Customer Support Specialist
Plane is looking for a Customer Support Specialist to join our dedicated team! About Plane Plane simplifies payroll, benefits, and compliance for companies managing international teams. We believe talent and opportunities shouldn't be limited by geography, and we help our customers embrace this vision every day. What you will be working on Assisting Plane users and guiding them through product to maximize their experience. Work closely with operations and product teams to address and resolve various reported issues. Resolving problems efficiently, directly influencing customer satisfaction and demonstrating a genuine commitment to ensuring our users' happiness. Actively contributing to our Help Center by sharing your expertise and insights through the creation of Help Center articles. Work with our payment providers to manage additional KYC requests, verifications, and tracking the status of individual payments. Collaborating with the Support team to update internal knowledge base and documentation, to improve our collective understanding of internal processes and users challenges. Daily tasks: Handle all support questions, requests or complaints from our users through Chat, Email and Slack messages. Escalate issues to Operation (Hire and Pay), Product, and Engineering team using various tools. Take care of additional payment KYC requests. Responsible for various manual processes required to meet the users need (e.g. creating manual payments; custom reports; reviewing worker’s profile; analyze payment, payroll or invoice information, etc.) Writing and updating Help Center articles Writing and updating internal knowledge base and documentation for team reference Skill and trait requirements: Excellent communication skills. Speak English really well, both writing and speaking Empathetic, capable of addressing repetitive questions with understanding and compassion Problem solving skill, with willingness to investigate multiple resources to efficiently resolve users issues Effective time management and multitasking ability to prioritize tasks and assist multiple users at the same time Strong work ethics, able to take initiative and work independently with little to no supervision Reliable, and willing to take full ownership of each tasks or requests Flexible and adaptable to new information or unexpected challenges as they arise Previous experience in customer support or direct customer-facing roles Have remote work experience Experience in handling international individual payments Experience in assisting customer and employee onboarding Experience with products related to global payroll, benefits, or compliance for international workers Technical: Familiarity in customer relationship management (CRM) software (Intercom, Front, Zendesk, etc.) and help desk ticketing systems Proficiency in email and chat communication platforms Basic technical troubleshooting skills Ability to quickly learn new technologies Tools that we use the most: Intercom JIRA Linear Slack Notion Working schedules: We aim to have 24/5 Support so, we’re looking for someone who willing to work: Mon to Fri Working hours: Between 2 AM to 2 PM EST Preferred time zones: GMT+2 to GMT+5 Preferred regions: East Africa, Eastern Europe, Western Africa Coverage: Overlap with US morning hours Each teammate has different working hours If someone from the team is on leave, we may require you to adjust working hours You are required to work different hours during onboarding and training (approx 1 to 2 months) before transitioning to your regular schedule afterwards Benefits Annual salary from $39,000 and equity Unlimited vacation policy Private health insurance coverage Parental leave Company hardware and remote stipend At Plane, every team member plays a crucial role. We're looking for ambitious individuals with a mindset to tackle challenges together. We believe small teams of amazing people can achieve outsized results, driven by a strong commitment to quality and customer satisfaction. Each member of our crew contributes to product excellence by understanding customer preferences, needs, and expectations. We strongly believe in our mission to increase globalization by helping companies hire and pay talent worldwide. If this sounds fun, we'd love to hear from you!