Customer Care Specialist (Pacific Time Zone)
Position: Customer Care Specialist (Pacific Time Zone)
Department: Member Services / Support
Reports to: Customer Care Manager
Location: Remote/Full-Time/Work from Home
Compensation: $59,500 - $64,450 USD
Open through: May 1, 2026
Tessitura is a nonprofit technology company for arts and cultural organizations, dedicated to helping them thrive. We provide a unified CRM and commerce engine that brings together marketing, ticketing, fundraising, and customer data by enabling organizations to drive revenue, understand their audiences, and deliver more meaningful experiences.
Our platform powers 800+ organizations across ten countries, including world-renowned performing arts centers, museums, orchestras, and cultural institutions, as well as innovative and emerging organizations that are redefining how culture is experienced and accessed by their communities.
By equipping these organizations with better technology and insight, we help them expand their reach, strengthen relationships, and amplify the tremendous cultural and social value they deliver to their communities.
Job Summary:
The Customer Care Specialist position operates as part of the Tessitura Support team, within the broader Member Services group. The Customer Care Specialist will facilitate the relationship between Tessitura Network and their community by answering incoming calls and live chats, assessing needs, and resolving or assigning resources to ensure satisfaction in the overall engagement with the Tessitura Network staff, software and products. This contributes to our team mission of meeting Tessitura Network Members, partners, and staff on their terms, with a familiarity of their business and knowledge of the software's capabilities, maximizing the potential of each organization within the community.
Candidates should demonstrate working knowledge of the Tessitura application and/or Tessitura Hosting environment and must have strong public-facing customer service experience.
Core responsibilities:
- Provide professional customer service to Tessitura Network Members, partners, and staff in a timely and accurate manner.
- Answer incoming calls and live chats to the Customer Care Support Hotline.
- Through various channels, fulfill service requests, inquiries, and resolve reported issues related to Tessitura products and the hosting environment.
- Administer Tier 1 Support by isolating the scope of the reported issues, collecting any applicable materials and following defined pipelines to a resolution for Tessitura Network software and products.
- Facilitate training of Tessitura Members, partners, and staff when needed.
- Actively contribute to our technical knowledge base, online community, and other technical documentation.
- Perform administrative tasks in the hosting environment as needed for Tessitura Network members.
- Potential travel 1-2 times per year for conference or team meetings.
- Other duties as assigned.
- To drive outcomes that deepen the relationship between our members and the Tessitura company, Tessitura software and Tessitura community.
- As a term of employment, the post holder may be required to undertake such other duties and/or times of work as may be reasonably required to commensurate with the general level of responsibility within the Company.
- Experience with Tessitura software and product suite is required.
- Excellent call center or customer service experience.
- Excellent listening and communication skills with an empathetic manner.
- Proficiency in diffusing critical situations by calmly communicating with users to acknowledge, understand, manage, and resolve concerns.
- Self-starter with ability to work well independently and in groups efficiently in a virtual environment.
- Desire to focus on customer satisfaction and the customer experience, and a willingness to be its internal advocate of both.
- Exceptional analytical, critical thinking, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Capacity to explain complex concepts and situations to people with varying ranges of technical understanding.
- Ability to multi-task successfully while maintaining an agile mindset.