German Player Support Advocate

Title: Player Support Advocate
Location: Remote | Working From Home in the UK, Philippines, Poland, Brazil, Romania, or Portugal
Hours: Sunday - Thursday between 13:30 - 22:00 UK Hours, Friday and Saturday OFF.
Familiarisation/Training: Fully Paid

Candidates with a strong passion for games, customer service, technical support, languages, linguistics, translation, localization, Player Support, QA, LQA, or those wanting to gain entry into a fascinating and growing industry, are invited to apply!

As one of our Player Support Advocates, you will be an ambassador for our brand and your role will be to provide world-class support to gamers and loyal customers. You should be passionate about customer service, confidently calm, technically minded, and have a pro-active and positive "can do" attitude. Whilst working with a global operation across multiple languages, your goal will be to make the customer journey seamless and positive. You are provided with full training and ongoing support with the opportunity to progress through levels to become either a Tier 2 Advocate, Language Specialist, Coach, Team Manager, Subject Matter Expert, or even a Game Master! You would be communicating in the language you are applying for, and English.

What you’ll be doing:

• Ensuring customers' queries are answered with the aim of a first-time resolution and ensuring that all responses are provided with excellent attention to detail, care, and professionalism.
• Ensuring queries are responded to within our agreed response times and that all customer communications are dealt with to provide solutions as a priority whilst protecting confidentiality.
• Resolving all technical issues raised by customers, particularly via live chat, by carrying out fault finding analysis and offering appropriate solutions that resolve the customers issue. Although the majority of the role is based on non-voice communications, you will be trained and expected to communicate with customers via telephone (call backs for example).
• You will communicate effectively while working within a dynamic team structure with individual and shared team objectives, as it is your responsibility as a team member to ensure the best customer care experience is given to all customers.
• Maintaining a world class, dedicated service, focused on exceptional responses and excellent, outstanding quality.
• Working with your colleagues across the wider global customer community to identify any trends in any customer queries.
• Although you may be working anywhere in the World, all candidates will generally work UK hours and shift patterns.

Requirements

What we’re looking for:

• Fluency in the language you are applying for & English, particularly reading & writing.
• Excellent attention to detail, strong communication skills, and knowledge of Computers.
• Self-motivated, a proactive attitude with the ability to work productively and collaboratively within a multilingual team.
• A logical, methodical approach with good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent observation and attention to detail skills with patience, perseverance, and good concentration.
• Experience in playing consoles and or PC gaming advantageous.
• Be comfortable discussing technical faults/issues relating to game consoles/PCs.
• Experience of someone IT literate, with a tech-savvy mind, or coming from a Customer Service, Technical IT /PC support background is advantageous, although we provide excellent training and on-going support.
• Our Advocates must be able to multitask, be comfortable taking multiple chats, emails and calls per hour, ensuring an amazing-accurate service is provided 100% of the time.
• All candidates should possess a desire to help, support and provide the best customer experience possible.

PC requirements:

• An internet speed minimum of 10 Mb/s download and 1.7 Mb/s upload internationally.
• A minimum of 4 GB RAM memory.
• Your computer should run at least a 64-bit version of Windows 10 or newer or a recently released version of macOS.
• An i5 processor (2,4 GHz or faster), or better/ similar, max. 3 years old.
• A screen with at least a 1080p Full HD display. External monitors are acceptable.
• A (smart)phone usable for two-factor authentication that runs at least:
• Android 9 or newer.
• Apple iOS 15 or newer.
• Your own Webcam, Headset and Laptop/PC.
• Your own separate and private working area with a comfortable table and chair.

Applicants Requirements:

• Candidates living in the UK, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Portugal or Brazil must have the Right To Work in that Country (Citizenship, valid working VISA or permit) and will usually be offered a PTW Employee Employment Contract.
• All other candidates must have an Upwork profile or if successful, create an Upwork account. We will help.
• All candidates must adhere to confidentiality and security protocols, at all times.
• All candidates will be required to pass an online language and skills test, including a final competency based live interview.
• All applications should submit their CV in English.

Training

• All candidates whether full or part time will complete a mandatory online paid familiarisation course to ensure you have the necessary skills and knowledge to do your role, running Monday to Friday 0900-1730 UK. Thereafter you will work on your given shift pattern and have access to continued support. All working hours are UK based.

Benefits

What we offer:

• You will be working for the pre-eminent global provider of specialist services to the games industry and provided with full training and the opportunity to work on some of the biggest game clients, titles, projects, and tech in the world.
• Attractive remuneration, holidays, regular team competitions with great prizes; and inclusion into an extensive social calendar. Our environments thrive with collaborative team-work with people from all around the world, different nationalities, and languages.
• A supportive community inclusive of LGBTQ+, and any age, ethnicity, religion, or disability. We care about the wellbeing of our employees and have a dedicated employee wellbeing programme. We empower our people and offer regular progression opportunities to ensure our employees flourish.
• Remote/Homeworking with flexible working schedules, a fun environment, and a relaxing culture, including the opportunity to work with the leading technology and creative minds in the world.
• Learn as you work and be part of something real that changes the face of gaming - forever
• Working with a global multi-lingual workforce with superb training and promotion and progression opportunities.

Who we are:

PTW is a boutique games services company that provides custom solutions worldwide. We believe in accelerating innovation across the globe. We started more than 25 years ago and since then, have grown exponentially year-on-year to who we are today. Our history is in gaming, and we are still gamers at heart. In our time within the games industry, we have worked on over 1,500 titles across all genres and all platforms.

We have grown rapidly over the past few years and now have 16 sites spanning the globe. The PTW umbrella of companies includes SIDE, 1518, OR Esports, and Entalize. SIDE works at the cutting edge of interactive media as a provider of audio services for the global entertainment market. 1518 is known industry wide for world-class art and is also our in-house game and product development studio.

Basically, anywhere in the world, any platform, any genre, we can help come up with a custom solution to make games run better, get to market faster, and enhance the lives of more players.

In summary, we connect and bring fun to the world.

Welcome to PTW!

Established in 1994, we have over 20 years of experience in providing Quality Assurance, Engineering, Voice & Audio Production, Localization, Translation, and Customer Support services. Our linguistic services cover over 40 of the world’s languages.

Originally founded in Japan, we’ve expanded throughout the world and our global footprint now consists of over 35+ studios spanning 11 countries on 3 continents. With our corporate headquarters in San Francisco, USA, and Nagoya, Japan, we have studios in the UK, US, Canada, Romania, Japan, India, Korea, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Singapore.

Our people make our company special. We’re brilliant, because our people shine. We’re passionate, because our people love what they do. And we’re innovative, because our people always want to do things better. We’d love you to join us. So why not get in touch?

We’re people focused

We support our people, and create strong relationships founded on mutual respect.

We’re client committed

Our main aim is to advance our clients’ businesses, and enhance their customers’ satisfaction.

We’re innovative

We create unique solutions that are brimming with ideas, backed up by effective problem solving for even the most challenging requirements.

http://www.ptw.com

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