Department: Customer Experience
Location: Remote, United States
Imagine Your Impact.
The Customer Success Specialist acts as a trusted partner to our small and mid-sized customers, delivering high-quality support without being assigned to specific accounts. Operating within a collaborative, queue-based team, this role ensures timely, empathetic, and accurate responses to a wide range of customer needs. By focusing on scalable service delivery and proactive issue resolution, the Specialist plays a vital role in driving customer satisfaction, retention, and overall success.
Position Information:
This is a regular, full-time position, reporting to the Customer Success Director.
Compensation:
Base pay is anticipated to be between $65,972.00 and $68,000.00 per year. Eligible employees may also receive incentive/commission/annual bonus pay based on individual and/or company performance. Compensation may vary based on factors such as, but not limited to, individual skills, experience, training, education/certifications, geographic location, internal equity, and local market conditions.
Location:
In this US-based position your location will be remote in Eastern Standard Time zone.
Travel:
You can also expect up to approximately 15-50% travel, so be sure you have a valid driver’s license and automobile insurance and a clean driving record for at least the preceding 39 months.
Envision Your Experience.
In this role you’ll have the opportunity to:
- Respond to customer inquiries via Zendesk with empathy, accuracy, and urgency.
- Troubleshoot product issues and escalate complex issues to internal teams.
- Provide guidance on product usage, implementation, and account setup.
- Initiate outreach based on lifecycle milestones (e.g., onboarding, mid-year check-ins, renewal prep).
- Share personalized tips, resources, and best practices based on customer activity and common use cases.
- Identify underutilizing customers and provide targeted recommendations to increase engagement.
- Follow up on resolved tickets to ensure satisfaction and offer additional support.
- Participate in campaigns to promote new features, seasonal readiness, or instructional strategies.
- Surface customer feedback and insights to inform product development and broader success strategies.
- Maintain detailed documentation of customer interactions and resolutions.
- Contribute to internal process improvements, automation efforts, and knowledge base development.
- Partner closely with Sales pre‑sale, and throughout the entire customer journey.
- Other duties as required.
Share Your Expertise.
Experience, education, and qualifications essential for success in this role, include:
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field and at least 2 years of relevant experience, which may include classroom teaching or instructional roles, supporting product implementations or onboarding, customer support, or supporting customer accounts in an education or education technology environment; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Experience with business drivers for teachers, students, business process owners, and senior district and/or state administration.
- Direct and proven work with establishing strategic outcomes and measurements.
- Experience working with and presenting results to senior level executives preferred.
- Ability to quickly establish rapport with all levels of personnel up to and including Superintendent and Chief Academic Officer.
- High energy level, demonstrated drive to succeed, and a sense of urgency.
- Ability to use and interpret data analytics and spreadsheets.
- Proficient within a fast-paced, growth organization is ideal.
- Excellent communication skills and analytical skills.
- This position is remote but may require approximately 15-50% travel, given your assigned territory.
Benefits:
Imagine Learning provides a comprehensive benefits program to eligible employees, including: multiple health, dental, and vision plans, including medical plans with zero employee premiums; 401k plan with a company match; 16 paid holidays, which include 2 floating holidays and a winter shutdown from Christmas Eve through New Year’s Day; paid time off; comprehensive maternity and fertility/family building benefits; paid bonding leave when a new child joins your family; access to on-demand mental health resources; life and short and long-term disability insurance; pre-tax savings plans; paid volunteer time off; a wide variety of professional development programs, including tuition reimbursement; work from home opportunities that foster work/life balance.