Ticket Ownership : Be primary responder for the queue; acknowledge, triage, and resolve tickets across email / portal / phone / chat.
Customer Communication : Keep customers informed with clear, friendly updates and realistic ETAs; jump on Zoom / phone when needed.
Troubleshooting : Reproduce issues, analyze logs, collect diagnostics, and deliver workarounds or fixes.
Escalations : Identify P1 / P2 incidents, follow runbooks, and hand off cleanly to Tier 3 / Engineering with crisp context.
Documentation : Create / update knowledge base articles, macros, and runbooks; improve templates and tagging.
Quality & Hygiene : Maintain SLAs / SLOs, categorize tickets accurately, and ensure thorough notes.
Tooling & Automation : Suggest and implement improvements (views, rules, alerts, workflows).
Post-Incident Follow-up : Draft RCAs for customer-facing incidents in partnership with engineering / ops.
Feedback Loop : Aggregate recurring issues into product / bug reports with impact and repro steps.
Requirements
2–4 years in a service desk / technical support role (SaaS, IT, or developer-facing product).
Strong troubleshooting skills and structured thinking; comfortable with logs, APIs, and basic networking.
Excellent written & verbal communication; empathetic with a service mindset.
Experience with a modern ticketing system (e.g., Zendesk, Jira Service Management, Freshdesk).
Familiarity with incident management (ITIL-lite is fine) and SLA tracking.
Comfortable working U.S. business hours with light on-call rotation.
Basic scripting (e.g., Bash, Python) for log parsing or simple automations.
Experience supporting computer vision / ML , edge devices, or REST APIs.
Exposure to observability tools (Datadog, Grafana), and log tools (ELK).
Certifications : ITIL Foundation, HDI, CompTIA A+ / Network+.
Benefits
Chooch offers extensive benefits including health, dental, vision insurance, 401K with 3% match, extensive PTO, and life insurance policies included.
Service Desk Analyst • San Mateo, CA, US