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Paddle • Lisbon

Junior Support Specialist

Employment type:  Full time

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top 3 scores:
96%

Location flexibility

96%

Hours flexibility

93%

Autonomy

Job Description

What do we do?

Paddle offers SaaS companies a completely different approach to their payment infrastructure. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, we’re a Merchant of Record for our customers. That means we take away 100% of the pain of payment fragmentation. It’s faster, safer, cheaper, and, above all, way better.

We’re backed by investors including KKR, FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North and serve over 3000 software sellers in 245 territories globally.

The Role:

We are looking for someone who would like to start their journey in customer support. You will be working with our buyers (end users) from software companies that use our platform, learning how to offer top-notch support. You'll be searching for transactions, processing refunds and subscription cancellation requests, and much more.

The ideal candidate will be able to follow our internal process we have in place as well as instructions set by our customers. You will have a strong sense of empathy and you care about people as much as you care about getting your work done. You also have a natural fluidity and thoughtfulness to your written and verbal communication.

You will be part of a global team of buyer support specialists, reporting to the Buyer Support Team Leads. This is a great opportunity if you care genuinely and passionately about customer support and the role it plays in making a customer-centric team successful. There is great growth potential within the role, with opportunities to progress into a Level 1 Customer support function, as well as several specialist roles within the company.

In this role, you will be working standard hours from Monday to Friday.

What you'll do:

  • Respond to and resolve queries from our customer’s customers via email. These are transactional queries such as refunds or cancellations.

  • Escalate advanced/ complex queries to the appropriate internal channels.

  • Continuously improve your knowledge of the Paddle products and increase your ability to understand more and more advanced queries in order to grow in your role.

  • Collect feedback, report any issues you come across, get involved in improving our processes and actively participate in team meetings.

We'd love to hear from you:

  • You have 0-2 years experience in a customer support, customer service, or customer-centric role, or you're eager to transition into your first customer-focused position.

  • You are a proficient English speaker.

  • You are happy to work remotely and are organised in communicating with teams across different time zones (GMT, AEST, EST).

  • You love interacting with and helping people.

  • You share experiences and feedback with others in order to build your skills.

  • You continuously seek to improve, rather than settling for the current state.

  • You have an investigative mindset and like to think out of the box.

It'd be great if

  • You have worked for a SaaS company, ideally offering customer support to other software companies.

  • You already have knowledge of Zendesk or any other helpdesk platforms.

  • You are tech-savvy.

  • You are comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, both autonomously and in collaboration with your teammates, where decisions may need to be made quickly, even without access to all of the information.

Everyone is welcome at Paddle

At Paddle, we’re committed to removing invisible barriers, both for our customers and within our own teams. We recognise and celebrate that every Paddler is unique and we welcome every individual perspective. As an inclusive employer, we don’t care if, or where, you studied, what you look like or where you’re from. We’re more interested in your craft, curiosity, passion for learning and what you’ll add to our culture. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t match every part of the job ad, especially if you’re part of an underrepresented group.

Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to better support you through the application process and in the workplace. We will do everything we can to support any accommodations needed. We’re committed to building a diverse team where everyone feels safe to be their authentic self. Let’s grow together.


Why you’ll love working at Paddle

We are a diverse, growing group of Paddlers across the globe who pride ourselves on our transparent, collaborative and respectful culture.

We live and breathe our values, which are:

Exceptional Together

Execute with impact

Better than Yesterday

We offer a full suite of benefits, including attractive salaries, stock options, retirement plans, private healthcare and well-being initiatives.

We are a ‘digital-first’ company, which means you can work remotely, from one of our stylish hubs, or even a bit of both! We offer all team members unlimited holidays and enhanced parental leave. We invest in learning and will help you with your personal development via constant exposure to new challenges, an annual learning fund, and regular internal and external training.

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Work from anywhere scheme
Unlimited annual leave
L&D budget
Equity packages
Work from home budget
Mental Health Support
Office disability facilities
Faith and meditation space

We asked employees of Paddle what it's like to work there, and this is what they told us.

Location flexibility
96%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours flexibility
96%
Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
75%
Employees are largely happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
84%
Employees feel that they can find the perfect balance of life and work
Role modelling
92%
Employees feel that flexible working is part of the culture
Autonomy
93%
Employees feel they have complete autonomy over getting their work done

Working at Paddle

Company employees

320+

Gender diversity (male:female)

60:40

Funding levels

$293.3m

Currently Hiring Countries

Canada

Portugal

United Kingdom

United States

Office Locations

Awards & Achievements

Most flexible companies

Most flexible companies

Flexa100 2024
SaaS & Software

SaaS & Software

Industry awards 2023
1st – Medium companies

1st – Medium companies

Flexa100 2023
Saas & Dev Software

Saas & Dev Software

Industry awards 2022