Product Support Specialist

Talentify; Portland (OR); Remote; USD 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision insurance

PTO 15 days

Volunteer time off

Education stipend $1,200/year

Books stipend $240/year

Charitable matching $1,200/year

Home office furnishing $400

Job summary

Membean is seeking a Product Support Specialist to help teachers troubleshoot technical issues and implement our vocabulary platform. You’ll build product expertise, communicate clearly, and support a growing EdTech team.

Working remotely, you’ll handle inquiries via email and Zoom, document solutions in FreshDesk, collaborate with Sales, Success, and Product, and contribute to maintenance of the knowledge base and webinars.

Qualifications

• Proven proficiency with web applications, productivity tools, and basic technical knowledge.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience troubleshooting technical product issues.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively across various channels (email, Slack, Zoom, phone).
• Comfort with changing priorities and remote work environment.

Responsibilities

• Respond promptly and professionally to support inquiries via email, phone, and Zoom.
• Troubleshoot technical issues and document causes and solutions for internal reference.
• Manage support inquiries through FreshDesk and collaborate with team members as needed.
• Assist in maintaining the knowledge base for accuracy and clarity.
• Collaborate with Sales, Success, and Product to ensure a seamless customer experience.
• Share feedback from teachers to drive product and process improvements.

Skills

Web applications

Analytical thinking

Troubleshooting

Effective communication

Remote collaboration

Teaching experience (tech)

SaaS customer support

Data analysis

Tools

FreshDesk

Zoom

Slack

CRM tools

Job description

Open — Remote Jobs has a posting for this job. Posted 17 Jul 2026.

About this job

Product Support Specialist Membean is an online vocabulary program that builds word consciousness. Membean's personalized and differentiated instruction that's automatically tailored to each student helps them achieve lasting outcomes by prioritizing higher order thinking over memorization. The program is used in over 40,000 English classrooms in over 50 countries. We're looking for a tech-savvy self-starter who thrives on a small team, excels at building relationships, and cares deeply about improving student learning outcomes. You'll join our team as a Product Support Specialist helping teachers troubleshoot technical issues and providing product guidance and implementation support. As you develop product expertise and settle into the position, you'll take on additional roles that may include maintaining our knowledge base, creating and delivering webinars, resolving complex support issues, tracking and reproducing issues for the Product team, and analyzing data to provide insights to customers and internal teams. You may be a great fit if you...

• Love solving problems.
• Are tech-savvy.
• Write clearly and concisely.
• Are empathetic, listen closely, and care deeply about helping teachers and students.
• Aren't afraid to ask questions or seek feedback.
• Enjoy digging into data to discover patterns and develop actionable insights.
• Have experience in education and/or EdTech.

Responsibilities

• Respond promptly and professionally to support inquiries, providing clear and concise explanations and solutions via email, phone, and Zoom.
• Troubleshoot technical issues and clearly document their cause and solution for internal reference.
• Manage support inquiries through FreshDesk, working in tandem with other agents or independently in the queue depending on ticket volume.
• Assist in the maintenance of the company's knowledge base, ensuring that it is up-to-date, accurate, and clear.
• Collaborate with other teams such as Sales, Success, and Product to provide a seamless customer experience.
• Share insights and feedback from teachers to relevant teams to drive product and process improvements.

Skills & Experience We understand that qualified candidates come from diverse backgrounds. We don't expect applicants to check every box, and we encourage you to apply if you're excited about the position and you think you'd be a good fit.

• Proven proficiency with web applications, productivity tools, and basic technical knowledge
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience troubleshooting technical product issues
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively across various platforms (e.g., email, Slack, Zoom, phone)
• Comfort with managing and adapting to changing priorities
• 2+ years of teaching experience in a technical field (e.g., computer science, STEM field)
• 2+ years in a customer facing SaaS role providing product support or managing customer relationships
• Ability to work independently, collaborate, and communicate effectively from a remote office

This is a remote, salaried position. Candidates based in Mountain, Arizona, or Pacific Time preferred. Some evening and weekend hours are required. Salary Range: $65,000 - $75,000 Other benefits:

