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Customer Training Specialist

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Customer Training Specialist

About the job

SiteMinder is leader of the hotel technology space, challenging the status quo to provide innovative cloud-based products that allow hotels to connect with their guests. As a workplace, we continue to challenge the norm by hiring talented employees who are eager to help us expand our presence and establish SiteMinder as the leading cloud platform for hotels.

Now with five core offices around the world and over 27,000 (and counting) hotels using our software, we’ve come a long way from our humble beginnings in Sydney, Australia. After receiving a $30M investment from a Silicon Valley investor, we launched our Dallas office in 2014 on a mission to take over the American hotel market. SiteMinder may no longer be considered a tech startup, but we do strive to retain the same forward-thinking ambition and dynamic energy that made has made us an industry pioneer.

Customer Onboarding & Training Specialist 

The role of the Customer Onboarding Specialist is to set up and configure SiteMinder’s customers across the US and Canada with the SiteMinder product they have purchased and then provide ongoing technical and non-technical training. The Customer Onboarding Specialist is responsible for correctly implementing the software product and teaching the customer how to use it, ensuring the customer gets the full benefit of SiteMinder’s product while simultaneously providing a high level of customer satisfaction.

About you

As a Customer Training Specialist, you will:
  • Qualify customer requirements in a courteous and effective manner, preparing customers for technical implementation and identifying the appropriate setup requirements.
  • Identify and communicate the most appropriate training requirements for each customer.
  • Deliver a high standard of customer training via telephone, Skype, face-to-face communication and any other avenues when necessary.
  • Clearly communicate SiteMinder’s support procedures to customers to ensure ongoing satisfaction with SiteMinder’s customer service.
  • Assume ownership of customer problems and seek to identify, respond and resolve any issues before they become a conflict, ensuring a satisfactory solution for both SiteMinder and the customer.
  • Manage daily caseloads effectively, ensuring customers progress appropriately through the onboarding lifecycle in order to become a paying customer.
  • Regularly meet and/or exceed individual key performance indicators (KPIs) with cases appropriately prioritized.
  • What you bring:
  • Professional exposure to the hotel and/or travel technology industries.
  • 1-2 years of experience working in a KPI and service level agreement (SLA) driven environment, ideally within a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company.
  • Strong verbal and written communication
  • Some experience or familiarity with hotel and/or travel technology is highly preferred.
  • Exceptional communication skills, both verbal and written.
  • A passion for the online technology space and a strong technical aptitude.
  • Strong problem solving abilities and a high level of customer service.
  • Goal-oriented: motivated to set and exceed targets.
  • What SiteMinder brings (our perks!):
  • Competitive annual salary.
  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, dental and vision, with over 10 plans to choose from. Health insurance is effective starting day 1 of employment, so there's no 90 day wait period!
  • Ample paid vacation and sick leave.
  • 9 paid holidays per calendar year + birthday off.
  • Free gym access for employees.
  • Generous paid parental leave policy.
  • Company-paid "breakfast bar" coupled with free snacks and unlimited lattes.
  • Weekly office happy hours and quarterly company-sponsored events.
  • Contemporary, collaborative office space with the latest technology.
  • Global exposure. With over 500 employees in our international offices (Sydney, London, Bangkok and Galway) and 27,000+ hotels using our software in more than 100 different countries, you are guaranteed to interact with colleagues and customers across the globe.
    • Language required: English.

    The company

    As the leading cloud platform for hotels, SiteMinder allows hotels to attract, reach and convert guests across the globe. We serve hotels of all sizes with award-winning solutions for independents and groups alike, wherever they are in the world.

    SiteMinder’s products include The Channel Manager, the industry’s leading online distribution platform; TheBookingButton, a wholly-branded booking engine for direct bookings via the web, mobile or social; Canvas, the intelligent website creator for independent hoteliers; Prophet, real-time market intelligence solution that takes the guesswork out of pricing rooms; and GDS by SiteMinder, a single-point of entry to a six-figure network of travel agents and the world’s major GDSs.

    With more than 26,000 hotel customers and 400 of the industry’s top connectivity providers as our partners, today we have presence in more than 160 countries on six continents.

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    Dallas, TX, United States

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