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Customer Support / Client Experience Specialist

Virtuhire
South AfricaSouth Africa
Full-time
Not Disclosed
Entry-Level

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Our client is looking for a highly professional, articulate, and customer-focused Customer Support / Client Experience Specialist to support customers across multiple communication channels.

This is a hands-on customer-facing role focused on delivering a consistently high-quality client experience. You will engage directly with customers across Zendesk, WhatsApp, SMS, email, social media, and virtual support calls, helping resolve queries, manage concerns, and ensure customers receive clear and timely assistance.

Previous customer service experience is not essential. The client is specifically open to candidates with a strong academic background who demonstrate excellent communication skills, professionalism, problem-solving ability, and the capacity to learn quickly.

A completed university degree is an essential requirement for this position.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide professional customer support across Zendesk, WhatsApp, SMS, email, social media DMs, and virtual support calls.
  • Respond to customer enquiries promptly, professionally, and accurately.
  • Assist customers with questions, concerns, and general product or service-related support.
  • Take ownership of customer queries and follow them through to resolution.
  • Handle complaints calmly and professionally while maintaining a positive customer experience.
  • Identify customer needs and provide clear, practical solutions.
  • Escalate complex queries appropriately when required.
  • Maintain accurate records of customer interactions and follow-ups.
  • Learn and follow internal customer support processes, workflows, and SOPs.
  • Work closely with the wider team to ensure consistency across customer communication.
  • Identify recurring customer issues and provide feedback that could improve the overall client experience.

Essential Requirements

  • Completed university degree – essential.
  • Excellent written and spoken English.
  • Strong verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Professional, confident, and comfortable communicating directly with customers.
  • Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
  • High level of attention to detail and organization.
  • Ability to remain calm and structured when dealing with customer complaints or challenging conversations.
  • Comfortable communicating across multiple digital channels.
  • Tech-savvy and able to learn new platforms and systems quickly.
  • Reliable, proactive, and able to take ownership of outcomes.
  • Comfortable working independently within a fully remote environment.
  • Available to work Tuesday–Saturday on an ongoing basis.

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VirtuHire is a premier, enterprise-grade talent acquisition and remote workforce platform engineered to orchestrate massive-scale distributed human capital ecosystems and intelligent virtual team workflows. Operating as a highly integrated remote talent hub, the company eliminates the operational friction of traditional localized hiring by seamlessly deploying advanced candidate sourcing, rigorous vetting architectures, and cohesive global onboarding frameworks. Moving beyond rigid legacy staffing agencies, VirtuHire empowers high-growth startups and agile enterprises to dynamically synchronize their operational bandwidth with elite, highly vetted remote professionals. Under the hood, their sophisticated talent infrastructure natively handles complex global talent matching and seamless digital integration, ensuring frictionless operational readiness and uncompromising team productivity. What sets VirtuHire apart is its uncompromising dedication to frictionless talent orchestration; by bridging the gap between strategic corporate demand and world-class distributed expertise, the platform empowers organizations to radically accelerate their hiring velocity, minimize administrative overhead, and build an unassailable foundation for continuous operational expansion.

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