• 100% Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance for employees; subsidized rates for the family.
• 15 days of PTO, 9 public holidays, and unlimited sick days.
• 3 days/year volunteering time off
• $1,200 annual stipend to take classes of your choice
• $240/year to purchase any books of your choice (We're a vocabulary company; reading is in our DNA)
• $1,200/year charitable matching
• $400 to furnish your home office every two years

PITCH and about the role:

Membean is an online language learning platform that provides e-learning services for vocabulary acquisition and language comprehension. Membean offers a wide range of interactive and adaptive learning tools designed to help students, educators, and lifelong learners master new words and enhance their language skills.

Membean primarily serves educational institutions, including schools and colleges, where it is used as a supplementary tool to strengthen language arts curricula and support vocabulary development across various subjects. It is also utilized by individual learners who are eager to improve their language proficiency and communication abilities.

Membean is an online vocabulary program that builds word consciousness. Membean's personalized and differentiated instruction that's automatically tailored to each student helps them achieve lasting outcomes by prioritizing higher order thinking over memorization. The program is used in over 40,000 English classrooms in over 50 countries.

We're looking for a tech-savvy self-starter who thrives on a small team, excels at building relationships, and cares deeply about improving student learning outcomes. You'll join our team as a Product Support Specialist helping teachers troubleshoot technical issues and providing product guidance and implementation support. As you develop product expertise and settle into the position, you'll take on additional roles that may include maintaining our knowledge base, creating and delivering webinars, resolving complex support issues, tracking and reproducing issues for the Product team, and analyzing data to provide insights to customers and internal teams.

in over 1700 schools- also has international - over 30 countries may be up to 50

What does a typical day look like? Main priority is to support ticket queueduring the busies season which is mid august to mid october

Answer questions for teachers anywhere from about the products range from help resetting password or implementation recommendations

Field questions from parents, students, and teachers

Helpful to know its not just customer support fielding low level questions and then facilitating- you really are doing the facilitating

Taking on other responsibilities outside of busy season- knowledge base maintenance and article creation, webinar creation and delivery, could help develop social media, auxiliary dutie, quality assurance and product testing

Training time? Onboarding is 2 weeks officially, but will have support 6+ months -proficient in level 1 tickets- how to know where to find answers 6 months level 2 questions 1 year webinar level 3 answers

Always has team support no matter what- 3 other team members always available

Most support is email- daily ticket volume is 100 (400-500 a week) split between 3 during the busy season tappers off 100-150 a week after october

1 or 2 calls prefers zoom but 90% email

Will this person have on-call hours?)- just your workday9-5 - once every 3 weeks has to check que 1 or 2 times a day- called support shifts check the que and every 3rd weekend checking once and ana

the JD says tech savvy--provide more detail here please, does this person need to know scripting languages, SQL or anything like that? No scripted language no development background but basic technical knowledge, browser vs network, cookies because taught developer tools. Technically literate

what is your management style? Casual but not frustratingly casual- get to know the team and play to strengths, how to receive feedback, learn the best ways to teach someone not a flat hierarchy. Always learning, ok to be wrong but lets figure it out.

Company Culture: Obsessed with the art of learning and from teachers

Likes to ask questions, highly communicative, a bunch of english teachers, friendly and casual

Membean culture is very supportive and growth focused - learning company so we understand how learning works top down and ground up

is the teaching exp a MUST HAVE? Nice to have but has strong edtech product support experience

Teaching is nice to have a technical acumen

Growth opportunities? Not a structured growth opportunity but because all of these different hats, ways to grow organically- Tricai started as

But product manager started as part time support and- very much promote internally

what metrics are used to gauge this person's success?

SQL a must have?No Structured query language n

Benefits?

• 100% Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance for employees; subsidized rates for the family.
• 15 days of PTO, 9 public holidays, and unlimited sick days.
• 3 days/year volunteering time off
• $1,200 annual stipend to take classes of your choice
• $240/year to purchase any books of your choice (We're a vocabulary company; reading is in our DNA)
• $1,200/year charitable matching
• $400 to furnish your home