Who are we?
Smarsh empowers its customers to manage risk and unleash intelligence in their digital communications. Our growing community of over 6500 organizations in regulated industries counts on Smarsh every day to help them spot compliance, legal or reputational risks in 80+ communication channels before those risks become regulatory fines or headlines.  Relentless innovation has fueled our journey to consistent leadership recognition from analysts like Gartner and Forrester, and our sustained, aggressive growth has landed Smarsh in the annual Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing American companies since 2008.Roles & ResponsibilitiesProvide Business-Critical Support to specific accounts for premium offerings.Interact with all levels of leadership across Smarsh and clients as needed.Advocate for product, policy and process improvements that improve the customer experience.Provide frontline support role for Enterprise products or Backline support role for Saas-hosted solutions or Enterprise products. Works on assignments that are complex in nature where independent action and high degree of initiative is required in resolving problems and developing solutions. Independently identifies the root cause of software or system issues and uses system analysis and testing techniques to solve problems with minimal assistance. Routinely develops reproducible test cases. May recommend code-level or configuration changes.Ensure team adherence to SLAs for support coverage for initial response and timely resolution for customer cases via phone, web and community. Assigned to specialized teams or projects to leverage knowledge and equip others. Regularly participate in bridge calls for system outages or critical production issues. Develop expertise for broad set of assigned products to maximize first contact resolution.Apply product and industry expertise to actively diagnose, troubleshoot and resolve most complex/advanced customer issues. Escalate cases as required based on customer business impact.Influence support organization to deliver quality service to customers and partners to drive high levels of customer satisfaction and long-term loyalty.Effectively manage cases to ensure timely customer status updates and ultimate resolution.Lead customer escalations or 3rd party support coordination to resolve issues for critical accounts.Log and track cases using Salesforce, maintaining detailed documentation of all interactions and statuses throughout lifecycle of issue.May be assigned as designated Support Engineer to specific accounts for premium offerings.Regularly engage with SRE and Engineering teams to drive resolution of issues, handling all customer-facing communications to set clear expectations through closure.Capture, reuse and share knowledge using KCS (Knowledge-Centered Service) practices as Publisher. Knowledge Domain Expert (KDE) responsibilities for online content and product or process feedback across company. May include KCS Coach role.Promote adoption and success of customers and partners using self-service offerings, including knowledge base, community, and training resources.Lead the identification and implementation of “shift left” changes to increase resolution rate and accelerate time to resolution. Develop and deploy innovative approaches to resolve issues and scale the use of new support practices.Actively participate in readiness planning and activities related to pre-release or new product introduction preparation for the support team.Train and mentor peers to facilitate sharing of expert-level knowledge.Desired skills & experiencePassion for helping customers succeed.Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.Expert level diagnosis and problem-solving abilities.Time management and critical thinking skills.Self-directed and self-motivated with a demonstrable work ethic and ability to perform under pressure.Proficient in using CRM business systems, Microsoft business applications, JIRA/Confluence and related platforms.College degree in technology-related field is preferred, but equivalent industry/career experience is also considered.7+ years in a support delivery role or 8+ years industry/career equivalent experience.  Requires advanced level IT, networking, database or SaaS/Cloud application support experience. Advanced level expertise as Subject Matter Expert for assigned focused technologies or products as point of escalation for frontline/backline teams.On-premises support experience preferred.Project and program management experience preferred.Industry certifications in Linux, RDBMS, AWS are preferred. May require US Citizenship for access to and handling of client data.About our culture
Smarsh hires lifelong learners with a passion for innovating with purpose, humility and humor. Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. We work closely with the most popular communications platforms and the world’s leading cloud infrastructure platforms. We use the latest in AI/ML technology to help our customers break new ground at scale. We are a global organization that values diversity, and we believe that providing opportunities for everyone to be their authentic self is key to our success. Smarsh leadership, culture, and commitment to developing our people have all garnered Comparably.com Best Places to Work Awards. Come join us and find out what the best work of your career looks like.