Escalation Specialist

Overview

Position: Support Escalation Specialist (UK Based)

Department: Support

Reports to: Support Manager, EU

Location: UK based / Full-time / Remote

Compensation: £46,900-£50,000 GBP

Open through: 23 February 2026

Tessitura is a non-profit company dedicated to helping arts and cultural organizations thrive. CRM lies at the heart of our mission and our technology platform. With Tessitura in their toolkit, organizations can achieve their goals with ease. The Tessitura community includes over 800 cultural institutions in ten countries. Our staff provide 24/7 support and offer guidance to grow revenue and build lifelong engagement.

Job Summary: The Support Escalation Team is a part of the greater Support team, responsible for member-facing technical support and specialization on protracted support cases for member organizations. The Support Escalation Team works together to provide the highest level of customer service to our members, disseminating knowledge to find resolutions for issues. The ideal candidate will have strong troubleshooting skills and be able to communicate with a broad group of stakeholders.

• Quality and Efficient Service - Assisting members with their questions and issues in a helpful, timely, and respectful manner.
• Provide excellent customer service, through written and verbal communications to both Tessitura members and Tessitura staff.
• Serve as the Tessitura Network Software & Products subject matter expert and lead diagnostic and troubleshooting efforts on complex and protracted cases.
• Takes ownership of member-facing support tickets and guides them through to resolution, including necessary database updates and diagnostics as needed.
• Actively prepare for and monitor ticketing on-sales.
• Provides critical issue support during regular desk shifts both during the business week as well as scheduled weekend on-call shifts.

• Collaboration - Working together across the company with respect and integrity.
• Collaborating cross-team with your support colleagues to resolve member issues.
• Attends group work every week with Support Escalation colleagues.
• Escalates tickets to Development/Product Owners/Business Analysts as needed.
• Identify and suggest corrections for documentation issues in collaboration with Learning team.
• Investigate and escalate defects for all Tessitura Network Software and Products.

• Knowledge - Constantly work towards improving our knowledge base and skills across the Support team.
• Regularly contributes to knowledge base article creation and refinement.
• Serves as an active member and has strong experience in one Subject Matter Expert (SME) group.
• This role assists with providing 24/7 coverage as part of an on-call rotation with other support members.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Minimum of 4 years of experience supporting users who use Tessitura Software and Products.
• Demonstration of strong customer service skills, initiative, and ability to assume additional duties.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, even when troubleshooting a topic outside of personal expertise.
• Knowledgeable in multiple areas of the Tessitura Environment and supporting technologies, including: networking concepts, SQL Server, API troubleshooting or credit card processing.
• Self-motivated. Able to work efficiently in a virtual environment, including learning new topics and functionality.
• Excellent communicator, written and verbal.
• Ability to explain complex concepts and situations to people with varying ranges of technical understanding.
• Ability to multi-task successfully. You will have daily support responsibilities that will need to be managed alongside customer-driven deadlines that will require dynamic real-time prioritization based on multiple factors.
• Has experience demonstrating a consistent sense of urgency and follow up on open issues to ensure resolution.
• Extremely detailed, organized and results oriented.

Please apply by using the online form. If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact us at [email protected]

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