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Rakuten Advertising · 2 weeks ago

Team Lead, Customer Support

Rakuten International is a division of Rakuten Group, Inc., a Japanese global technology leader in services that empower individuals, communities, businesses and society. As a Team Lead in Customer Support, you will support the team, maintain/improve team operations, and serve as a point of contact between the client facing and technology teams.

AdvertisingDigital Marketing

Responsibilities

Work closely with support agents and leads to encourage and ensure high performance team-wide
Interface and collaborate with other support teams (Tier 2, Writing team) to ensure appropriate product and process knowledge is shared across the larger support team
Establish and maintain relationships with tech teams responsible for major technology platforms and initiatives and ensure that support needs are addressed with both new product development and ongoing product life-cycle efforts
Support company and Rakuten group people initiatives as well as process improvement and automation
Compile and provide reports on a weekly and monthly basis
Maintain and be able to speak to KPI’s to upper management
Ensure best-in-class support outcomes – CSAT, first response time, and resolution times to drive continuous improvement, etc
Responding to escalations from support agents in a timely manner, aiding with specific tickets and client concerns
Encourage learning and growth of the support agents through escalated tickets and other touch points
Creating/updating team SOP documentation and providing refreshers to the team as needed
Responding to escalated customer queries in a timely and accurate way
Helping key customers use specific products and features
Effectively communicating complex technical concepts and principles with a wide ranging technical and non-technical audience
Document, investigate, triage, and report to technical team, system bugs and issues through our issue tracking system
Monitor ticket/issue status to the point of resolution, ensuring compliance to team SLAs
Collaborate with technical writing team, requesting new/updated content when needed and review content as subject matter expert
Active participation in process improvement and automation initiatives
Work closely with product team members to improve systems and make enhancements to our products for our customers
Maintain knowledge and understanding of Rakuten Advertising’s tracking solutions and services

Qualification

Customer support experienceTechnical support experienceKPI reportingMicrosoft OfficeJira familiarityZendesk familiarityAnalytical skillsMulti-tasking skillsCommercial awarenessCommunicationOrganizational skillsTime-management skills

Required

4-year college degree or equivalent professional experience
2+ years' experience with a mix of customer and technical support in the web domain utilizing structured tools and methodology
Experience as point of escalation for one's team
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to interface with multiple teams and multiple levels of management
Good organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills
Strong analytical and organizational skills
Experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook)
Strong commercial awareness; understands the impact of decisions on Company's short and long-term goals; shows good judgement

Preferred

Experience with ecommerce and online advertising desired
Familiarity with Jira and Zendesk ticketing platforms

Benefits

Discretionary bonus
Health
Vision
Dental insurance
401k matching
PTO
Volunteer Time Off (VTO)
Other employee benefits

Company

Rakuten Advertising

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Rakuten Advertising provides affiliate marketing, machine learning and digital media solutions.

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage

Leadership Team

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Nick Stamos
CEO
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Edouard Lauwick
Senior Vice President, Region, Southern EU
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