Technical Support Specialist

Smarking is a leading provider of enterprise software and data technology solutions for the massively overlooked $655B global parking industry.

This is an excellent position for a highly capable and successful professional with technical background, empathy for customers, and excellent communication and problem solving skills, who's ready to take on bigger responsibilities and a leap of faith, to not only continue tackling tricky technical support problems and making customers happy, but also help scale the customer support practice following the rapid growth of the product features, client and user base, and solution suites on a daily basis.

Reporting to the Manager, Implementation and Support, this role will be responsible for expeditiously resolving customer support tickets with great resolution quality and customer communication to promote retention and customer loyalty with Smarking. Although initially an individual contributor role, ideal candidates will be ready and able to assume managerial responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Learn Smarking products inside and out.
• Day to day ownership of the Smarking customer support work results with high speed and quality
• Capture, respond, resolve, and track all inbound customer support requests
• Work cross-functionally with Account and Customer Success Managers, Implementation reps, and Engineers to proactively identify, communicate, and resolve customer issues
• QA of the Smarking system including new releases
• Provide feedback to engineering to influence bug fixes and product enhancements
• Document, streamline, and improve Smarking's customer support practice
• Helping build and embody a deep seeded customer focused organization and culture
• Professional interactions with parking industry peers

Qualifications (Experience)

• 3+ years work experience
• Customer support experience with a well-known, and customer-centric organization
• Technical experience in SQL: ability to write and debug queries and statements
• Familiarity with Basic network and IT infrastructure management, ETL frameworks, quality assurance, and AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, and ECS) is a plus
• A proven track record of goal attainment and overachievement, delivering exceptional customer service and support, and great communications with customers and colleagues
• Proficiency in JIRA, Salesforce, Excel, Google Suite
• PostgreSQL: ability to write and debug queries and statements

Qualifications (Character)

• Customer first
• Hungry for responsibility, impact, and growth
• Humble to learn, curious to learn, open-minded to learn
• Team player
• Strong sense of ownership
• Treat others with respect, empathy, and constructive candor

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus.
• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurances.
• 401K plan with 3% company hard match.
• $100 monthly data plan.
• Unlimited paid time off.
• Expenses for setting up home-office.

About Smarking

Smarking is a group of passionate MIT PhDs, data scientists, Silicon Valley engineers, and battle-tested business professionals, committed to enable highly efficient urban mobility by building the digital infrastructure for the massively overlooked $655B global parking industry ($131B in the US).

Smarking is hired by organizations like Brookfield Properties, City of Miami, ABM Industry Groups, and many other enterprise industry leaders to turn their parking data into business results.  Smarking's dynamic pricing engine has been creating 40%-400% revenue uplift for online parking sales at parking facilities in Chicago, NYC, Boston, and many other cities, without any manual involvement required from property managers, leveraging fully automatic algorithm-driven yield management technologies similar to the airline and hotel industries. 

By providing the very first business intelligence and yield management enterprise SaaS to the parking industry, Smarking is establishing itself as an emerging leader in the US parking market. Smarking currently works with 2,500+ parking locations cross North America, based in San Francisco, and backed by top investors like Khosla Ventures and Y Combinator.