Technical Support Specialist, Hospitality, German Speaking
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Technical Support Specialist supporting German-speaking hospitality merchants on Lightspeed’s commerce platform. Troubleshooting escalations, training staff, and driving POS feature adoption.
Responsibilities:
- Provide premium technical assistance and white-glove customer service to Strategic Accounts via email, phone, video, and on-site engagements.
- Identify and recommend best practices to help high-value clients streamline operations and maximize the Lightspeed ecosystem.
- Partner with Implementation teams on warm handoffs for new Strategic accounts.
- Collaborate with Strategic Account Managers to manage daily operations, resolve complex issues, and improve the customer journey.
- Lead unified customer meetings to review requests, forecast requirements, and mitigate risks.
- Conduct remote or on-site account health syncs to drive feature adoption and measurable client growth.
- Provide training to new and existing customer staff.
- Advocate for product enhancements with Product and Development teams.
- Manage high-stakes technical escalations end-to-end, including technical resolution, executive communication, and stakeholder feedback.
- Use diagnostic techniques to isolate root causes and resolve escalated issues.
- Document account complexities and resolutions for global Support teams.
- Write and maintain troubleshooting guides, testing procedures, and internal documentation; track software defects.
- Develop technical expertise across Lightspeed hospitality platforms.
- Contribute to wider team objectives beyond the strict scope of the role.
Requirements:
- This role is open to candidates located in Berlin.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in German and English.
- Extensive customer service experience in a technical support role.
- Prior experience in the Hospitality industry.
- Ability to self-manage incoming emails, telephone calls, video calls, meetings, and on-site visits based on priority and customer commitments.
- Strong computer skills and working knowledge of Mac OS.
- Proven troubleshooting skills in a senior support position.
- Strong problem-solving skills to ensure customers use their POS to its full capacity.
- Ability to manage technical escalations of at-risk accounts and identify growth opportunities.
- Flexibility in your schedule to work.
- Knowledge of networking or network support experience is advantageous, but not necessary.
- Understanding of API relevant to SaaS and experience supporting this is advantageous, but not necessary.
- Prior consultant experience is advantageous, but not necessary.
Benefits:
- Equity options in the form of Restricted Share Units (RSUs)
- Health & Wellness credit
- Career development and internal mobility opportunities
- One paid day off per year to volunteer
- Access to professional or coaching services through health apps
- Additional benefits depending on the country of residence
- Inclusive and barrier-free workplace accommodations




















