AI Platform Support Specialist

Role Details

Location:

South Africa Work Arrangement:
Remote Type of Support: AI Support (Triage, Investigate, and Resolve Escalations), Optimize Customer Facing AI Systems Contract Duration:
Full-Time, Permanent Training

Schedule:

Open to shifting schedules (subject to business requirements)

Work Schedule:

Open to shifting schedules (subject to business requirements) Expected

Start Date:

Immediately About Us Crescendo represents peak CX performance in the AI era.

We combine world-class outsourcing expertise with innovative technology to set a new standard in CX and operations, delivering results that scale and support that never sleeps.

More than that, Crescendo is about people.

We don’t just connect talent with opportunity—we create a place where careers grow, ideas thrive, and people are empowered to make an impact.

Join us at Crescendo, and let’s build the future of customer experience together.

The Role Crescendo is hiring an AI Platform Support Specialist to own the reliability and continuous optimisation of our customer facing AI systems that support Crescendo’s partners.

This role sits at the center of Crescendo’s AI operations.

You will act as the control layer between production AI systems, partner environments, and internal teams, managing escalations, diagnosing platform and integration issues, and implementing optimisation opportunities identified by Crescendo’s AI Quality, Operations, and Partner teams.

Over time, this role will evolve into owning a portfolio of partner AI assistants, with accountability for ongoing performance, reliability, and continuous improvement across assigned partner environments.

You will work across live production environments to ensure Crescendo’s AI platform is stable, accurate, and continuously improving at scale.

This is not a traditional support role.

You will be responsible for diagnosing systemic AI and platform issues, coordinating resolution with Product and Engineering teams, and introducing safeguards that protect partner customer experience as the platform evolves.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Operations, and Partner teams to ensure Crescendo’s AI systems remain accurate, stable, and trustworthy at scale.

What You'll Do:
Own AI Reliability, Optimisation and Health Monitor production AI systems and partner environments to ensure stable, high quality performance Act as the first response layer for CX impacting AI incidents and escalations Own triage, investigation, and resolution of AI escalations Perform root cause analysis across AI configuration, workflows, routing logic, and platform behavior Diagnose platform integration and configuration issues with support CRMs such as Zendesk, Gorgias, and Salesforce Service Cloud Improve AI accuracy and consistency through behavior tuning and configuration updates Implement optimisation opportunities identified by Crescendo’s AI Quality, Operations, and Partner teams Review, validate, and implement optimisation initiatives related to AI behavior, routing, workflows, and integrations Introduce safeguards and validation steps to prevent recurring failures and improve long term reliability Periodically perform AI health checks across partner environments to ensure systems are aligned to evolving AI capabilities and best practices Identify patterns in AI failure modes and drive long term reliability improvements Act as the Escalation Interface Layer Translate CX impacting AI issues into clear engineering and product work Provide detailed documentation, root cause summaries, and remediation recommendations Partner with Product and Engineering to resolve systemic platform issues Steward Partner AI Performance Manage a portfolio of partner AI assistants over time, maintaining accountability for performance, stability, and continuous improvement Identify optimisation opportunities specific to partner environments and drive improvement initiatives Support long term partner success through proactive AI performance stewardship Shape the Evolution of AI Support Contribute directly to the evolution of Crescendo’s AI Support platform and operating model Identify recurring issues and…