Dedicated Service Advisor

About Gusto

Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k) s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 400,000 businesses nationwide.

Our mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life, and it starts right here t’s why we’re committed to building a collaborative and inclusive workplace, both physically and virtually. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy.

As a Dedicated Service Advisor, you will act as the single point of contact for all support inquiries, enhancing their user experience and serving as a subject matter expert for Gusto’s core products. You will guide customers through our newest product features, provide proactive customer education and support, partner cross-functionally, move quickly to strategize and creatively solve problems, act as their advocate internally to influence our product decisions and roadmap, and holistically support the customer/Gusto partnership.

You’ll address and solve real problems and deliver an exceptional customer experience to some of our most valued companies to build trust and loyalty to Gusto for the book of business.

The Dedicated Service team is a segment of our Care team dedicated to building and expanding relationships with our high-value customers. The team manages an assigned book of customers (~150 customers), serving as product experts, and providing trusted and efficient service.

• Own the customer journey by building trust, rapport, and partnership with your book of business through inbound and outbound phone, email, and Zoom interactions.
• Act as a dedicated advisor, building trust in the support you provide to contain most customer interactions from your dedicated customers.
• Provide passionate, opinionated, consistent, expert, reliable support as a dedicated point of contact for payroll and benefits inquiries
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• Proactively connect with customers to build a deep understanding of their business, your support model, and their preferred connection style.
• Identify churn risk and quickly act to deliver solutions to mitigate the risk of churn, using your product knowledge and unique understanding of each individual customer.
• Build and maintain relationships built on trust and collaboration with admins to better understand and anticipate their needs.
• Partner with your customers and cross-functionally to unblock points of friction, proactively address potential concerns, and build an understanding of individual team needs and processes.
• Think creatively, pivot quickly, live in ambiguity, and collaborate strategically. You will be required to expand your critical thinking skills and creatively problem-solve across all areas of the business, with an understanding of a variety of stakeholders and needs.
• Display strong product knowledge, including a deep understanding of the competitive landscape to protect against customer churn.
• Use your expertise to plan and build solutions for your customers to drive product adoption, and satisfaction, including consulting on products and service solutions.
• Becomes a strategic player to promote customer satisfaction and client retention.

• 6+ years of customer experience with 1+ years of full-time experience in Payroll,
  and 2+ years of account management.
• Proven ability to proactively and reactively support customers, driving their success, happiness, and loyalty through expert guidance and creative problem-solving.
• Ability to synthesize and communicate complex subjects clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing, with customers and internal partners.
• Experience with Salesforce, Zoom, Google Suite, Google Calendar, Gmail, and Chili Piper.
• Excels in balancing inbound calls, scheduled meetings, and email inquiries while managing and prioritizing multiple high-priority resolutions effectively.
• Strength in providing effective, expert, and creative resolutions for customers with minimal support, demonstrating agility and…