Zendesk Technical Support Engineer (AI and SaaS-German speaking)

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Job Description We are looking for a support guru (German speaking) who thrives on providing technical guidance through many different channels of communication including messaging (live and asynchronous conversations), email, phone, video conference, and forums. You are able to understand customer needs, anticipate their challenges, advocate internally for solutions, and communicate effectively to provide the best possible customer experience. You bring technical and support expertise to this team, whose focus is servicing customers and solving problems, likes a challenge, and wants to set the standard for customer support. We offer flexible working models allowing you to work hybrid of full remote in this particular role. As a Technical Support Engineer:

• You are an integral member of a highly technical team dedicated to delivering technical support and guidance.
• You take ownership of customer issues through resolution, are empathetic, responsive, resourceful, and see the support experience through our customers’ eyes.
• You are an outstanding communicator, both written and verbal — you get your message across simply and build trusted relationships at all levels.
• You are a master of prioritization. You can juggle customer escalations, product changes, and service issues while managing related communication, technical account management, and risk mitigation.
• Ability to empower end-users to support themselves using our knowledge base.
• A desire to learn, master and teach across technical fields.

You must have:

• Previous Technical Support experience in a Tech OR SaaS industry
• Fluent in English and German (written and spoken)
• Excellent customer service skills – the ability to be empathetic, accurate, compassionate, responsive, resourceful and conscientious
• Excellent organisational, written and oral communication skills - You must be able to convey technical jargon in a wide-array of syntax from beginner level users to developers in our tickets as well as knowledge base articles
• A strong sense of urgency
• Ability to empower end-users to support themselves using our knowledge base
• Ability to evaluate, troubleshoot, and follow-up on customer issues as well as replicate and document for further escalation
• A desire to learn, master and teach
• Innovative thinking - “how can we” attitude
• Strong tools knowledge around GSuite, Slack, Confluence

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