Premier Support Engineer

Zendesk Zendesk · Enterprise · Austin, TX +5 · Remote

This role is for a Premier Support Engineer at Zendesk, focusing on providing technical support and guidance to enterprise customers. The role involves troubleshooting complex SaaS solutions, understanding Zendesk architecture, and advising on product usage, APIs, and SDKs. It requires strong communication, prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. You are an integral member of a highly technical team dedicated to delivering technical support and guidance to Zendesk Premier customers.
  2. You take ownership of customer issues through resolution, are empathetic, responsive, resourceful, and see the support experience through our customers’ eyes.
  3. You provide guidance and best practice advice while answering product and developer oriented questions relating to our APIs, Frameworks, and SDKs.
  4. You are an outstanding communicator, both written and verbal — you get your message across simply and build trusted relationships at all levels.
  5. 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.

Skills

Required

  • Experienced (2+ years) Zendesk Administrator or has deep product knowledge defined as technical troubleshooting expertise, clear understanding of Zendesk architecture, and the ability to view technical issues at the “macro” level
  • Two to four years experience supporting customers on enterprise software
  • 1 yr Enterprise Architecture / 1 yr Technical Architecture experience
  • Experience designing, implementing, supporting, and troubleshooting complex multi-vendor / multi-platform SaaS solutions
  • 1 yr technical troubleshooting experience with HTML, JSON, JavaScript, and RESTful APIs
  • Proven ability to develop positive relationships and effectively coordinate with cross-functional teams; develop and communicate creative, diplomatic solutions to problems; manage competing priorities on a daily basis
  • Self-motivated, and possess a strong sense of responsibility and initiative
  • Must be willing to occasionally work outside of business hours or on a weekend rotation as needed; limited travel may be requested

Nice to have

  • Formal presentation skills (QBRs, Scorecard read-outs/development. etc.)
  • Innovative thinking - “how can we” attitude
  • Strong tools knowledge around GSuite, Slack, Confluence
  • Secondary language such as Spanish, French, German or Portuguese welcome
  • Java, Ruby, Python, or another modern language

What the JD emphasized

  • technical troubleshooting expertise
  • deep product knowledge
  • complex multi-vendor / multi-platform SaaS solutions