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- Executive Assistant, AWS Strategic Accounts
- Chat Stylist Advisors
- Styling Assistant
- Technical Support Associate, Customer Support Associate
- HR Contact Center Associate
- Customer Service Representative – Account Recovery for Ring
- Data Associate, Alexa Data Services or Senior Associate, Data Entry
1. Executive Assistant, AWS Strategic Accounts
What you'll do:
- Manage multiple complex calendars and scheduling requirements
- Track and help drive completion of key deliverables and following up on outstanding items
- Update team organizational charts
- Manage group logistics
- Coordinate travel
- Participate in planning of events
- Work with other assistants throughout the AWS team and across the rest of the company
Qualifications:
- High school or equivalent diploma
- 2+ years of experience assisting at the executive level
- Experience with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Visio
Preferred Qualifications (Not Required):
- Bachelor’s degree
- Ability to think and plan ahead, delegate responsibilities appropriately and manage time effectively
- Ability to handle confidential information with discretion and deal with professionals inside and outside the company
- Experience with reconciling expenses, booking travel, and exercising sound judgement
- Exceptional written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to work in a highly ambiguous environment
Compensation/Benefits:
- You can expect to make around $25/hour according to Glassdoor
- Training budget
- Paid vacation
- Performance bonuses
- Access to coworking spaces
- Health insurance
- Technology stipend
- Physical and mental wellness programs
- Family leave
2. Chat Stylist Advisors
What you'll do:
- Candidates will chat and style with direct contact to customers via chat, video and new virtual platforms.
- As a chat stylist, you must be intuitive and creative with virtual product to create custom looks for customers whatever their needs.
- Candidates must be able to understand a broad customer base, be highly skilled with curation, trend and fit knowledge, and speak to the latest fashion.
- Utilize styling expertise, trainings, data and internal software programs to provide world class fashion recommendations to our customers.
- Offer expert styling advice that inspire our men’s or women’s customers through thoughtful curation of outfits.
- Build and retain a strong customer relationship by answering multiple concurrent inbound chats from customers with a positive, enthusiastic and conversational tone and solution-oriented mentality.
- Apply an exemplary customers service manner with strong communication and listening skills.
- Review customer profiles and preferences and reply to customer questions to achieve their personal style preferences, fit considerations, fashion trends and style.
- Strong written and verbal skill, provide comprehensive summaries and notes regarding customer interactions.
- Carry a high level of Ownership while prioritizing multiple tasks and deadlines, ensuring you lead with Customer Obsession.
- Proactively address customer concerns with confidence and provide transactional support for Customer Service team.
- Work independently and problem solve with minimal supervision.
- Leverage CRM data to review and exceed daily, weekly and monthly performance metrics.
- Comply with tasks assigned by manager, contributes and works well within virtual teams.
- Set achievable goals in line with current business goals.
Qualifications:
“An ideal candidate will have experience in chat, clienteling, sales, and have a real desire to make a customer’s shopping experience engaging and seamless.
Candidates must thrive in a start-up environment where they bring creativity, new perspectives and an ability to navigate an ambiguous and changing business.
Candidates should be highly motivated, independent and have a passion for customer service in styling and fashion.”
Compensation/Benefits:
Not much is mentioned on the job application page about benefits and compensation.
3. Styling Assistant
At this job, you'll be tasked with providing world class customer service to fashion customers.
Compensation/Benefits:
With this job, you can expect to make at least $15+/hour, but there is no mention of benefits.
It's also a part-time job, so there is a good chance you may not get that many benefits.
Required Qualifications:
- 1+ years of experience in customer service chat.
- 1+ year relevant fashion-based experience which can include retail sales/styling, personal shopping, online styling, editorial styling, etc.
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to clearly and concisely communicate in writing and speech, as well as listen to and interpret customer needs.
- A strong fashion knowledge base including an array of brands, designers, styles, and trends.
- History of staying-up-to-date and knowledgeable of current and future fashion trends though such mediums as social media, print magazines, blogs, online, etc.
- Excellent time-management, organizational, and prioritization skills.
- Flexibility with full-time schedule, including shift assignments on weekends/evenings.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Basic knowledge of MS Office Suite; familiarity with multiple web browsers, window navigation and instant messenger tools.
- A high-level of passion for fashion and style.
- Possess flexibility to quickly adapt to changing customer and business needs.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Fluent in Spanish.
- Other CS experience like calls and emails.
- Associate of Arts or Bachelor’s degree
- Keen eye for detail and high level of accuracy.
4. Technical Support Associate, Customer Support Associate
What You'll Do:
- Help a variety of Amazon customers by phone, e-mail and/or chat.
