\n\nCome help us support the teams behind some of the highest-profile and highest-traffic WordPress sites in the world. You’ll build relationships with our clients’ developers, partners, and editorial teams to improve and shape our platform, and ensure our clients and their users have the best experience with our services. We are looking for people with a mix of empathy, writing skills, accountability, WordPress knowledge, and code savviness.\n\nAre you interested in learning more about how our team works? Check out what our VIP Happiness Engineers have to say.\n\nYour day would involve:\n\nMaintaining the quality, accuracy, and thoroughness that is part of our high-touch, concierge support.\n\nHelping clients and teammates via tickets and real-time discussions using a variety of tools, processes, research, debugging, detailed error reporting, and documentation.\n\nTroubleshooting tough problems with client sites, themes, and platform tools that often deal with edge cases and WordPress internals at scale.\n\nHandling high-pressure situations and one-off projects involving complex dependencies, multiple stakeholders, and tight deadlines.\n\nObserving and relaying opportunities to make our platform, services, and overall offering more appealing.\n\nCreating and updating internal and client-facing documentation.\n\nUseful skills for you to have:\n\nPatience, grace, and a sense of humor.\n\nAdvanced proficiency with WordPress and some of its plugins, themes, and WP-CLI.\n\nA solid understanding of the Web; including familiarity with PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, REST APIs, HTTP, DNS, and SVN or Git.\n\nExperience working primarily in a customer-facing role, including support and training.\n\nAdmirable troubleshooting skills that help you take big problems and break them down into manageable pieces with elegant solutions—and importantly, keeping our customers apprised of progress throughout.\n\nGreat communication skills. We’re a distributed team, so frequent and clear written communication is a requirement.\n\nA self-driven work ethic where you take initiative and follow things through to completion. You’re comfortable prioritizing tasks and deciding what you should work on next.\n\nCuriosity and the desire to learn. Keeping up to date with changing WordPress and technology trends on behalf of the VIP team and clients, often training others once you’ve become proficient. Flexibility is key.\n\nConsideration of the 24/7 nature of support and a can-do attitude to help with weekend, holiday, and/or evening coverage*. Our customers are global, and rely on us to provide expedient support, at any time of day.\n\n* Fear not! We understand that some folks are able to have more flexible schedules than others and we strongly support being able to craft schedules that help you take care of your own needs, as well.\n\nVIP Happiness Engineers should be fluent and eloquent in written English. If you know additional languages, be sure to tell us.\n\nWe’re serious about increasing diversity in the tech industry and are hiring in all timezones for this role. We encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, members of the LGBTQ community, and other communities traditionally underrepresented in this field. Read more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion.\n\nHow to apply\n\nDoes this sound interesting? If yes, please send an email to jobs @ this domain telling us about yourself and attach a résumé. Let us know what you can contribute to the team. Include the title of the position you’re applying for and your name in the subject. Proofread! Make sure you spell and capitalize WordPress and Automattic correctly. We are lucky to receive hundreds of applications for every position, so try to make your application stand out. If you apply for multiple positions or send multiple emails there will be one reply.\n\nIf you’re reading this on a site other than automattic.com please make sure you visit automattic.com/work-with-us for the latest details on applying.\n\nWant to increase your chances of standing out? Let us know where you heard about the position and what your thoughts are on this question:\n\nWhat do you think makes for a great enterprise-level client experience?\n\n← Work With Us\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer and Customer Support jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n