Customer Experience Associate
BioRender
Customer Service
Canada · Remote
Role Summary
Responsibilities
- Deliver fast, accurate, and kind support across email, chat, and phone; resolving inquiries with thoroughness and empathy
- Handle the full range of ticket types across customer segments, developing the product knowledge required to support users at every stage of the customer lifecycle
- Troubleshoot technical issues with precision and care, documenting findings and escalating to Engineering, Product, Customer Success, or Sales with clear context, suggested next steps, and specific questions
- Recognize when a conversation would be better served through a different channel and proactively shift modality (e.g., moving from email to a call) to improve the customer's experience
- Identify recurring patterns in user issues and proactively surface insights to the team and through established feedback channels
- Contribute to the voice of the customer: relaying bugs, product friction, and user feedback in a way that helps Product and Engineering prioritize what matters
- Leverage AI tools (Ada, Claude) in daily workflows; using automation strategically to improve speed and quality while unlocking capacity for deeper, higher-value work
- Participate in team initiatives beyond individual queue work, including documentation, process improvements, retrospectives, and knowledge base contributions
- Maintain and continuously build product knowledge, staying current on releases, feature updates, and how changes affect different user segments
- Monitor individual and team CSAT across customer segments, understanding personal performance in the context of broader team and organizational goals
Qualifications
- 1+ years of experience in customer service, ideally in a SaaS or technology environment
- Bachelor's degree in the life sciences or a related field
- Clear, professional written and verbal communication
- Thorough and detail-oriented in troubleshooting, explaining options to users, and documenting knowledge for the team
- Comfort in a fast-paced environment where priorities shift quickly based on new information or changing timelines
- Initiative and ownership: voices ideas, challenges the status quo, and acts without waiting to be told
- Comfort with AI-driven support tools and a mindset toward leveraging automation to improve both efficiency and quality of support
- Collaborative and team-oriented: works toward shared outcomes, shares knowledge, and actively supports teammates
- Experience with Zendesk or similar ticketing platforms
- Familiarity with tools like Slack, Retool, Stripe, Looker, or Hex
- Experience supporting scientific or research-oriented users
Success Metrics
- Independently handling email, chat, and phone inquiries across all ticket types with confidence
- Comfortable collaborating with internal teams (Engineering, Product, Customer Success, Sales) and writing escalations that are clear and actionable without requiring follow-up clarification
- Quick to shift communication channels when the conversation calls for it
- Consistently completing at least 40 replies per business day while maintaining a personal CSAT of at least 90%
- Actively using AI tools (Ada, Claude) as part of daily workflow
- Continuously learning — asking questions, building product knowledge, seeking feedback
- Identifying recurring user patterns and proactively surfacing insights — seeing the system around the work, not just resolving individual tickets
- Contributing to at least one team initiative beyond inbox work (documentation, process improvement, retrospective, or similar)
- Demonstrating data awareness beyond personal metrics — understanding volume trends, segment-level patterns, and how individual work connects to broader CX outcomes
- Building enough domain depth that teammates begin routing questions their way
- Showing early signs of IC2 readiness: strategic thinking about user pain points, ownership mentality over a developing area of expertise, and growing cross-functional awareness
