Senior Technical Support Specialist

Braze Braze · Enterprise · Tokyo, Japan · Customer Experience

Senior Technical Support Specialist for Braze, a customer engagement platform. Responsibilities include owning, prioritizing, and troubleshooting complex customer support issues, acting as an internal escalation point, guiding junior team members, and developing in-depth platform knowledge. Requires strong communication, problem-solving skills, and experience supporting technical products, ideally in SaaS or Mobile. Programming language experience is a plus.

What you'd actually do

  1. own, prioritize, troubleshoot, and build a response plan for complex inbound customer support issues relating to our platform.
  2. work in coordination with your Global Technical Support Leadership and teammates to ensure our customers are able to quickly and successfully overcome any technical issues they may face when using our platform.
  3. regularly contribute to our knowledge database, helping to “pay it forward” allowing teammates and customers to learn quickly from your insight.
  4. act as an internal escalation point for critical support tickets that are handled by our more junior members and act as a hand-off for those critical tickets for team members who are not on shift.
  5. provide assistance and guidance to more Junior members of the Support Team as well as members of the organization outside of Technical Support.

Skills

Required

  • exemplary written and verbal communication skills
  • unparalleled follow-up skills
  • customer-centric attitude
  • experience handling time-sensitive, pressure-intensive customer issues
  • Working knowledge of Case Management tools like Salesforce, Zendesk or similar ticketing system
  • Talent for synthesizing complex ideas and communicating them in a way others can easily understand
  • Experience with Ruby, Java, C++, JavaScript, or other programming languages
  • Curiosity towards learning new things and attitude to explore on one's own

Nice to have

  • supporting a technical product, ideally in SaaS or Mobile