software Product Specialist / technical supportSynacy

We are hiring a Product Specialist as part of our customer team. This role works with our teams that are both on-site in our office in Cebu, Philippines, as well as our distributed team, who normally work between the +8 UTC (Cebu) to +10 UTC (Sydney) time zones.
This role is part of our Customer Operations team and is currently required to be on-site in our offices all the time. Though flexibility to be remote occasionally is subject to approval, the expectation is to be in the office full time.
You will be part of our customer team, composed of product specialists and customer program managers. Most of the time, work is autonomous. However, constant online collaboration with others is expected over Slack, Zoom, and Google Hangouts.
This role is primarily supporting our customers and users in using our products; as well as being an expert of our products to support our staff in the company. Work is a combination of handling support tickets, as well as writing user guides and answers to FAQs. Further, as we release new features, participate in doing user testing, file bug reports, and validate fixes.
What You Will Be Doing
As a Product Specialist, you will have the following functions:
Respond to inquiries from customers, users, and our staff about our products, and help them understand our product
Triage, troubleshoot, and help users resolve problems they have encountered in using our products
Perform data management, and data reporting tasks as requested by customers and by our staff
Inspect, test, file bug reports, and validate fixes for features ready for release
Write content and contribute to the build-up of both internal and customer-facing knowledge base
Participate in design workshops on usability, functionality, quality, and performance, representing frontline experience and acting as a proxy for the user
Performs user acceptance testing for solutions being developed before they are deployed to production
Ensures that user feedback is relayed in appropriate channels and documented properly to capture customer insights
Find ways to reach out to customers to participate in testing mockups and prototypes to solve their problems
Contribute to improving automated solutions to lessen the flow of support tickets
Participate in team activities to deliver software that satisfy business needs
Responsible for self-assessment as part of our weekly self-reported check-ins
Continuously learning to ensure useful and effective participation in the teams
Who You Are
We are looking for someone with the following qualifications:
Motivated to help others resolve problems and achieve their goals
Able to understand problems at multiple levels, troubleshoot, and propose solutions
Able to navigate chaotic and complex situations, and simplify for others to understand
At least the equivalent of 3 years work experience, in a Product Specialist, technical support, software tester, or a quality assurance role, for a software or IT product
Experience in technical writing, particularly user guides, product knowledge base, and support FAQs
Knowledge and experience in making screenshot and imaging tools for annotation, or in making screencasts and voice-over for video-based instructions
Knowledge of concepts in telecommunications, cloud systems, IT and information security best practices
Knowledge and experience of any programming language, either for work or for a hobby, is an advantage;
Knowledge and experience in querying database, exporting data, and manipulating data in spreadsheets is an advantage
Basic shell usage of Linux-based systems (CentOS, Ubuntu), networking configuration of computer and networks
Knowledge of testing practices, software quality principles, software development methods and lifecycle
Empathetic to users and has high regard for a good customer experience
With strong communication skills, openness to new ideas, resourceful, and eager to continuously learn
Self-discipline and good work ethics
Good verbal and written communication
Good time management and able to minimize distractions
Amenable to work full-time in-office work setup (Kasambagan, Cebu)
What We Offer
An environment of a sports team that is there to coach each other while being performant
A software engineering culture that strives to build high quality software
An organization of autonomous teams, exploring and trying out solutions in a safe environment
A place for you to learn, practice, develop yourself, and contribute to something meaningful
A front seat at a fast growing, global company with a lot of opportunities in software and technology with exposure in telecommunications and web
Flexibility and a wide array of health and well-being incentives to keep you balanced
An opportunity to work with some of the best and smartest people around
About Our Software Team
At Synacy, we develop our own products. Our founders, product teams, engineering teams, and customer support teams are all part of the same company, co-located in our offices (mainly in Cebu and Manila) and work closely together to develop products that delight our customers.
Our software team is composed of 3 to 5 cross-functional members and is designed to be complete and responsible for delivering complete features to users. We expect our engineers to be not just writing code, but to participate in the entire process from investigating problems, designing solutions, and implementing them into features our users will love. In addition, we have a leadership team that is composed of team leads, product managers, and engineering managers, that work together in leading the entire software group.
We use a goal-oriented product roadmap to keep all our teams aligned, which is updated in a weekly cycle by the leadership team. Further, we maintain a corresponding release plan based on a monthly release cycle, where we break down features into sizeable chunks that our teams can work with as little inter-team dependency as possible.
Our teams apply an agile process of weekly planning, retrospectives, daily check-in, pair programming, and use Trello to visualize our progress. All our code is version controlled in Github and all code changes go through a peer-review process.
We have a continuous delivery pipeline, using CircleCI and CloudFormation, and perform deployment using automated tools in our AWS production site. We built most of our automation tools and we expect all our engineers to participate in maintaining our development tools, delivery pipelines, and production sites.
Our teams are encouraged to spend time developing their knowledge and skills so they stay relevant in their field. We have self-initiated learning sessions and allocate time in weekly sprints for learning activities.
About The Company
Synacy is a global company developing software products in the Philippines using international best practices and delivering them to our customers around the world. We aim to help businesses be competitive in a consolidating telecommunications and technology market and give them access to opportunities that until now only large companies can realise.
We believe the best results for end users and customers come from having a number of various companies providing the best to service them. We want to enable them to thrive by providing the infrastructure and tools for them to sell new telecom products and enhance the value they deliver to their customers.
Though we are based in the Philippines, our founders are originally from Australia and we have a diverse and multinational leadership team, bringing in perspectives from different backgrounds and cultures. We continuously learn from each other to become better at what we do.
Our company offers our products under a few brands. At UTBox, Monopond, and BurstFax, we offer fax and SMS messaging products available globally for retail and wholesale use. We also founded an internet service provider to accelerate the internet in the Philippines called RISE. At RISE, we offer competitive fiber-based internet access to businesses located in major cities in the country.
It is our intent to form a globally competitive organization. We believe talented and remarkable people are found anywhere in the world. At the moment, we have most of our teams co-located in our offices in the Philippines. However, we don't limit our reach here and are forming a remote-first culture within our organization so we can offer the opportunity to current and new members to work wherever they are productive.
A few of our strategies:
Software and automation is at our core. We believe in an efficient, resilient, and scalable approach. Work smarter not harder, so that when you work hard you are working smart.
To our customers, we want to offer a complete service in an integrated package.
We have taken the challenge of integrating with many telecommunication providers in the world and aggregated our customer traffic to offer consistent quality at the best possible price.
Hiring Process
We understand that applying for a new job or even looking for new opportunities can be a tedious and stressful process. We aim to give our applicants a good experience by being timely, efficient, and direct. We'd like for you to select us and we look forward to working together.
Even if you are not looking for work now, we encourage you to apply since you may go through our qualification process and assess our offer without any commitment to accept immediately. If you like what you are getting then you can plan with us on when you will eventually join.
PRIVACY STATEMENT
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Synacy

Philippines
Permanent
Full-time