Customer Experience Specialist

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Support our growing customer base by resolving inquiries across multiple channels, ensuring customer satisfaction and success with our SaaS platform while leveraging modern support tools.

Our mission and where you fit in

At Employment Hero, we're an ambitious bunch of people on a mission to make employment easier and more valuable for everyone.

Since our inception in 2014, we've had some pretty impressive growth (100% YoY), now serving 300,000 businesses globally, with 2 million+ users on the platform, reaching unicorn status in 2022 - and we have no plans to slow down.

There's never been a more exciting time to join one of the fastest-growing SaaS unicorns, so let's see if we could be a match!

What might your days look like

As a Customer Experience Specialist, you’ll be working within our Customer Experience team and will be responsible for gathering information from customers and ensuring their continued support and success after implementing our Employment Hero product. In this role, you will be supporting our customers to ensure accuracy and will be responsible for resolving customer tickets efficiently and effectively. This includes addressing customer issues with professionalism and care, and escalating to the appropriate teams where necessary. The expected hours of the role are Monday to Friday from 6:30/7am - 3:30/4pm or 8:30am - 5:30pm your local time.

As a Customer Experience Specialist you'll be responsible for;

  • Responding to and resolving customer tickets, calls and queries related to the Employment Hero Platform in a timely manner.
  • Assist and collaborate with the wider squad and support team to provide best practice system use and education to all our customers.
  • Proactively analyse and understand product functionality across the platform and logic in detail; and testing in platforms to identify user error/system logic and related root causes by maintaining comprehensive awareness of product changes and enhancements.
  • Conduct/triage customer support issues and assign to the appropriate team or resolve where possible.
  • Escalating issues related to bugs or product logic/functionality concerns as necessary, in collaboration with Seniors/Team Leads and the Product Team.
  • Working with customers across multi channels (email, chat, phone) to understand their organisational workflow and how the platform can support them to maximise their people processes.
  • Leveraging Zendesk, Salesforce and other internal tools for maintaining records, ticket investigations and referencing customer interactions, transactions, comments, and complaints in accordance with service level agreements (SLAs)
  • Proactively contribute feature requests and Help Centre suggestions, where warranted and using customer insights.

What will you bring:

  • Exposure to working in fluid, high change and high velocity environments.
  • 1-2 years experience with proven results in a high volume customer service/support environment.
  • Prior exposure to customer experience within a SaaS (Software as a Service) environment.
  • Problem solving skills with a sound and thorough approach to troubleshooting.
  • Ability to manage competing priorities, working autonomously; requesting assistance where needed.
  • Strong and polished verbal and written communication skills.
  • Relevant HR/Payroll Experience and/or Related Qualification (nice to have).

Experience is important, but for us the biggest measure of success is people who can live and breathe our values. Show us what you can bring to the table, and we'll empower you to let your talents shine.

The EH Way

The EH Way is how we describe our culture at Employment Hero and how we all operate. It is our DNA. You can read all about it on our careers page: https://employmenthero.com/careers/

In short, you’ll love working with us if:

    • Revolutionising employment gets your heart racing.
    • You thrive on the flexibility (and responsibility) of a remote-first business.
    • Our values align, and shape how you show up every day.
    • You love the dynamic pace of a startup, are driven by innovation, and enjoy working with other smart people.
    • Plus, you’ll get to enjoy a number of great perks, including:
    • A generous budget for your home office.
    • Cutting-edge tools and technology.
    • Reward and recognition programs - because great work should be recognised and rewarded.
    • Cashback offers and discounts on popular brands through our Swag app.
    • Employee Share Option Program: be an owner of Employment Hero.
    • Annual Global Gathering - so far we’ve been to Thailand, Vietnam, Bali, Dubai and we're excited to meet in the Gold Coast, Australia 2026!

Are we a match? 

Think we're the right match for you? Fantastic! Click 'Apply' and our talent team will reach out with the next steps.

At Employment Hero, we are committed to safeguarding the privacy of your application data. To understand how we do so, you can read our Applicant Privacy Policy here: https://employmenthero.com/legals/applicant-policy/

Employment Hero celebrates diverse perspectives and experiences, we invite people of all backgrounds and identities to apply for this position.

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Home Office Stipend: A generous budget for your home office.
  • Other Benefit: Annual Global Gathering - so far we’ve been to Thailand, Vietnam, Bali, Dubai and we're excited to meet in the Gold Coast, Australia 2026!

Employment Hero is one Australia’s fastest-growing SaaS companies. Our platform helps small and medium-sized businesses manage all of their HR, payroll, recruitment and employee benefit needs via one beautiful, cloud-based platform. Over the past 6 years, we’ve had enormous growth. After taking Australia by storm, we set out to take on the rest of the world, launching internationally in New Zealand, The United Kingdom, Malaysia and Singapore -- with many more to come. We’re now home to more than 140 members of staff in Australia, and 110 further employees throughout our international hubs.At Employment Hero, we’re an ambitious group of people on a mission to make employment easier and more rewarding for everyone. We like to stay ahead of the curve and provide our team with tools to innovate. We pride ourselves on our inclusive, innovative culture that rewards and recognises our team for great work. If you’re looking for a meaningful career where you'll be challenged every day and supported on your journey, we could be just the place you’ve been looking for! We’re a passionate bunch who are tirelessly working to help SMEs. We’re mission-driven and never lose sight of our goal.Oh, and we don’t want to toot our own horn (actually yes, we do), but others think we’re pretty cool too – we’ve received many awards for smashing some seriously ambitious goals including:* LinkedIn Top 10 Startups 2020* Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2019, ranked #20 in Australia* GetApp Category Leader Q1 2019* Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2018, ranked #12 in Australia* HRD Gold Medalist - Human Capital Management Systems 2018* HRD Gold Medalist - Rewards and Recognition Service Provider 2018* HRD Rewards and Recognition Employer of Choice 2018* LinkedIn Top 25 Startups 2018* EY Entrepreneur of the Year National Finalist 2018* Dynamic Business Top 10 Entrepreneurs, our CEO Ben Thompson ranked #2* BRW Most Innovative Companies 2015* Anthill Smart 100 List 2015* Startup Daily Top 50 Emerging Leaders 2015* HRD Employer of Choice Award 2015* Aon Hewitt Best Employers 2013

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