Customer Support Specialist

✨ One platform, a whole world of opportunity

Right now, the best jobs are limited to people in a handful of the world’s wealthiest cities, yet brilliant people are everywhere. Driven to overturn the status quo and distribute opportunities equally around the world, Oyster launched its global employment platform to help companies hire, pay, and care for talent anywhere.

When it comes to global employment, we walk the walk. We’re proof that companies don't need an office to create a highly-engaged culture. Since the company’s inception in January 2020, Oyster has:

Our momentum speaks to the power of global employment—and we’re just getting started! If you want to change the world with Oyster and be empowered to work remotely while doing so, we’d love for you to apply!

Location: While this position is posted in a specific location, all of Oyster’s positions are fully remote and you can work from home. Forever. To create the best experience for our new hire this role requires you to be based within UTC + / - 5 hours as you will be supporting the EMEA region.

Oyster is growing fast, and we are looking for a Customer Support Specialist to join our Care business unit, to help us deliver a fantastic support experience to our growing number of customers. You will be part of the Care frontline team of our business and someone who our customers interact with day to day.

The Care team handles all requests that affect customer and team member contracts (e.g. salary or role change), benefits-related requests (e.g. benefits enrollment, statutory benefits), platform and account changes (e.g. update banking details, add super admin), attendance management (e.g. timesheets approvals) as well as sensitive HR matters.

Key Responsibilities

• You will be the face and voice of Oyster to our Customers and their Team Members when they need support or extra guidance to use the Oyster platform and services that relate to our Care business unit;
• Working with support colleagues, HR, finance, and legal experts to resolve queries and then sharing your knowledge with the whole customer-facing team
• Using support ticketing platforms (Zendesk) and knowledge-centered support principles to enhance the service experience, both internally and externally whilst providing a human-centric experience
• Maintaining and helping to develop our self-service tools so that we can help the customer help themselves as much as possible

Core Requirements

• 2-3 years of hands-on customer support at a SaaS business
• Experience in a support or administration role in an HR or People function
• Experience with using a support platform, preferably Zendesk
• An empathic and human-centered approach to supporting customers; you always want to go the extra mile to ensure that the customer is happy and they feel supported
• Passionate about creating and sharing knowledge to build a fantastic support experience for your colleagues and our customers
• First-class attention to detail and reasoning with extreme organization and a proven work ethic
• Comfortable with a high pace work environment and changing customer priorities
• Excellent interpersonal skills, determination and tenacity, along with a sense of humor
• Remote-first advocate and passionate about creating change in the future of work landscape
• Driven by the social impact mission and desire to use skills to influence global change and employment opportunities

You'll also need

• A reliable home internet connection (or be able to get one)
• Fluent English language skills

🦪 How we work together at Oyster

Our values guide the work we do, the decisions we make, and the culture that makes us special. We elevate talent. 🙌 We build trust. 🤝 We thrive together. 🌍

Our mission is to create a more equal world—one global hire at a time. Everything we do ladders up to our mission—and that doesn’t just mean building software. We develop programs, participate in workshops, and create dedicated teams to ensure we successfully support companies and knowledge workers in this new world of work.

We embrace asynchronous communication and collaborative work—and we share how we work in the Oyster Public HQ—to help other global teams learn from our experiences.

💌 How YOU work

Different countries have different statutory benefits, different cultures have different norms, and different people have different needs! In order to best support and encourage our diverse team, we’ve created How YOU Work; a program of policies, practices, and perks to support your whole human experience as an employee at Oyster.

• Work from anywhere: Oyster is a borderless, HQ-less company. As long as your work gets done on time, your team has the support they need, and you're authorized to work where you live, the world is truly your Oyster.
• Paid time off: We’re all about taking breaks—we all need it. Oyster provides employees with 40 days off each year, which includes public/bank holidays and vacation/holiday leave (unless your country mandates more).
• Mental health support: We consider your mental health a top priority. We offer access to Plumm, a mental well-being service, to support your mental health.
• Wellbeing allowance: Each month, Oyster will top up your ThanksBen wallet with a wellbeing allowance. You can get pretty much anything that your heart desires! ThanksBen offers a wide array of options for spending your wellbeing allowance. Check out their benefits catalogue here for inspiration.
• Flexible parental leave: Families are created in lots of different ways. Our parental leave policy applies to all employees who are becoming parents, regardless of how they become a parent. Oysters are eligible for a minimum of three months of paid parental leave and your job will be held for 12 months (or longer if required by local jurisdiction).
• WFH stipend: $3000 stipend to spend on your laptop and any other equipment you need for your home office; we'll get you up and running in no time!

✨ The best jobs should be available to everyone

At Oyster, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences and we’ve intentionally built our product and our company with an inclusive, global mindset. We know from experience that people from underrepresented groups often don’t apply for roles they don’t feel they meet all the criteria for. We’re committed to elevating talent by creating a trust-based environment where we can all thrive together. So if you think you have what it takes, but don’t necessarily check every single box, please consider applying. We’d love to hear how you might contribute to our mission and our team.

Oyster is committed to ensuring equal opportunity of employment for qualified persons with disabilities and actively fosters an inclusive work environment. If you require reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process, please email [email protected] with the subject line: Interview Accommodations.

Our available positions are published on our careers page and should you be invited to interview with us, our recruitment team will only ever contact you directly from an @oysterhr.com email address. We will never ask you to send us money as part of a job offer. If you receive a suspicious email relating to opportunities at Oyster from any other email domain where someone is claiming to be a part of our recruitment team, or are directed to anywhere other than www.oysterhr.com/careers to view our available jobs we encourage you to submit a report through our Compliance and Ethics Helpline.