Professional Technical Support Specialist

Turnitin is a global organization that partners with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Our company has over 25 years of experience in the education space.

The Technical Support Representative will assist the Tier 1 Support team by liaising between Support, Development, and Product teams. These experts are part of the technical leaders within the Assessment Delivery Operations and Support department (ADOS), providing regular feedback and updates on client issues with the product to both the internal ADOS Technical Support team and internal stakeholders.

Similar to the Tier 1 team, the Technical Support Representative works to establish if reported bugs are reproducible and create detailed escalations for Tier 3 by gathering logs and providing imperative information surrounding the issue.

Armed with this knowledge, these experts act as an informal escalation point for any questions the broader support may have about our products. Liaising with Tier 3, they give proactive feedback and input to Product, Internal Support, and Quality and Knowledge teams to improve the support we deliver to customers.

This role provides a high level of responsibility, being the first internal point of contact on our products and a Technical Support representative for customers externally and colleagues internally. Together with their fellow colleagues, they report issues and identify bugs for escalation to our Tier 3 engineers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Be available to receive live daily calls, emails, and chats to Triage, and action escalations from Tier 1.
• Provide world-class technical support via telephone, email, and chat for customers experiencing escalated technical issues.
• Maintain consistent ticket quality, achieving the agreed-upon target for monthly reviews.
• Proactively support users of our products (administrators, instructors, teaching assistants, exam takers, and proctors) ensuring problem resolution, system access, optimal system performance, and overall customer happiness.
• Become a Subject Matter Expert on all our Assessment Products and services.
• Attend Stand-Up meetings with support leadership teams to provide meaningful input from our customers.
• Be the first to identify issues and trends with our support leadership and tier 3 teams to understand issues/trends.
• Share your knowledge across the team through informal training and team meetings & stand-ups.
• Support the Quality and Knowledge team with the creation of training modules.
• Point of contact for shadowing new team members.
• Project work during quieter spells to improve team knowledge and processes.
• Prioritize escalated tickets to the Tier 3 team.
• Ensure efficient transfer of information between Tier 1 and support leadership teams.
• Work closely with our Integrations Team.
• Review top issues monthly for external education and ticket reduction.

People Skills:

• Translate technical information into customer-friendly explanations and understandable terms for clients, the Technical Support Team, and other departments.
• Recognize situations that need to be de-escalated or resolved appropriately.
• Consistently maintain effective communication with nearshore teams to enhance the customer experience.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and multi-task.
• Excel at developing and maintaining good working relationships between Tier 1, Tier 2, Product, Integrations, and Support Leadership teams.
• Champion customer centricity at all times, understanding when to push back on advice that does not meet our customer's expectations.
• Actively collaborate with team members on all tasks, projects, and assignments to resolve complex issues.

Work Hours & Shift Assignments

• Training Period: US Central Time.

• Shift-Based Work: The successful hire(s) may be assigned a rotating shift schedule, including some weekends, as we operate with 24/7 global support coverage.

Essential:

• 2 years of Customer Support Experience.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• Strong working knowledge of Windows and Mac OS.
• An understanding of multiple integration paths.
• In-depth knowledge of expert areas: how to configure an integration, awareness of features, bugs & known issues, etc.
• Good technical writing skills, as you will sometimes need to communicate a case to technical teams outside of Technical Support.
• Provide 'White Glove' support for difficult cases/sensitive customers/at risk accounts.
• Provide coaching to peers who share the same expert area.
• Be approachable, so that more junior members of the team come to you for guidance and support, especially with your expert area.

Desirable:

• An understanding of Learning Management Systems and how they interact with our service.
• Past experience providing global technical and customer service support.
• Past experience in the education field and/or with educational technology products.
• Past experience in an omni-channel contact center environment involving telephone, chat, and email channels.
• Broad understanding of web technologies and Software as a Service (SaaS).

Personal Attributes:

• Active Listening Level 1:The ability to actively engage hearing and from what is heard, show you absorb and understand important verbal and non-verbal information.
• Collaboration Level 1:The ability to develop, maintain, and strengthen partnerships with others inside or outside the organization who can provide information, assistance, and support.
• Customer Orientation Level 1:The ability and willingness to put the customer at the center and the heart of what you do, to find out what the customer wants and needs and to act accordingly.
• Problem Analysis Level 1:The ability to detect problems, recognize important information, and link various data; to trace potential causes and look for relevant details.
• Written Communication Level 1:The ability to express ideas and views clearly to others in writing.
• Integrity Level 1:Adherence to the standards, the values, and rules of conduct associated with our positions and the culture in which we operate. Being incorruptible and acting within ethical boundaries.
• Verbal Communication Level 1:The ability to communicate in clear language and to adjust one's use of language to the audience's level.
• Quality Focus Level 1:Setting high quality standards and striving for continuous improvement and quality assurance.
• Empathy Level 1:Being attuned to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others and being aware of the influence of one's own behavior on them.
• Attention to Detail (narrow scope) Level 1:The ability to process detailed information effectively and consistently, checking for errors and ensuring perfection.

Additional Information

Total Rewards @ Turnitin

We offer a comprehensive package that prioritizes your overall well-being. Beyond the intrinsic rewards of unleashing your potential to positively impact global education, and thriving in an organization that is free of politics and full of humble, inclusive, and collaborative teammates, our extrinsic rewards include generous time off and health and wellness programs that offer choice and flexibility and provide a safety net for the challenges that life presents from time to time.

Our Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes.

• Customer Centric - We realize our mission to ensure integrity and improve learning outcomes by putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.
• Passion for Learning - We seek out teammates that are constantly learning and growing and build a workplace which enables them to do so.
• Integrity - We believe integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin. It shapes our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.
• Action & Ownership - We have a bias toward action and empower teammates to make decisions.
• One Team - We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each other's successes.
• Global Mindset - We respect local cultures and embrace diversity. We think globally and act locally to maximize our impact on education.

Benefits

• Remote First Culture
• Health Care Coverage*
• Education Reimbursement*
• Competitive Paid Time Off
• 4 Self-Care Days per year
• National Holidays*
• 2 Founder Days + Juneteenth Observed
• Paid Volunteer Time*
• Charitable contribution match*
• Monthly Wellness or Home Office Reimbursement/*
• Access to Modern Health (mental health platform)
• Parental Leave*
• Retirement Plan with match/contribution*

* varies by country