Customer Support (Pacific Time) at Circle

About Us: Circle

Circle is building the world’s leading all-in-one platform for online communities. We enable creators, coaches, educators, and businesses to bring together their audience with engaging discussions, live streams, events, chat, courses, and payments – all in one place, under their own brand. We are proud to be a fully remote company of around 200 (and growing!) team members from over 30 countries worldwide. We seek exceptional individuals globally, empower them to do their best work, and, in turn, create a meaningful impact in their own lives. We prioritize outcomes over hours, manage for high expectations, collaborate asynchronously across time zones, and emphasize thorough documentation. Twice a year, we gather the entire company in beautiful locations worldwide for our company offsites, having hosted retreats in Turkey, Portugal, Mexico, Thailand, Colombia, Italy, Ireland, and more, with further destinations planned. Check out our Careers page for more about working at Circle.

About the Role

We're looking to expand our customer support team! This team serves as the first line of support for our customers at Circle. We respond to open support inquiries, resolve complex problems, and collaborate directly with our customers and internal teams to find optimal solutions to the trickiest challenges. We have a robust support team of over 30 teammates spread across the globe, all dedicated to ensuring customer satisfaction as Circle continues to grow. This is a fully remote, full-time position. Candidates must be available to work 10:00 AM to 6:30 PM Pacific Time, Tuesday through Saturday (40 hours per week). This is a strict requirement of the role. We welcome candidates with a range of experience levels; your title will be Customer Support Specialist or Senior Customer Support Specialist, depending on experience and interview performance.

What You'll Be Doing

• Prioritize customer issues across our email channels.
• Undergo an onboarding phase, and eventually provide hands-on support for Circle Plus communities.
• Become an expert on the Circle product and our internal staff admin tool.
• Advise creators on practical solutions as they launch and build their communities.
• Troubleshoot a wide range of issues across desktop and mobile browsers, our desktop app, Android, iOS mobile apps, and our custom branded app.
• Escalate feedback to inform and improve our product.
• Collaborate with engineers and designers to troubleshoot complex technical issues across live stream, payments, notifications, events, member management, and more.
• Identify trends from customer inquiries to suggest proactive solutions.
• Collaborate with a global team using Notion, Slack, and Zendesk.

What You'll Need to Be Successful

• Strong alignment with our values. Find our values on our career page if you haven't read up on them yet.
• You are proficient in English (spoken, written, and reading) at a CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5.
• 3+ years of experience in a technical support role, ideally in SaaS.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• You are excited to be part of a startup with significant traction, where you will have a strong voice to influence product development and our roadmap.
• You're skilled at understanding and implementing technical workflows at a fast pace.
• You love understanding customer needs and derive satisfaction from being extremely helpful.
• You are a team player and thrive in a collaborative work environment.
• You enjoy learning new topics and are eager to embrace new product developments.

Bonus Points

• Experience working with Zendesk. This is the ticketing system we use.
• You've worked in a 100% remote role before, with an international team.
• Experience working with community, payment, live stream, or content-related products.
• Experience with automation and/or Zapier to create workflows.
• Experience troubleshooting application logins and/or Single Sign-On flows.
• Familiarity with troubleshooting API issues.

Compensation

$45,000 - $60,000 USD per year. The cash compensation range shown is a starting point. In addition to equity, benefits, and perks, your cash compensation is subject to an annual review and increase on a once-per-year basis.

The Fun Stuff

• Fully remote: work from anywhere in the world!
• Autonomy and trust to do your job: we care about outcomes over everything else.
• Paid time away: all employees are given 35 days of PTO annually. We also offer a paid sabbatical after 5 years.
• Generous U.S. benchmarked compensation and startup equity no matter where you are in the world.
• Awesome medical coverage with 100% coverage for you and your family, or medical reimbursement options where applicable!
• Parental leave for parents expanding their family, or just starting one.
• Home office stipend to help you get up and running.
• Learning & development stipend to help you level up your professional skills.
• Annual bonus potential for roles that don't already receive variable income or commission.
• Company retreats: Twice a year, the Circle team gathers for a fully paid company retreat in incredible places around the world! We’ve had past retreats in Colombia, Portugal, and Mexico, with more planned on the horizon.

* Your role, location, and unique circumstance may affect this.

Candidate Safety & Interview Process Notice

At Circle, the safety and trust of our candidates is extremely important to us. Unfortunately, recruiting fraud is increasingly common in the job market, and bad actors sometimes impersonate companies or employees.

How Our Process Works

• All applications are submitted through our official applicant tracking system (Greenhouse).
• If selected to move forward, you may be invited to record a short introductory video or directly into a live interview.
• All live interviews are conducted face-to-face over video (Zoom or Google Meet) with a member of the Circle team.
• We do not conduct text-only interviews.
• We do not conduct interviews via chat apps or messaging platforms.
• We do not use AI bots to interview candidates.

Official Communication Channels

• All official communication from Circle will come from [email protected], or an email address ending in @circle.co or @circle.so.
• We will never contact you from unofficial domains (such as “.team”, “.careers”, or similar variations).
• We will never request sensitive personal information early in the process, or ask for payment of any kind.

If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Circle, please do not respond.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

As a fully-remote international company, diversity is baked into our DNA. Here’s how our CEO, Sid Yadav, frames our hiring mission: “let’s find talent in underserved and under-represented corners of the world, set them up to do the best work of their lives, and in turn, change their life.” To achieve this hiring mission, we offer competitive U.S. benchmarked compensation no matter where someone’s located in the world, and we proactively seek candidates who expand representation of backgrounds, cultures, and lived experiences in our teams.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Circle is an equal opportunity employer and as such, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. If you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

How We Use Candidate Data

At Circle, we are committed to protecting your personal information. As a job applicant, the personal data you provide to us is collected and processed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). This notice outlines the types of personal information we collect, the purpose for collecting it, and your rights.

Information We Collect

We collect the following categories of personal information from job applicants:

• Contact information (such as name, email address, phone number).
• Employment history and qualifications.
• Education history.
• References and any other information you choose to share with us during the application process.

Purpose of Collection

We collect this information for the following purposes:

• To assess your qualifications and suitability for the position.
• To communicate with you during the recruitment process.
• To comply with legal and regulatory obligations.

Your Rights Under GDPR and CCPA

You have the following rights regarding your personal information:

• The right to request access to the personal information we hold about you.
• The right to request the deletion of your personal information, subject to certain legal exceptions.
• The right to opt out of the sale of your personal information (Note: We do not sell personal information).

For more information about how we handle your personal data or to exercise your rights, please refer to our full Privacy Policy. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this privacy notice.