- Support customers through typing, phone, and computer skills by navigating the internet and website, multiple browsers, e-mail, social media, and instant messenger, or chat tools.
Compensation/Benefits:
- $15/hour
- Overtime pay at 1.5x base rate
- Employee Discount
- Resources for Living Program
Required Qualifications:
- Support a full-time working schedule of 40 hours up to 60 hours based on business needs that may change during the course of your seasonal assignment.
- High School Diploma or equivalent.
- Fluent English language proficiency required.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous customer service experience.
- Previous call center experience.
Technical Requirements:
- A minimum of 10 mbps download and 5 mbps upload speed from a reliable internet provider (Cable, DSL or Fiber Optic/FiOS providers only).
- Must be directly connected to router/modem via Ethernet cable. Cannot use a wireless connection.
- You will be shipped an Amazon owned laptop, headset, and Ethernet adaptor, and two security tokens to the address provided in your application.
- When applying, please be sure to verify that your mailing address in our system is an address where you can receive equipment to ensure that there are not delays in receiving your equipment. Make sure you add the apartment number (if any). PO Boxes are not supported and we must have a physical address for you to receive your equipment.
5. HR Contact Center Associate
What You'll Do:
- Serve as the first point of contact for leave, disability, and accommodation related questions
- Take ownership of employee contacts ensuring that each contact is accepted and resolved with a high degree of customer focus
- Resolve queries by referring to documentation such as frequently asked questions and standard operating procedures and escalate when these cannot be resolved
- Build customer trust through empathetic personalized conversations
- Receive queries via phone and log contacts into the shared service case management system
- Work closely with partner teams to keep up to date on process changes, partner for quick resolution of cross-functional issues, and consult to improve processes
Compensation/Benefits:
- around $18.50/hour
- See this page for more on benefits
Required Qualifications:
- 3+ years of contact center, customer service, human resources or equivalent experience.
- Proven ability using Microsoft Office skills and other computer or internet based programs.
- Demonstrated proficiency handling customer contacts, queries and resolutions
Preferred Qualifications:
- 4+ years of contact center or equivalent experience
- Previous experience working in a virtual environment
- Basic US legislation Leave of Absence and Accommodations knowledge.
- 1 year of Leave and/or Accommodations experience, to include: previous work in a leave of absence and/or disability claim management role, with experience using case management systems, reviewing cases for eligibility, determining the appropriate leave and/or disability pay benefits that apply to a specific situation, and establishing/executing a case management plan.
- Knowledge of US federal and state leave and disability laws
- Previous HR experience
- Proven ability to manage customer contacts in a fast-paced environment.
- Proven ability to adjust to constantly changing workloads.
- Proven ability to follow existing process with high attention to detail.
Technical Requirements:
Technical requirements were not mentioned for this job, but here are the usual requirements that Amazon has:
- A minimum of 10 mbps download and 5 mbps upload speed from a reliable internet provider (Cable, DSL or Fiber Optic/FiOS providers only).
- Must be directly connected to router/modem via Ethernet cable. Cannot use a wireless connection.
- You will be shipped an Amazon owned laptop, headset, and Ethernet adaptor, and two security tokens to the address provided in your application.
- When applying, please be sure to verify that your mailing address in our system is an address where you can receive equipment to ensure that there are not delays in receiving your equipment. Make sure you add the apartment number (if any). PO Boxes are not supported and we must have a physical address for you to receive your equipment.
6. Customer Service Representative – Account Recovery for Ring
Job details:
- Customer Service Representative – Account Recovery for Ring (owned by Amazon)
- Full-time hours
- $16/hour
- US-based
- chat, email, inbound and outbound call support
- Benefits: health, dental, vision coverage, paid time off, a 401k match program, etc.
Qualifications:
- High School or equivalent diploma
- Hardwired DSL, Cable, or Fiber Optic internet (Satellite or wireless internet connections are prohibited)
- Meet a minimum of 10 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload speed
- Provide a private work space that is free of any extraneous noises and distractions
- Provide a comfortable, ergonomically safe desk chair and desk that can accommodate a dual monitor set up
7. Data Associate, Alexa Data Services | Senior Associate, Data Entry
What they usually require:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Experience with Windows, Microsoft Office Suite
- 40 WPM (words per minute) typing speed with 90% or greater accuracy
- Proficiency in English (written and verbal)
Pay:
Usually, these jobs pay between $15 and $18 per hour. It can't be less than $15 per hour, because Amazon has a company policy where every job pays at least that much.
What you would do:
Here's a snapshot of the tasks you would do for the Senior Associate, Data Entry position:
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