Platform Specialist (Zendesk)

Job Description

Company Description

Depop is the community-powered fashion marketplace to buy and sell unique fashion, with over 30 million registered users in more than 150 countries. Depop is a place for anyone to discover and celebrate their style on their own terms, and to feel good about their fashion choices by extending the lives of millions of garments.

The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in London with offices in Manchester and New York. Depop has approximately 400 employees dedicated to its mission of building the world’s most diverse progressive home of fashion, that’s kinder on the planet and kinder to people. In 2021, Depop became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy - the global marketplace for unique and creative goods - and continues to operate as a standalone company.

Depop is an equal opportunity employer. Our mission is to build the world’s most diverse progressive home of fashion. To do this, we encourage people from underrepresented communities to apply. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We’re continuing to build recruitment processes that are fair and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments required throughout your interview experience with us. Depop supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skillsets.

Job Description

The Role

The Community Support team is an integral part of our business. It serves as the voice of Depop to our Community, answering questions they have, solving disputes and making Depop a safe place to be. The Platform Administrator oversees the function of Zendesk within Community Support. They will be responsible for driving improvements in our Zendesk instance to improve the agent experience, drive efficiencies and creating an environment where they are best placed to resolve our community’s issues

Responsibilities:

• Working in a fast paced, agile environment alongside our Senior Technology Operations Manager to deliver our Zendesk strategy
• Working to optimise our instance, launch new initiatives and improve the agent experience
• Administering the Zendesk platform and maintaining all supported channels, business rules and agent groups, updating views, managing integrations and troubleshooting issues as needed
• Manage all of our existing channels and working alongside our Senior Technology Operations Manager to introduce any new channels
• Working to consistently improve our routing to drive agent efficiencies.
• Utilising problem solving skills to create solutions in Zendesk where no out of the box solutions might exist.
• Working directly with Zendesk or any third party for internal tooling improvements
• Owning user reporting via Zendesk Guide and constantly iterating and making improvements to this flow, consulting with various stakeholders along the way.
• Educating other key stakeholders on how to “self-serve” in Zendesk to decentralise administration where possible and create contingency plans in case of incidents whilst maintaining governance as our main admin.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• At least 2 years of Zendesk admin experience
• Proven problem solving skills in Zendesk
• Ability to capture and utilise data to make decisions
• Experience in prioritising tasks and solutions
• Experience in implementation or maintenance of Zendesk Messaging
• Any experience with navigating and updating legacy HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Zendesk Admin Certifications is a plus

Additional Information

UK Benefits
Health + Mental Wellbeing

• Cash-plan or PMI - you have the choice of a healthcare plan that best suits you
• Subsidised counselling and coaching - we partner with Selfspace to provide you the opportunity for a good conversation with a qualified person
• Cycle to Work scheme - choose between Evans or the Green Commute Initiative to help access a bike for your commute
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - have access to a confidential support network of expert advice 24/7
• Mental Health First Aiders - we have trained individuals across the business to offer support and signposting

Work/Life balance

• 25 days annual leave with the option to carryover up to 5 days
• 1 company-wide day off per quarter, for you to take some time for yourself and decompress
• 2 activism days per year for you to use for volunteering, demonstrations or internal initiatives
• We offer sabbaticals for our long serving employees.

Flexible Working

We’re Flexa® accredited, meaning we offer genuinely flexible working;

• We'd love you to head to your nearest Depop office once a week, but feel free to work from home the rest of the week!
• Want to head into the office more? No problem, you can opt to be "Office-Based", with your very own desk.
• Do you do your best work from home? You can also request to be a remote worker, and only head into the office 4 times per year *role dependent

• In the office, we provide healthy snacks, tea and coffee and the occasional surprise treats!
• All of our offices are also dog-friendly! Do your best work with your best friend.
• Apply to work abroad 4 weeks of the year (in UK tax treaty countries)

Family Life

• Maternity + Paternity Leave, plus adoption leave, IVF leave, shared parental leave + paid emergency parent/carer leave

Learn and Grow

• We offer a personal learning budget for every employee and also sponsor and run a myriad of programmes, conferences and meet-ups to upskill our employees and enhance their journey with us.

Your Future

• Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
• Pension (Depop will match your contribution up to 6% of your qualifying earnings)
  

And finally, as a valued Depop employee We waive all of our employees’ fees when they sell on Depop and also ship your sold items anywhere in the UK for free using our team’s account.