Technical Support Specialist L2

Smartsheet Smartsheet · Seattle · India · Technical Support

This role is for a Technical Support Specialist L2 at Smartsheet, focusing on resolving complex technical issues for SaaS customers. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, documenting issues, collaborating with colleagues, and providing guidance on platform capabilities. Requires experience in customer support, problem-solving, and familiarity with web-based/SaaS applications and support tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. Handle customer technical issues with a high sense of urgency and ownership while keeping stakeholders appropriately apprised of the investigation
  2. Troubleshoot issues using internal & external documentation, analyze log files, use various tools and other resources to identify root causes and resolve customer issues
  3. Contribute to your team’s goals by thoroughly researching, testing, and documenting your investigations as you collaborate with colleagues to help them progress their cases as well as your own
  4. Share your expertise, provide guidance on troubleshooting techniques, and help upskill your colleagues
  5. Work with customers through a variety of channels including email, phone, and chat

Skills

Required

  • Technical or customer support experience, or equivalent
  • Ability to demonstrate empathetic and confident issue ownership, assuring customers that if you can't solve their problem, you will ensure they are directed to the right resource
  • Confidence and strong interest in problem solving
  • Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
  • Ability to work independently or collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
  • A firm grasp of and comfort using cloud applications
  • Desire and aptitude to quickly ramp up on new technologies, languages, and frameworks
  • Willingness to engage on complex matters
  • Comfortable working in ambiguous situations with little to no direction
  • Flexibility in your working hours as this position will require work outside of standard business hours.
  • Hands on experience and understanding of web-based/SaaS applications
  • Familiarity with browsers, operating systems, and networking concepts
  • Ability to read and understand intermediate to complex error messages and logs
  • Experience in leveraging support tools and ability to learn new tools and technologies quickly
  • Basic proficiency with spreadsheets and documentation tools
  • Experience using or exposure to ticketing systems (Zendesk, Freshdesk, Salesforce, Jira, or similar)
  • 3-4 years of experience in customer support, service desk, or technical support
  • Strong written and spoken English communication skills
  • Ability to explain simple technical concepts clearly
  • Customer-first attitude with empathy and patience
  • Good problem-solving and analytical thinking
  • Ability to multitask and manage multiple tickets
  • Willingness to work in a fast-paced, metric-driven environment

Nice to have

  • Working knowledge of assigned feature strongly preferred