Self-Service Specialist (Adoption & Retention Focus)
Zendesk's Digital Customer Experience team is seeking a Self-Service Specialist to develop and maintain assets, with a focus on adoption, optimization, risk mitigation, and value realization in the Zendesk Suite.
Zendesks Digital CX team is on a mission to enable our customers to realize value through relevant, high-quality digital resources, built from the deep well of internal knowledge Zendesk employees have. Self-Service Specialists support this effort by creating and curating asset collections, as well as managing functions in support of our program, such as KCS®, knowledge management, and proactive/predictive/automated deployment.
This unique role offers the opportunity to be a part of the team that sets the standard for best in class self-service customer support.
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What you'll do
- Research
- Develop a deep understanding of Zendesk customer profiles and common paths to good/better/best product adoption, risk mitigation, and value realization
- Use many different data sources and collaboration with other Zendesk teams to identify the specific assets & guidance our customers need to be successful without 1:1 human support
- Develop
- Publish, curate, and maintain high-quality assets with particular attention to areas of high customer effort or confusion, including written content, video, guided tutorials, scripted webinars, slide decks, and other media
- Follow the Zendesk style guide to ensure consistency across all assets
- Align asset libraries with Zendesks best practices for information architecture, ensuring resources are available and findable on-demand
- Maintain
- Manage publishing and maintenance of KCS® content from our Customer Success teams
- Continuously improve content by responding to internal and external feedback
- Optimize
- Leverage analytic tools to evaluate the impact of digital assets, including tracking usage, efficacy, customer reaction/sentiment, and opportunities for improvement
- Define and partner with delivery teams, including those like CX Automation, Chatbot, Lifecycle Marketing, Product Growth, and Product Marketing to proactively deliver Adoption & Retention assets to customers at key touchpoints
What you bring to the role
You are a great match for the team if:
- You enjoy helping software users easily understand complex information through various forms of media
- You enjoy wearing many hats and having diverse responsibilities
- You are a passionate advocate for our customers and enjoy the unique challenge of digital innovation
- You can understand what our customers need, uncovering opportunities from real customer interactions and working within Zendesk to locate and reconstruct technical tribal knowledge
- You are able to translate all this knowledge into clear and easy-to-understand guidance
To be successful, you will need to work closely with other members of the Digital CX team as well as with product, adoption, and retention experts throughout Zendesk. This means you will need to develop and nurture critical partnerships across other teams to ensure that we offer a complete self service solution for areas that challenge our customers. Collaboration is the key to success in this role!
The ideal candidate will meet the following qualifications:
- 2+ years experience in a Customer Success or Support role, ideally in a SaaS environment
- Fluency in written and spoken English
- Excellent written communication skills and proven ability to make complex topics easy and engaging
- Experience producing digital assets like knowledge articles, instructional videos, learning paths and tutorials
- Highly organized, detail oriented, and curious
- Proven ability to thrive in a team-oriented and collaborative work environment
- Self-directed, highly motivated, and proactive
- Thrive in a global environment where continuous learning and improvement is standard
- Enjoy receiving feedback from customers and putting their requests into action
- Ability to handle multiple projects and quickly adapt to shifting priorities, demands, and timelines
- Passionate about innovating on the digital Customer Experience
- A high level of familiarity with Zendesk products
Additionally, preference will be given to candidates who possess experience with any of the following:
- 1 or more years experience as a technical writer, content writer, KCS® publisher, community manager, Scaled Success Manager or similar role
- KCS Practices v6® certification
- Experience with web development languages, including basic HTML and CSS
- Experience writing content that is easily localized for a global customer base
- SEO best practices and implementation
- Experience with adult learning and education
- Business proficiency in Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, or Korean
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