About the opportunity:

Our mission is to not only provide our customers with the content and tools needed to complete their projects but empower them to use those products in seamless and inventive ways for success. To accomplish our goals, we equip our Customer Care teams with award-winning customer service from our Customer Care Advocates.

We are now accepting applications for enthusiastic and passionate Customer Care Advocates in our Shutterstock New York City office! 

Reporting directly to a Customer Care Manager, you will communicate via phone, email, and/or live chat while collaborating with your team members across the globe in Berlin and Singapore! You can expect to answer product questions, troubleshoot user issues, develop relationships with the customers, and handle any other miscellaneous care needs with customers who prefer to speak in Portuguese or English. 

Important notes about this opening:

• This role has a specified shift: Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM (Eastern Standard time)
• This is a temporary position that will last from May 7, 2018, to September 7, 2018.
• We will only be contacting applicants who are fluent or native level in English and Portuguese.

As a Customer Care Advocate: 

You can expect to...

• Interact with existing and prospective customers via inbound phone calls to provide product and package information and account assistance
• Reply to email, live chat, and social media inquiries about products and services
• Listen to the customer’s needs, projects and goals to recommend the best products, and send as referrals to the appropriate sales team
• Achieve productivity standards and goals while maintaining the highest level of courteous and professional customer care
• Record customer interactions, details of inquiries, complaints, or comments, as well as the actions taken
• Use Salesforce to track, gather information, and/or troubleshoot customer issues
• Refer unresolved customer issues to designated Customer Care Manager for resolution

You need... 

• To be fluent (both written and oral) in English and Portuguese
• 1-2 years of customer service, solving complex issues, troubleshooting, and problem resolution; preferably within e-commerce, media, or software organizations.
• Exceptional writing abilities to provide clear and empathetic customer support through email and live chat
• Understanding of Photoshop and digital imaging manipulation techniques
• Some knowledge of stock photography licensing terms (ie, royalty free versus rights managed)
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience, not required, but preferred.

You describe yourself as...

• Passionate about the customer and the service you provide to them
• Able to thrive within and welcome organizational change
• Highly organized and detail oriented to manage multiple tasks at once
• Driven to complete tasks swiftly and thoroughly 

Interested in becoming the Customer Care Advocate?

If you meet the profile outlined above, fill out and submit the application below!

Due to the volume of resumes we receive, only those candidates selected for interviews will be personally contacted. We kindly ask that you do not submit multiple applications, as this action does not increase your chances for selection and will instead delay the interview process. Be sure to verify that your contact information is correct before submitting.

Shutterstock is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We accept all applicants regardless of race, religion, sex, age, disability, or Veteran status. 

About Shutterstock, Inc.

Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), directly and through its group subsidiaries, is a leading global provider of high-quality licensed photographs, vectors, illustrations, videos and music to businesses, marketing agencies and media organizations around the world. Working with its growing community of over 350,000 contributors, Shutterstock adds hundreds of thousands of images each week, and currently has more than 180 million images and more than 9 million video clips available.

Headquartered in New York City, Shutterstock has offices around the world and customers in more than 150 countries. The company also owns Bigstock, a value-oriented stock media agency; Shutterstock Custom, a custom content creation platform, Offset, a high-end image collection; PremiumBeat a curated royalty-free music library; and Rex Features, a premier source of editorial images for the world's media.

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