Keen

Senior Customer Support Advocate

Keen  •  Cape Town, ZA (Onsite)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

About Keen

At Keen, we don't just deliver services we embed ourselves into the heart of our clients' businesses. From digital marketing and creative to customer experience, we craft bold, high-performance digital experiences for global brands.

Keen helps some of the most exciting U.S. and international brands scale smarter by embedding expert teams that drive results across marketing, creative, customer experience, and sales.

We're not a legacy BPO. We're a partner in growth and that's where you come in.

About the Role

We're looking for an experienced Senior Customer Support Advocate to join our team supporting a leading global e-commerce brand. This role is ideal for someone who is passionate about delivering exceptional customer experiences while helping develop and elevate the performance of others through coaching, mentoring, and training.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in high-pressure environments, learns quickly, and brings a calm, solution-oriented mindset to every interaction. You'll be joining an in office, global, and fast-moving team that values ownership, empathy, and communication.

What You’ll Do

  • Deliver exceptional customer support across email, live chat, and phone channels.
  • Assist customers with order enquiries, deliveries, returns, refunds, exchanges, payments, account management, and general product enquiries.
  • Resolve complex customer issues with professionalism, empathy, and a customer-first approach.
  • Handle escalated customer cases, ensuring timely and satisfactory resolutions.
  • Meet and exceed key performance metrics, including quality, productivity, customer satisfaction (CSAT), and service level agreements (SLAs).
  • Accurately document customer interactions and maintain detailed case records.
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams to resolve customer issues and improve the overall customer experience.
  • Identify recurring customer trends and recommend improvements to processes and workflows.
  • Act as a subject matter expert by providing day-to-day guidance and support to team members.
  • Deliver onboarding and refresher training sessions to new and existing Customer Support Advocates.
  • Coach and mentor team members, providing constructive feedback and sharing best practices to improve performance and service quality.
  • Contribute to the development and maintenance of training materials, knowledge base articles, and internal documentation.

Requirements

What We’re Looking For

  • Minimum of 3 years' experience in a customer support, customer service, or customer experience role.
  • Previous experience supporting customers within an e-commerce, retail, online marketplace, or consumer brand environment would be advantageous
  • Must have previous experience as a Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst, Subject Matter Expert (SME), Senior Customer Support Advocate, Team Lead, or in a similar leadership role.
  • Demonstrated experience facilitating training, coaching, mentoring, or onboarding customer support teams.
  • Excellent written and verbal English communication skills (C1 level or higher).
  • Strong customer service, problem-solving, and conflict-resolution skills.
  • Ability to work independently while managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong attention to detail with excellent organisational and time management skills.
  • Comfortable supporting customers across email, live chat, and phone
  • Must be a fast and accurate typist with a minimum typing speed of 40 words per minute (WPM).
  • Proficient with CRM systems and customer support tools.
  • Comfortable working evening and overnight shifts supporting U.S.-based customers.
  • Self-starter who actively seeks solutions and takes ownership of their work
  • Able to receive feedback constructively and adapt quickly

Schedule & Location

  • Keen supports clients around the world and operates in a 24/7/365 environment Team members are scheduled across a variety of shifts to ensure continuous support, so flexibility to work different shift patterns is essential.
  • This is a full-time, office-based role located in Salt River.
  • Monthly Transport Allowance or company-provided transport for qualifying shifts.

Benefits

Why Join Keen?

Join a collaborative, high-performing team where your growth is a priority. We invest in our people through o ngoing learning, career development, an annual Professional Development Budget, and Birthday Leave to celebrate your special day.

Compensation

  • Competitive Base Salary
  • Medical Allowance
  • Attendance & Timeliness Bonus
  • Transport Allowance
  • Monthly Performance Bonus

Career Growth: High-performing team members have opportunities to progress into SME, Team Lead, QA, Operations, or Technical Support roles.

Global Support Environment

As we support clients across different time zones, Keen operates in a 24/7/365 environment. Team members should be comfortable working flexible schedules to support our clients and deliver an exceptional customer experience.

Keen

About Keen

Most businesses don’t fail because the idea was weak. They fail because the team behind it was under-supported, fragmented or stuck in constant firefighting.

Keen fixes that.

We place high-performing, critical thinkers inside your business so you can finally work with the clarity, calm and momentum you’ve been missing. Our talent integrates into your Slack, your systems and your daily workflow. They think with you. They make decisions faster. They solve problems before they escalate. They work with context, ownership and accountability that outsourced teams simply cannot match.

Agencies deliver outputs.

Freelancers deliver tasks.

Keen delivers capability.

We build the kind of team founders wish they had from day one. A team that improves CX, strengthens creative, drives performance and protects the customer experience at every touchpoint.

This is not outsourcing.

This is integration.

This is the future of how modern businesses grow.

What We Do

• Place embedded talent across Creative, CX, Marketing and Operations

• Build integrated workflows that eliminate silos

• Strengthen systems and increase operational clarity

• Bring critical thinking into every part of the customer journey

• Remove friction so teams move faster with confidence

Why It Works

Our people think. They don’t follow scripts or rely on rigid process. They solve problems, spot patterns and close loops that used to stay open for months. They help founders breathe again.

Modern teams need integration, not outsourcing.

Keen builds the people who make that possible.

Industry
Consulting & Advisory
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Los Angeles, CA
Year Founded
2024
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