Customer Relations Specialist

EF Education First; Cambridge (MA); Remote; USD 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth trainings

Vacation & holidays

Travel opportunities

401(k) match

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Wellness benefits

Employee events

EF product discounts

Job summary

EF Education First Ltd. (Cultural Care Au Pair) is hiring a Customer Relations Specialist for their remote team. You will support host families and au pairs with conflict resolution, coaching, and guidance to help them succeed in the program.

Responsibilities include handling up to twelve rematch cases weekly, addressing 20–30 support cases, and proactive outreach. Strong communication and problem-solving skills required; salary starts at $55,000 with room for growth based on experience.

Qualifications

• 2–3 years in a customer service role.
• Demonstrated ability to manage high volumes of calls, emails, and daily tasks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Problem solving and conflict resolution skills.

Responsibilities

• Meet service level agreements including response times and documentation.
• Manage workload of up to twelve rematch cases end to end per week.
• Address 20–30 program support cases weekly with timely assistance.
• Handle 10–20 proactive support cases weekly with a proactive approach.
• Complete chat/phone shifts weekly to ensure timely responses.
• Maintain communication with previously supported customers for ongoing guidance.
• Collaborate with regional director department to align strategies and initiatives.

Skills

Customer service

Communication

Conflict resolution

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

Customer Relations Specialist

Cultural Care Au Pair

Location: Remote

The Customer Relations team is a vital department within our cultural exchange program, providing our host families and au pairs with exceptional customer support and guidance during some of their most challenging times. With a heavy emphasis on program experience, conflict resolution and mediation, the department supports program participants when they decide to end their current hosting or au pair term and effectively coaches both parties to ensure future success on the program when possible.

This role is a natural relationship builder and great problem solver. Working mostly through phone, text, and email communication, you support our host families and au pairs who are experiencing conflict with one another; actively listening, empathizing, building trust, problem solving and coaching them through resolution. You will work in collaboration with your director, the department customer service coach and our experienced team of Local Representatives to ensure our host families and au pairs are provided with exceptional customer support and care.

Responsibilities:

• Meeting service level agreements, including response times, incident documentation, and escalating cases appropriately.
• Manage a workload of up to twelve rematch cases end to end per week, ensuring each case is addressed promptly and effectively through match or refund.
• Address 20 -30 program support cases weekly, providing timely assistance and solutions to program participants.
• Managing complex situations with confidence, ensuring consistency and adherence to program guidelines and best practices while acting as a resource for customers as well as colleagues.
• Handle 10-20 au pair and host family proactive support cases weekly, demonstrating a proactive approach to addressing potential issues before they escalated.
• Complete chat/phone shifts weekly to ensure a timely response to our customers and meet their needs, fostering proactive engagement and support.
• Maintain communication with customers you have previously supported, providing reassurance and guidance to participants throughout their program year.
• Collaborate with the regional director department to align strategies and initiatives, ensuring seamless operations and customer satisfaction.

You are:

• Strong communicator: effectively communicate with customers and colleagues. This includes but is not limited to: mediation and conflict resolution between a host family and au pair, coaching and guiding our program participants towards future success, and empathetically communicating difficult messaging/next steps to customers.
• Strategic: able to organize daily responsibilities to be efficient and deliberate in accomplishing goals, managing time and competing priorities with ease.
• Resilient: a natural ability to have a challenging conversation, navigate it with empathy, and move on to the next priority with the same energy.
• Problem solver: able to actively listen and assess many opinions and experiences objectively to create the best solution, involving appropriate parties at each step.
• High sense of responsibility: motivated to have full ownership over assigned case load, seeing a situation through to resolution while thoroughly documenting all customer correspondence.
• Flexible: can pivot and adapt quickly to new processes to meet company and customer needs, and apply learnings from one situation to the next.
• Collaborative: works effectively with internal departments to create one cohesive, exceptional customer experience.

Requirements:

• 2-3 years of experience in a customer service role.
• Proven ability to efficiently manage high volumes of calls, emails, and daily responsibilities.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage proactive support cases, ensuring timely resolution and customer satisfaction.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Problem solving and conflict resolution skills.
• Strong attention to detail and follow through.
• A natural motivator and connector, bringing passion and enthusiasm to a team.

Why you'll love working here: Perks, Benefits, and more!

This is the most fun, high caliber place you'll ever work. Ask any employee why they love EF (whether they've been here 10 minutes or 10 years) and they'll probably tell you the same thing: it's the people. When you work at EF, you join a purpose-driven, international and energetic community that thrives on continuous learning, fearless innovation and mutual support.

In addition, you can expect:

• Commitment to professional growth: robust monthly calendar of trainings and workshops
• Four weeks paid vacation your first year, ten paid holidays, and two floating holidays
• Exciting business travel opportunities
• 25% company match on your 401(k) contributions
• Market-leading medical, dental and vision coverage, along with options for life and disability insurance, accident and hospital insurance, legal and pet insurance
• Dependent care, healthcare and commuter Flex Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• Access to fertility care and family-building support
• Wellness benefits including a yearly fitness reimbursement
• Frequent social and learning events, including access to our employee-run resource groups
• Robust Employee Assistance Program
• Tenure-based sabbatical eligibility
• EF Product Discounts (discounts on travel, international language schools, Au Pair program and more)
• Discounts at local venues and businesses
• Compensation for this role starts at $55,000 with an opportunity for higher salary based on experience.

ABOUT US

Some companies are in the business of banking. Others are in the business of shoes. Or sports. Or soft drinks. At EF, we're in a different kind of business. One that's a little less tangible, and a lot more important. Because our business, what we make, makes everything else possible. We're in the business of understanding. Between people. Between cultures.

For over half a century we've been the leader in international educational programs and experiences designed to foster such understanding. Through language, cultural exchange, academic studies, and educational travel, we create the kinds of immersive experiences that challenge biases, open minds, and pave the way for a more understanding world.

You'll find our offices and schools located in some of the world's greatest cities, and filled with smart, driven people (over 50,000 of us) who push each other to be better every day. But it's what we do together - building greater understanding, breaking down barriers, and creating a better world - that makes all the difference.

Founded in 1965 in Sweden, EF (Education First) is a global association of education companies that share a common mission of opening the world through education. EF has been recognized on Forbes 2025 and 2024 World’s Best Employers and 2024 Top Companies for Women lists, Fast Company’s 2025 Next Big Things In Tech, and was a 2024 App Store Award winner in Cultural Impact.

ABOUT THE TEAM

At Cultural Care Au Pair, we believe that cultural exchange has the power to make the world a more welcoming, understanding, and open place. As the largest and most experienced au pair organization in the world, we build global families by bringing together international visitors with American hosts-providing meaningful childcare for families, an unforgettable year in America for au pairs, and a culturally enriching experience for all. If you're ready to expand your own horizons we invite you to be a part of our global team of problem-solvers, relationship-builders, and innovators. Join us as we continue to bring the world a little bit closer together, one family at a time.

Cultural Care Au Pair is associated with EF (Education First), the world leader in international education. At EF we believe that the world is better when people try to understand one another. Since 1965, we have brought millions of people to see new places, experience new cultures, and learn new things about the world and themselves. Our culturally immersive education programs-focused on language, travel, cultural exchange, and academics-create students of the world, and turn dreams into international opportunities.

An equal opportunity employer, Cultural Care Au Pair is committed to inclusion and belonging across race, ethnicity, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, age, religion, ability, parental status, experience and everything else that makes you, well...you.

Learn more about Cultural Care Au Pair: https://www.culturalcare.com/

Remote:

Yes