User Support Associate
Desmos
Customer Service
United States · Remote
Posted on Dec 11, 2024
Applications for this role will be accepted until Friday, January 3, 2025. Please note that Desmos Studio will be closed for two weeks during the winter holiday season. While we won’t respond to applicants during that time, we look forward to following up on all inquiries starting in early January.
Desmos Studio is on a mission to help everyone learn math, love math, and grow with math. We do this by building a free suite of math tools, now used by more than 75 million people around the world (and growing!). As a Public Benefit Corporation, we’re committed to keeping our core products freely available for individual use, not relying on external funding, never allowing 3rd party advertising, and never selling our users’ data. We’re able to stand behind those commitments on the back of being healthily profitable with a transparent business model: we license our software to other companies to incorporate into their products.
At the heart of our mission is meeting learners where they are and supporting them as they grow in their love for math. From people encountering our calculators for the first time, to power users making stunning math art projects, we want to help every member of our community to feel heard and supported in their journey with Desmos and mathematics. You’ll be a great fit for the User Support Associate role if you enjoy helping people, discovering their needs, meeting them where they are, and encouraging their growth. You’re passionate about creating resources tailored for beginners, staying at the forefront of professional development trends in math education, and ensuring that Desmos remains responsive to and informed by our loyal community of users. You find delight in streamlining operations and constantly reflect on how to provide top-notch (and delightful) support experiences for all individuals.
- Application Deadline
- January 03, 2025
- Department
- Support
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- Remote (USA)
- Workplace type
- Fully remote
- Compensation
- $75,000 - $85,000 / year
- Reporting To
- Director of Support and Engagement
What to Expect from the Role
On your first day, you should show up ready to:
- Share your love for math. You're comfortable with our suite of calculator tools and find delight in broadening one’s view of themselves in relation to math.
- Impress the Support Team with your organizational skills and passion for building systems, specifically around our community learning and engagement initiatives.
- Show off your creative skills. You can craft engaging GIFs, script out a video tutorial, and/or plan an innovative professional development session for our community members.
Within your first week, you’ll:
- Introduce yourself on Slack to your new coworkers!
- Gain access to our email ticketing system, Zendesk, and begin training on how to respond to user inquiries.
- Shadow a Support Team colleague as they navigate the various aspects we support within a user’s journey— from updating a Getting Started article in our Help Center to logging a feature request.
Within your first month, you’ll:
- Spend time getting to know our small, mighty team (there’s ~25 of us today!) and learn how we collaborate.
- Learn about our range of support resources, including help center articles, video tutorials, and user guides, used to support community learning about our math tools.
- Learn about our commitment to accessibility across our products and platform, including the motivation for, and requirements of, various accessibility standards.
- Start learning the framework, processes, and tools we currently use to communicate with and provide professional development to individuals, schools, and districts across the country.
Within your first 3 months, you’ll:
- Begin responding to support requests across platforms like email, social media, and our helpdesk to meet the needs of diverse users.
- Collaborate with team members to launch engagement campaigns, like our math art expo, that encourage users to create with our tools year-round.
- Contribute to engaging support materials that help Desmos Studio tools feel approachable to all users.
Within your first year, you’ll have:
- Built systems and processes to help the Support team effectively communicate and support users from a variety of different backgrounds.
- Successfully managed the logistics and operational components of our expanding engagement initiatives.
- Supported all aspects of community learning logistics, including updating content on our website and assisting facilitators in preparing presentation materials.
- Attended your first in-person company offsite and participated in brainstorming sessions around our one-year goals.
- Take a vacation to recharge. We do our best work when we’re happy and well-rested.
As part of the team, you’ll receive:
- Competitive compensation. Every full-time member of the team receives generous stock and salary compensation as well as a 401(k) match of up to 5% of annual salary.
- Great benefits. We offer medical, vision, dental, short-term disability, long term disability, and life insurance. We also offer Medical and Dependent Care FSAs, a minimum of 35 days off (including 25 full-company holidays), and more!
- Work-life balance. We’re a fully remote team, and we encourage time shifting. We value results over hours and sustainable, long-term success over short-term wins.
- Ownership and influence. As a member of a small team with few external stakeholders, each person here plays a major role in defining our policies, goals, culture, and benefits.
FAQs
Would you consider part-time applicants for this role?
We’re looking for a full-time User Support Associate at this time.
Where is Desmos Studio located?
We’re looking for a full-time User Support Associate at this time.
Where is Desmos Studio located?
Our team is fully remote and works across 4 time zones, and 13 states with 1 goal: to help every student learn math and love learning math.
What is the start date for this position?
We’re hoping for a spring start date for the role.
Will I provide user support for Desmos Classroom activities, the Activity Builder, and/or Desmos Curriculum?
This role will support products developed by Desmos Studio (i.e., Desmos Graphing, Scientific, Geometry, and 3D calculators). This role will not support products from any of our licensing partners, including Amplify’s Desmos Classroom. You can read more about the relationship between the two separate entities in this blog post.
About Desmos Studio PBC
Desmos Studio is a Public Benefit Corporation with a goal of helping everyone learn math, love math, and grow with math. We believe that everyone has an inner mathematician and that some people haven’t been given the opportunity, encouragement, or tools to discover theirs. So we prioritize equity and accessibility at every level of our work.
Our free suite of math tools, including our Graphing Calculator, is used annually by over 75 million people around the world. Those tools help people represent their ideas mathematically, connect different representations dynamically, make conjectures, and then develop entirely new ideas. They also result in some pretty spectacular art.
We partner with the world's most popular curricula and learning software, and with the majority of U.S. state-level assessments and digital college entrance exams.
Our Hiring Process
Stage 1:
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Stage 2:
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