About Kami
Kami is a thriving organisation filled to the brim with talented, creative, and passionate people! It’s hard not to love what you do when our leading digital classroom platform offers meaningful solutions to over 70 million users worldwide, empowering students and supporting teachers!
You’ll be joining at a pretty magical time. Kami’s user base is growing by the day. With over 170 team members across the world, we couldn’t be prouder of the accomplishments and milestones we’ve achieved to date. Now, this is your chance to join our team and become an integral member of Kami’s growth, while shaping your own future (and having fun doing it)!
The Opportunity
As a Customer Support Analyst, you are the face and voice of Kami, playing a vital role in ensuring our users feel supported and heard. You won't just be answering tickets; you’ll be a dedicated problem-solver who enjoys diving into the details of how our platform works to help teachers and students succeed. This is a unique opportunity to grow your technical skills in a fast-paced environment while working across two incredible products: Kami and Book Creator.
You will be the bridge between our users’ needs and our product’s evolution, identifying trends and helping us get better every day. If you are someone who loves helping people, has a knack for troubleshooting, and wants to build a career in a mission-driven tech company, this is the perfect place to start your next chapter.
What You’ll Do
- Handle a variety of customer inquiries via email and chat, diagnosing technical issues for both Kami and Book Creator with patience and precision.
- Maintain consistently high CSAT (Customer Satisfaction) scores and meet response time benchmarks to ensure our users feel supported and valued.
- Go beyond the "easy fix" to investigate more complex bugs or integration hurdles, ensuring our users get thorough and lasting solutions.
- Create screen-shares or set up calls when needed to help a user navigate Providing a human touch to difficult technical situations with customers, while gathering detailed information for escalation to engineering team
- Work closely with other team members and engineers to report bugs effectively, helping us squash issues before they affect more users.
- Stay up-to-date in Slack and Notion on all product features and updates, proactively sharing what you learn with the rest of the team.
- Act as a subject matter expert for the frontline team, contributing to an updated internal knowledge base that helps everyone resolve issues faster.
What You’ll Bring
- You have 3+ years of experience in a customer-facing role, preferably within a SaaS or fast-paced tech environment. You understand the rhythm of a support queue and love helping people.
- You possess strong critical thinking skills and a genuine love for solving puzzles. When a piece of software doesn't work as expected, you don't give up—you dig in to find out why.
- You are comfortable troubleshooting browser-based software and are a quick study when it comes to new tools (like HubSpot, Intercom, or Slack). If you don't know the answer, you know how to find it.
- Empathetic Communication, you can take a complex technical explanation and translate it into simple, friendly steps for a teacher or a parent who might be feeling frustrated.
- You are a self-starter who can manage your own time and tickets effectively. You thrive in a remote or distributed team environment where proactive communication is key.
- While not required, an interest in EdTech or experience working with schools/teachers is a huge plus. You care about making a difference in the classroom!
Why Kami?
We’re building a high performance, best in class team to help capitalize on our exciting momentum, and continue scaling Kami's magic and making a difference to schools, students, and teachers. With Kami, you’ll have
- A people-first employer that is on an inspiring mission to build the future of education while changing the lives of millions
- High calibre and diverse team ranging from successful startup veterans, to Fortune 500 and big tech professionals
- Continuous learning and development opportunities, including subsidised course fees, certifications, conferences, and free access to Udemy and more
- A strong mission; the satisfaction of knowing you’re not only helping modern-day superheroes, aka teachers but also helping them shape the minds of future generations all across the globe
- Happy customers: Helping thousands of schools worldwide through the digital transformation of education for the 21st century. Just read our reviews.
- Huge potential: Already used by 70M users in 175 countries. One of the most popular and fastest-growing EdTech platforms worldwide.
What We Do
We come to work everyday to help foster a positive learning journey for everyone. Kami was developed in Aotearoa, New Zealand by four university friends who decided to make a difference. Ten years later, we’ve grown into a team of over 100 Kami-leons with a shared goal of supporting classroom heroes and leveling the playing field so that all students, no matter their age, grade, or ability, can love learning. We’re proud to have been named one of Time magazine’s most influential companies in 2022 and included in the Deloitte Fast 50 as the fastest growing company and fastest growing exporter in 2021. Our investors include leading Australian venture capitalist firm Right Click Capital, CapitalPitch, New Zealand-based Flying Kiwi Angels, New Zealand Venture Investment Fund, and notable Silicon Valley investors such as Sam Altman of Y Combinator and Scott Nolan of Founders Fund. Our Team: We believe that having a dedicated, enthusiastic, and non-hierarchical team can achieve remarkable things — we’re well on-track to proving it, too. Our company culture embraces diversity, compassion, transformation, and most importantly, fun! With these values, we're working to add a little magic to education so that teachers and students can achieve so much more together. We thrive in an encouraging environment where people can share ideas, generate solutions, and grow. Join us in building the future of education. Get in touch at [email protected], we’d love to hear from you!
