internal social events / Company Events

待遇・福利厚生

• 雇用形態：契約社員
• 社会保険完備
• 交通費支給（月額 3 万円を上限とし、オフィスへの出社日数に応じて実費支給）
• 在宅勤務手当（月額上限1万円）
• 有給休暇
• 傷病休暇
• 特別休暇
• 社員紹介制度
• 語学プログラム（日本語／英語のレッスンサポート、資格取得サポート）
• EAP従業員支援プログラム
• 福利厚生プログラム（リロクラブ）
• 屋内原則禁煙（オフィス内に喫煙室あり）
• 健康診断（年1回）
• 服装、髪型自由
• 社内イベント（お花