Job Description
Your New Role…
The International Advanced Support (Tier 3 of 3) Technician is a key member of the Global Customer Experience (CX) Strategy & Ops team. A subject matter expert over all WBD's products/services available in their markets, they provide advanced support for issues that cannot be resolved by lower tier support groups, while partnering closely with Regional and Global CX peers and leads.
The post holder will provide ongoing oversight over our frontline support advocates, identify improvement opportunities, and liaise across all CX support partners to provide frontline team members with guidance/data needed to ensure they're prepared for upcoming events/premiers and performing at
their best.
The ideal candidate will exhibit a combination of strong technical acumen and customer service excellence. They will have the ability to prioritize and resolve/complete complex issues/projects with professionalism and poise. They will work closely with Global CX Management to continuously challenge/define/refine what excellence means for CX. They will empower their local CX org and broader Global CX Advanced Support teams to continuously deliver on these goals to achieve the highest levels of customer satisfaction and support. They will have a flexible schedule that allows them to accommodate special business needs and events occurring outside of their regular schedule. Work Schedule: To support the needs of the Itailian market, the hours for this role will be Weekdays + live/marquee event coverage.
Your Role Accountabilities…
• The ability to speak, read, and write fluently in English and Italian is required for this position.
• Function as a subject matter expert over all WBD products/services available in region, as well as maintaining current knowledge over all responsibilities and SOPs maintained by the Advanced Support teams.
• Receive escalations directly from our frontline support teams (Tier 1 and 2) and continuously deliver positive outcomes for the toughest issues in the most challenging conversations across traditional and social channels.
• Identify, document, and escalate business side issues to appropriate extended teams for resolution
• Conduct deep-dive and root cause analysis investigations to identify troubleshooting
• workarounds and support recommendations for identified issues and emerging trends that cannot be resolved through known troubleshooting steps.
• Work cross-functionally with Leadership, extended QA, Engineering, Product and Program Management teams to provide information needed to resolve escalated issues.
• Assist our upstream escalation partners in maintaining a catalog of ongoing issues to ensure partner teams accurately understand issue impact, scope, and regularly communicate issue status to domestic and International teams.
• Backup all Global CX support teams across all channels and tiers, actively monitoring key channels, quickly responding to inquiries that need immediate assistance, and identifying then guiding potentially sensitive conversations to a swift resolution
• Assist CX crisis/event management efforts by providing technical guidance and support-related updates during service disruptions, outages, movie/show premiers, and other high impact events. At times fully representing the Global CX org.
• Accommodate occasional work schedule changes as needed to support events and premiers occurring outside of regular business hours.
• Occasionally travel to provide on-site training and support, as needed.
Qualifications & Experience…
• Bilingual - English and Italian
• Proven CX experience at a comparable B2C brand, preferably in media, entertainment, technology or hospitality and supporting streaming media or equivalent technologies at a Tier 3 level.
• Degree in technology, journalism, communications, marketing, or equivalent experience and/or demonstrated expertise.
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills - able to communicate effectively with junior to senior internal and external partners, breaking down technical concepts to present to non-technical audiences, with strong attention to detail for data, grammar, and spelling.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment, interacting with colleagues in multiple countries and time zones.
• Comfortable generating and analyzing both quantitative and qualitative data to diagnose customer feedback, team performance, and identify actionable improvement opportunities.
• Familiarity and comfort with consumer streaming devices such as Apple TV, Roku, iOS devices, Android TV/mobile, more.
• Excel in both customer service and technical support scenarios by demonstrating a strong sense of accountability and autonomy to effectively complete all required tasks while handling multiple priorities at a time with proper urgency. .
• Able to clearly define problems, analyze data, and recommend short-term workarounds, while simultaneously representing issues accurately to extended teams for resolution.
• Methodically investigate and resolve complex technical support issues, as reported by Customers and Partners.
• Able to consistently represent WBD CX in a professional manner.
• Experience working with Lean/Agile methodologies and JIRA/Youtrack/ServiceNow a plus
• Able to accommodate a dynamic business environment, including participation in an on-call rotation to support special events and content premiers occurring outside of regular business hours, weekends, and holidays.
Current Warner Bros. Discovery employees will be given preferential consideration for this opportunity. This position will be posted for five business days
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How We Get Things Done…
This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.
The Legal Bits…
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.
If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@wbd.com.
Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r7wxxk-216-73-216-227-42 in your application.