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Customer Support Associate

We're looking for Customer Support Associates to join our Customer Support team at Wise! You'll support our English speaking customers from our new Tampa, Florida office!

Wise has already pioneered new ways for people to transfer money across borders and currencies. Our customers can manage their money with the world's first platform to offer true multi-currency banking and we're on a mission: to make money without borders the new normal. We've got 13 million customers across the globe and we're growing. Fast.

You'll receive a competitive package including a starting salary of $20.50 per hour + Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) in a profitable company + best in class benefits! (more info below )

The projected start date for this role is September 18th. This is a hybrid position located in Tampa, Florida and NOT fully remote.

Your mission:

Your mission is to help customers have an excellent experience using Wise. In Customer Support, we focus the majority of our time providing world-class customer support for our English speaking customers via phones and emails. At Wise, our customer support teams understand that making a customer happy is crucially important to a business' success and you make that your goal for every contact. You'll support that mission by:

• Problem solving: Investigating issues with payments, account set up and login, and providing general support to our customers
• Learning: We need to be up to date with our own products to be able to teach our customers about new updates and features
• Delivering feedback: Sometimes we get feedback from our customers and it's our job to pass that feedback along to the proper internal teams
• Communicating: We need to communicate not only with our customers, but also with our own internal teams to solve problems by being creative, friendly, and solution oriented
• Teaching: We need to educate our customers that may be new to Wise on how to get the most out of our products

Some of your time is spent on administrative tasks to improve our processes and your development. These include:

• Participating in team meetings, participating in ongoing training sessions, 1 on 1 meetings with your lead, and assessing quality reviews
• Reviewing other metrics such as: productivity, handling time, QA, and adherence

A bit about you:

• Time management: Efficiently managing your time in an ever changing environment ensures you handle customer contacts promptly and effectively. This involves prioritizing tasks, adhering to your schedule, and providing timely resolutions to exceed performance metrics and deliver a great customer experience
• Growth oriented: You understand that an open feedback culture is there to help you grow. You challenge ideas, not people. You're able to own up to your mistakes and you follow through when you say you will. You proactively seek out resources, information, and opportunities for development
• Adaptability: Wise serves customers and supports products all over the globe, so things change quickly and often, and adaptability is vital. You take ownership over your work and you see every challenge as a learning opportunity, using all the tools and resources at your disposal to investigate issues and find solutions
• Experience: You're someone who has experience supporting customers via phone and email channels in a high volume environment, preferably in banking or finance
• Communication: Phone and email contacts are the main responsibility for this role, so communication skills are key. This includes exceptional verbal & written English skills, active listening, speaking in a friendly and professional tone, and conveying information in an easy to understand manner
• Technical skills: You're computer literate and technically savvy, with strong typing skills of at least 35 words-per-minute, and fluent in navigating computer systems and tools, ideally with an understanding of CRMs such as Twilio or ZenDesk, and other tools such as Slack, Zoom, Google Suite, etc
• Empathy and conflict resolution: It's important to empathize with customer's situations and remain patient throughout the conversation. Occasionally, you may encounter irate or dissatisfied customers. Strong conflict resolution skills help defuse tension, address concerns, and find mutually beneficial resolutions
• Additionally: You've got at least a high school diploma or GED equivalent, and must already be legally authorized to work in the US, we cannot provide Visa sponsorship for this role
• Flexibility: Open to working days, evenings, weekends, and occasional holidays. Most shifts fall between 8:00am-8:00pm ET, and each agent works 2 weekend days per month. While we consider your scheduling preferences, shifts may change based on customer needs, so we cannot guarantee your preferred shift (Note: Your first 6 weeks will be a 8:00am-4:00pm ET schedule while you complete your paid CS training)

Key benefits:

• RSU's in a rapidly growing company
• 401k with up to a 4% employer match
• Company-paid: Life Insurance, Short & Long-Term Disability, and an EAP program
• ✈️ Wisers can work remotely for 90 days a year. By 'remote' we don't just mean from home, but from wherever in the world you choose to
• 18-weeks of paid parental leave, after one year with us
• ️ Here's more info on our benefits in Tampa
• $20.50 per hour starting salary
• Hybrid working model – a mix of working from home and from the office
• ️ 25 days PTO, 15 sick days, 11 paid holidays, 5 compassionate leave days, 3 "Me" days and 1 volunteer day, annually
• Medical, dental, & vision insurance – including HSA and FSA options
• An annual self-development budget
• ️ A paid 6-week sabbatical leave after four years

We're people without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We want to work with the best people, no matter their background. So if you're passionate about learning new things and keen to join our mission, you'll fit right in.

And because we believe that diverse teams build better products, we'd especially love to hear from you if you're from an under-represented demographic.

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