Customer Support Specialist

About Perlego

Perlego is a digital learning platform on a mission to make education accessible and affordable. We give students and lifelong learners unlimited access to hundreds of thousands of academic and professional books through a single subscription. Our Customer Experience team is at the heart of that mission, ensuring every learner who reaches out receives fast, empathetic, and knowledgeable support.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Customer Support Specialist to join our small CX team as the frontline anchor for customer interactions. This is a hands-on role: you’ll be the first voice our customers hear and the person who keeps day-to-day operations running smoothly.

You’ll work 40 hours a week with a mandatory core window of 2:00–6:00 pm GMT, Monday to Friday. We are open to agreeing alternative hours with the successful candidate, as long as those core hours are covered.

What You’ll Do:

Customer Inbox

• Respond to the majority of new customer enquiries via chat and email, delivering fast, friendly, and accurate support
• Flag emerging trends, edge cases, and potential escalations to the wider CX team
• Help maintain first-response-time targets: under 30 minutes for chat and under 12 hours for email
  

Technical Issue Validation

• Identify, validate, and document technical issues reported by customers
• Log confirmed bugs with clear reproduction steps and pass them to the product and engineering team
• Track and report on tech issue volume and resolution status
  

Billing & Account Operations

• Action change-billing-cycle requests and report on volume and turnaround time
• Process customer invoice and receipt requests efficiently, reporting on volume
  

Review Responses

• Respond to customer reviews across Trustpilot, Google Play, and the Apple App Store
• Represent the Perlego brand voice with empathy, professionalism, and a genuine desire to resolve issues
  

Team Contributions

• Support spam inbox management by actioning spam queue items
• Peer-review Help Centre articles before publication to ensure accuracy and clarity
• Contribute to and maintain the CX Playbook, owning pages aligned to your areas of expertise
• Contribute to Team discussions and workshops

Why This Role Works for You

• Hybrid working, 1 required in office day per week
• A supportive team of three that values sustainable pace, cross-training, and open communication about workload
• Real responsibility from day one — this is not a box-ticking role; you’ll be the primary voice of Perlego for thousands of learners
• Clear KPIs so you always know what success looks like and can manage your time accordingly
• Growth opportunities in customer experience, operations, and education technology