Technical Support Specialist

Job description

Aircall is a unicorn, AI-powered customer communications platform used by 22,000+ companies worldwide to drive revenue, resolve issues faster, and scale customer-facing teams. We’re redefining customer communications by bringing voice, SMS, WhatsApp, and AI together into one seamless workspace. Our momentum comes from a simple idea: help teams work smarter, not harder. Aircall’s AI Voice Agent automates routine calls, AI Assist streamlines post-call work, and AI Assist Pro delivers real-time guidance so people can do their best work. The result is higher revenue, faster resolutions, and teams that scale with confidence. Aircall is headquartered in Paris, our European HQ, with a strong North American presence anchored in Seattle, our North American HQ, and teams across Madrid, London, Berlin, San Francisco, New York City, Sydney, and Mexico City. We’ve built a product customers love and a business that’s scaling quickly, backed by world-class investors and driven by rapid AI innovation across multiple product lines. At Aircall, you’ll join a company in motion. We’re ambitious, product-driven, and execution-focused, with visible impact, fast decisions, and real growth. **How we work at Aircall:** We’re customer-obsessed, data-driven, and focused on delivering meaningful outcomes. We value ownership, continuous learning, and thoughtful speed. If you thrive in a collaborative, fast-moving environment where trust and impact matter, you’ll feel at home here. **About the Role:** We are recruiting a **Technical Support Specialist who will work remotely from Portugal.** As a Technical Support Specialist, you will join a team that operates as a second point of contact for Aircall's customers across the globe. You will work directly with them to help solve complex technical and operational questions. As a Technical Support Specialist, you will have a direct impact on their ability to make and receive phone calls, leverage the right products/integrations and grow their business. Every day you will be working with multiple teams across Aircall, such as Success, Engineering, Product, Onboarding, and Sales to provide white-glove service and support. Our team is customer-focused, highly motivated, and thrives on our shared success. You will be part of an international team with diverse backgrounds and skill sets. With Aircall being a 24/5 business we operate throughout various time zones using a follow-the-sun model. Our extensive product knowledge and technical skillset is our most valuable asset both to our customers and our internal teams. ### Key Responsibilities: - Receive and respond to escalate Customer cases regarding technical and functional questions or issues; - Handle a variety of complex issues dealing with various platforms, operating systems, applications, integrations, inbound/outbound calling, caller ID, calling features, etc. Analyze, reproduce, and be part of the resolution; - Assist the Frontline Support team to train them on some specific topics, and improve how the issues are escalated to the Technical Support team. Train the Customer Support Team about relevant subjects. Create and maintain internal documentation; - Work closely with developers and product management colleagues to diagnose, understand, and resolve issues. Mitigate risks in potential features, and bring best practices to the Customer Support Team; - Take ownership with internal and external stakeholders to define and resolve systemic issues, and suggest product enhancements and eventual workarounds. Recommend and support the implementation of process improvements; - Monitor Customer Support metrics to proactively identify trends and recurring issues. Follow up with customers to ensure ongoing high levels of satisfaction ### Qualifications: - Aptitude for understanding providing excellent customer service including clear communication, problem solving and technical writing skills in English (Other Languages are a plus); - Possess good organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple issues simultaneously within a fast-paced and changing environment; - Positive self-starter, willing to dig into complex issues, able to take direction, and work within a team environment; - Willingness to consistently improve and try different approaches and perspectives; - Empathetic and active listener, with the ability to see each situation from someone else’s viewpoint; - Aptitude to learn and support new products and features; - Motivation to learn by yourself and seek knowledge. ### Hard skills - Basic understanding of telephony routing, including IVR, ACD, and DTMF; - Foundational understanding of the OSI model; - Experience using and managing ticket-based enterprise workflow management systems, applying ITIL concepts. Familiarity with Zendesk and Atlassian products notability JIRA; - Foundational knowledge about Operating Systems (Windows, Mac OS, Android, iOS); - Ability to read, parse and manipulate various technical formats including XML, EDI and CSV; - Familiarity with logging tools such as DataDog; - Familiarity with reporting tools such as Looker; - API knowledge, using Postman, SOAPui and Webhooks; - Browser developer console troubleshooting and basic understanding of HTML; - Comfortable with SQL; - Experience with CRM tools such as Salesforce, Hubspot, Zoho, etc. ### Preferred experience - Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and critical-thinking skills; - You are familiar with working in remote or hybrid environments; - Excellent written and verbal communication skills; - Previous experience in a client-facing technical role for a SaaS or telecom business; - Ability to convey complex ideas in layman's terms; - Comfortable multitasking in a fast-paced environment; - Familiar with organizing workflows and be process oriented; - Committed, ambitious, team player, and outcome-oriented.