- Bachelor's degree or equivalent, preferably in computer science, information systems, business operations, or a related field.
- 4+ years of hands-on Zendesk configuration experience in a customer service, BPO, or live operations environment, including triggers, automations, routing rules, forms, fields, views, and SLA policies. Zendesk Support Administrator Expert Certification strongly preferred.
- Track record of acting on your own initiative, identifying problems and opportunities, raising them, and driving them through to delivery.
- Experience translating business requirements into clean, well-documented platform builds that scale across multiple sites and BPO partners.
- Experience configuring and maintaining workforce management tooling such as Tymeshift, NICE, or Verint, with working knowledge of how WFM rules connect to operational adherence.
- Strong understanding of permissions, access controls, and security best practices in a multi-vendor environment, with the discipline to audit and flag risks proactively.
- Experience building reports in Zendesk Explore, Looker, Tableau, Power BI, or similar, and a habit of anticipating what stakeholders need from data before they ask.
- Strong communicator who works cross-functionally with Operations, WFM, Analytics, and AI/Automation teams, raises trade-offs early, and pushes back when requirements aren't clear.