Technical Support Specialist - German

Who we are:

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

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About the Role: 

As a Technical Support Specialist, you will serve as the main point of contact for issues and questions about Motive. You will not only be responsible for providing world-class assistance via calls and emails, but will also have the opportunity to define Motive’s support processes and work with our team to develop and scale the Technical Support function. As a bilingual Technical Support Specialist, you will be responsible for providing support in both German and English.

What You’ll Do: 

• Provide bilingual German & English Email, Chat, and Voice Support - Answer inbound inquiries coming through Motive’s support hotline, live chat feature, or support email address during European business hours
• Customer Service Analysis - Collect customer support requests and bugs, and relay findings to the product and engineering teams to address these issues
• System Evaluation - Evaluate our existing tools and work with engineering to develop tools to enable this function to scale

What We’re Looking For: 

• Bilingual or Native speaker in German and English (US)
• Skilled in written communication (both German and English)
• Natural instinct to empathize with users
• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Comfortable working in European time zones, with flexibility to support other time zones if needed

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