United States onlyMuck Rack is the leading SaaS platform for public relations and communications professionals. Our mission is to enable organizations to build trust, tell their stories, and demonstrate the unique value of earned media. Muck Rack’s AI-powered, comprehensive, and integrated platform streamlines the PR workflow to help businesses generate positive media coverage, monitor mentions to manage brand reputation, and analyze PR’s impact on business outcomes. By combining media database, monitoring, and reporting into one dynamic platform, we empower teams to collaborate seamlessly, pitch effectively, and analyze results faster and more efficiently.
Founder-controlled, fully distributed, and growing sustainably, Muck Rack has received several awards for its unparalleled culture and product from organizations like Inc., Quartz, G2, and BuiltIn. We value resilience, transparency, ownership, and customer devotion, and infuse these values into everything we do.
Our customer base continues to grow and we’re looking for an analytical and curious Customer Support Specialist to join our team and make a big impact.
As a Customer Support Specialist, you will be focused on ensuring that customers receive best-in-class service and have access to the help they need to be successful using Muck Rack. You’ll be a good fit for this role if you enjoy creating exceptional customer experiences, and helping customers achieve their goals comes naturally to you.
You will work closely with the editorial, customer success, and product teams.
What you’ll do:
- Serve as a first responder for inbound communication through our site
- Answer customer questions and provide how-to help on Muck Rack’s capabilities, with a focus on reducing customer effort and furthering product knowledge
- Escalate and diagnose software issues; work with our product and engineering teams to solve complex product issues
- Follow site issues to resolution and customer satisfaction
- Proactively reach out to customers who show signs of user error
- Identify processes that need to be improved and evolved
- Maintain expert product knowledge of Muck Rack and stay well informed of new and existing features
How success will be measured in this role:
- Time to close
- Average time to respond within 10 minutes or less
- Number of conversations replied to
- CSAT
- Quality Assurance (QA)
If the details below describe you, you could be a great fit for this role:
- 1-2+ years of experience in technical support; B2B and SaaS experience is preferred
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a focus on listening and asking the right questions; comfort communicating with customers via chat, email
- Can autonomously troubleshoot and perform in-depth investigations to fix a problem
- Ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities and customer needs
- Familiarity with the tools we use, including Google Apps, Salesforce, Slack, Intercom, GitHub, and you learn how to use new tools quickly
- Familiarity with technical writing; writing troubleshooting and navigation steps for websites
- Attention to detail and curiosity to identify the core of issues
- Continuous learner with a desire to be the first to learn new features
- Experience working in public relations or familiarity with the industry is preferred
- Familiarity with boolean searching
- Must be willing to work one of the following shifts: 8:00am-5:00pm OR 12:00p-9:00pm EST
Interview Overview
Below you'll find an outline of the interview plan for this role. Please note that this is what we expect the process to look like; we may ask you for supplemental information or require an additional step before making a final decision.
- 30 min interview with a member of our Talent Team
- A 1 hour zoom interview with the hiring manager
- Skills assessment (2 hours max)
- Peer interviews with several team members
- Final call(s) with executive team member(s)
Salary
In the US, the base salary for this role is $27/hour. We take a geo-neutral approach to compensation within the US, meaning that we pay based on job function and level, not location. For all other countries, we have competitive pay bands based on market standards.
Individual compensation decisions are based on a number of factors, including experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors. We recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted. If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated with you as a candidate.Why Muck Rack?
Remote Work, Forever
- Fully distributed team with a permanent remote setup
- Home office stipend, phone and internet reimbursement, coworking membership
- Virtual and in-person team bonding (lunches, events, competitions)
Transparent & Fair Compensation
- Competitive geo-neutral pay in the U.S.
- Annual reviews to ensure equity and market alignment
- Standardized bonus or commission structure
- 401(k) with employer contributions
- Equity opportunities
Health & Wellness
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance for employees and dependents
- 100% premium coverage for individuals on high-deductible plans
- 24/7 Virtual Care and Employee Assistance Program
- Employer-funded HSA contributions and other pre-tax benefits
- Quarterly wellness stipend and free Headspace subscription
Time Off & Family Benefits
- 4+ weeks of PTO, plus paid sick and mental health days
- 13 paid holidays with the option to swap for personal days
- Up to 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
Learning and Development
- Transparent pathways for internal mobility and promotion
- Bi-annual performance reviews, team workshops, and leadership training
- Unlimited access to Coursera and O’Reilly
- 2 additional PTO days annually for learning and development
Inclusive, Customer-First Culture
- Commitment to equity and valuing diverse perspectives
- Agile, founder-led company focused on collaboration and innovation
- Trusted by 3,000+ companies worldwide
Note: Benefits and compensation reflect offerings for U.S.-based employees. Support is provided for employees in other locations, in compliance with local laws and regulations.
While we are a fully distributed team, we do have limitations on where we can hire and maintain a list of acceptable working locations based on job function. If we are unable to hire in your current location for the role for which you applied, you will be notified via email. While we enjoy many benefits as a permanently distributed and remote company, we cannot always support relocation or extended travel and have guidelines in place to ensure compliant work away from your designated permanent residence.
Muck Rack does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or any other third parties. Any unsolicited resume sent to Muck Rack will be considered Muck Rack property, and Muck Rack will not pay a fee should it hire the subject of any unsolicited resume.Muck Rack considers applicants for all positions on the basis of merit, qualifications, and business needs, and without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, alienage or citizenship status, ancestry, marital status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, veteran status, familial status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.Note to applicants/job seekers: We have recently been made aware of scams impersonating Muck Rack’s HR team. Please be cautious of these attempts to elicit banking or other financial or sensitive information. Muck Rack will never request financial information during the interview process, and follow ups for interviews or next steps will always come from an ‘@muckrack.com’ email address. If you are contacted by anyone from a different domain who claims to be from Muck Rack, please forward the communication to [email protected].
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