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Join Thumbtack as a Customer Success Specialist (CSS) and play a pivotal role in offering home improvement solutions by addressing the needs of millions of customers
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Thumbtack is a fast-growing organization that utilizes cutting-edge technology to help homeowners across the U.S. manage and improve their homes. As a CSS, your role will be instrumental in resolving customer queries and addressing their needs to improve their homes. This role involves working across different communication channels such as phone, chat, SMS, and email. The candidate must have a knack for customer service and the ability to adapt sales techniques to suit diverse needs.
Role Summary:
- Partner with customers to address their needs effectively.
- Maintain a deep understanding of Thumbtack's products and services.
- Handle a minimum of 55 inbound and outbound calls daily.
- Identify up-selling opportunities to existing customers.
- Address customer concerns and recommend effective solutions.
- Establish strong customer relations while resolving inquiries.
- Follow up actively with customers through SMS or email, while maintaining high-performance metrics.
- Make insightful decisions considering both customer and company needs.
Role Requirements:
- 1–2 years of customer service experience with experience in up-selling or cross-selling, preferably in the BPO or Shared Services industry.
- Proven high-volume sales experience.
- Proficiency in English.
- Experience in Prospecting and Pipeline Management.
- Experience in Salesforce and Google Suite, and knowledge of Home Services in the US will be an added advantage.
Application Process Details: Thumbtack has a virtual-first working model, enabling you to work from various approved locations. For request of reasonable accommodation during any part of the application process, please contact - recruitingops@thumbtack.com. Thumbtack embraces diversity and equal opportunity in its workspace.
Thumbtack helps millions of people confidently care for their homes.
Thumbtack is the one app you need to take care of and improve your home — from personalized guidance to AI tools and a best-in-class hiring experience. Every day in every county of the U.S., people turn to Thumbtack to complete urgent repairs, seasonal maintenance and bigger improvements. We help homeowners know which projects to do, when to do them and who to hire from our growing community of 300,000 local service businesses. If making an impact inspires you, join us. Imagine what we’ll build together.
About the Role
As a Customer Success Specialist (CSS), you bring our Thumbtack mission to life! This is a part of our outbound sales and success efforts, where you would work specifically to resolve customer plans to service their homes. By handling customer requests through our users' different channels (phone, chat, SMS, and email), you navigate the challenges of customer needs, profile requests, and more specifically service inquiries. Our best representatives are enthusiastic individuals who thrive in a fast-paced revenue driving environment that builds customer trust, loyalty, and drive departmental goals.
The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in outbound and inbound sales efforts, with experience in recovery and expansion programs. Must also be adaptable in your sales pitch to meet customer and departmental needs.
What you’ll do
- Partner with our customers by listening to their needs and providing the best solutions - you’re the expert!
- Maintain excellent knowledge of Thumbtack’s products and services, as well as industry standards and best practices for home maintenance, improvement, and repair projects.
- Participate in at least 55 inbound and outbound calls per day with our users to determine the best solution to get jobs done.
- Successfully build rapport with the customers and be able to anticipate their needs
- Identify opportunities to cross-sell additional products or services to existing customers.
- Actively listen to customer concerns, have the ability to probe, and be able to provide recommendations when necessary.
- Troubleshoot and resolve customer inquiries with effective problem-solving and de-escalating skills while building a relationship with the caller.
- Proactively follow up with customers via SMS and/or email.
- Maintain high-performance metrics including revenue attainment, quality adherence, efficiency, customer satisfaction, and net promoter scores.
- Continuously look for areas of improvements that drive revenue and communicate trends to the appropriate parties.
- Make independent and insightful decisions while keeping the customer and company needs in mind.
- Engage with team members through weekly development sessions, training, and support interactions that help build each other.
In order to be successful, you must bring
- At least 1–2 years of customer service experience, with a minimum of 6 months of upselling or cross-selling exposure, preferably in the BPO or Shared Services industry
- Proven experience in high-volume sales with a track record of meeting or exceeding quotas. You prioritize converting customer requests and driving revenue while delivering an exceptional customer experience.
- English proficiency
- Have a collaborative attitude to share techniques and success with the team
- Prospecting and Pipeline Management experience
Bonus points if you have
- Previous experience with, or interest in learning about Home Services in the US is a plus.
- Marketing or advertising sales experience
- Salesforce experience
- Google Suite experience
Thumbtack is a virtual-first company, meaning you can live and work from any one of our approved locations across the United States, the Ontario region of Canada or the Philippines.* Learn more about our virtual-first working model here. #LI-Remote
Thumbtack embraces diversity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, state, or local law. We also will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable law.
Thumbtack is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a medical condition or disability during any part of the application process, please contact: [email removed - click apply for more details].
If you are a California resident, please review information regarding your rights under California privacy laws contained in Thumbtack’s Privacy policy available at https://www.thumbtack.com/privacy/ .
