Consumer Support Specialist

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Consumer Support Specialist supporting Perplexity AI’s AI-powered search users across channels. Troubleshooting products, surfacing user insights, and automating support operations.

Responsibilities:

  • Handle high volumes of user inquiries across email, chat, Slack, and community channels for consumer and business users
  • Deliver clear, thoughtful, and human customer support at scale
  • Triage and prioritize inquiries to meet response and resolution targets
  • Use customer feedback to identify product issues, UX confusion, and feature gaps
  • Investigate and troubleshoot product issues, reproduce problems, isolate root causes, and provide solutions or workarounds
  • Guide users through technical troubleshooting involving AI search, LLM behavior, and account configuration
  • File well-documented bugs in Linear for Engineering
  • Build and use AI tooling and automation, including Intercom workflows and scripts, to streamline operations
  • Write and maintain Help Center articles, internal SOPs, escalation playbooks, and troubleshooting guides
  • Communicate user insights and escalations to Product and Engineering, close the loop, and keep teammates informed
  • Track support KPIs and propose data-driven process improvements

Requirements:

  • 3+ years in customer support, user operations, or technical support, ideally at a SaaS or tech company
  • Ability to manage high ticket volumes while maintaining quality and empathy
  • Excellent customer-facing communication skills
  • Technical aptitude and ability to troubleshoot product issues independently
  • Hands-on experience with AI tools and automation platforms, including Intercom workflows and scripting
  • Familiarity with AI, LLMs, or search technologies
  • Strong internal and cross-functional communication skills
  • Self-motivated and proactive approach
  • Experience creating user-facing documentation and internal SOPs, templates, and playbooks
  • Experience with multi-channel support operations, including standing up, optimizing, or scaling support structures and routing
  • Comfort working in a fast-paced, high-volume startup environment with shifting priorities
  • Familiarity with Intercom, Parahelp, Linear, Notion, or Stripe
  • Familiarity with prompting techniques and LLM optimization
  • Basic understanding of HTTP, REST APIs, JavaScript, and HTML
  • Experience with SQL, Looker, or Snowflake
  • Scripting or lightweight automation experience with Google Apps Script or Python
  • Experience at an early-stage or high-growth startup

Benefits:

  • Equity
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Retirement benefits
  • Fitness benefits
  • Commuter benefits
  • Dependent care accounts
  • Regionally tailored benefits for full-time employees outside the U.S.