Customer Support Specialist – AU Shift

Posted 9hrs ago

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Customer Support Specialist leading email, chat and phone support for Contour’s education brands. Coaching agents and automating repetitive student and parent inquiries.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the Support team serving students and parents through email, live chat and phone
  • Report to the Customer Support Manager
  • Work the queue daily and personally handle the hardest cases and escalations
  • Keep inbox and chat moving and response times within agreed limits
  • Train, onboard, shadow and coach support agents
  • Review agent replies and calls and provide actionable same-day feedback
  • Score samples of replies and calls against quality standards
  • Identify recurring mistakes and fix them through coaching, macros or knowledge-base improvements
  • Write and maintain macros, SOPs and help-centre pages
  • Set up ticket routing, tagging, auto-replies and HubSpot workflows
  • Test and improve chatbots and AI agents that draft, summarise or answer common questions
  • Ensure human review of cases that automation cannot solve
  • Track automation accuracy, errors and weekly time savings
  • Take calls as the phone service launches and build call guides with the Manager
  • Coach agents through their first live calls
  • Handover payment cases to the Payments coordinator and academic questions to Academics with complete records
  • End each shift with actionable notes for the Australia team
  • Share daily snapshots of queue status, response times and quality per agent
  • Propose and implement better tools for manual processes

Requirements:

  • 2–4 years in customer support as your main line of work
  • Hundreds of customer cases handled personally via email, chat or phone, including angry or emotional cases
  • Experience training or coaching agents and improving their quality or speed
  • Authored a macro, SOP, help article or quality checklist still used by the team
  • Personally set up an automation such as a ticket workflow, chatbot, AI agent or no-code pipeline that reduced manual work
  • Strong knowledge of a ticketing tool such as HubSpot, Freshdesk, Zendesk, Intercom or similar, including views, rules and workflows
  • Experience keeping a shift or queue covered when the lead or manager was away
  • Excellent spoken and written English, clear and easy for an Australian parent to follow
  • Strong comprehension of Australian, UK and other international accents at natural speed
  • Composure during difficult calls
  • Australian cultural fluency, including casual phrasing, first-name rapport and directness
  • Experience on an Australian process in voice, chat or email is advantageous; UK or New Zealand process experience also counts
  • Hands-on experience with AI agents or LLM tools for support is nice to have
  • EdTech or education background is nice to have
  • IELTS, PTE or Cambridge C1 Advanced is helpful but not required
  • Phone support alongside chat and email is nice to have

Benefits:

  • Fully remote, anywhere in India
  • Comfortable working across the India and Australia time difference
  • Competitive compensation benchmarked to the role and experience
  • Open discussion of compensation early in the process