[Remote] Customer Support Specialist for a Travel Agency

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Purely Optimal is a membership travel service that provides exclusive hotel rates to its members. The Customer Support Specialist will manage member inquiries through email, live chat, and phone, ensuring quick and effective resolutions while collaborating with the operations team.

Responsibilities

• Handle email inquiries as the core of the role, triage the inbox, prioritize, and resolve member tickets with clear, accurate, friendly replies
• Support members across channels, email, live chat, and occasional phone, on bookings, cancellations, modifications, membership, and billing questions
• Guide members through the platform and resolve issues at first contact wherever possible
• Verify identity and handle account details securely, following member verification and data-handling procedures
• Coordinate with operations and suppliers to resolve at-property or booking issues, and escalate the right cases at the right time
• Keep canned responses and help content sharp so common questions get fast, consistent answers
• Spot patterns in recurring issues and flag them to the operations team so we fix root causes, not just tickets

Skills

• Travel industry experience (required). You have worked in travel or hospitality before, whether at an OTA, travel agency, airline, hotel, or booking platform, and you understand how bookings, cancellations, and itineraries actually work
• Excellent written and spoken English, clear, warm, and professional. Members judge us by how well you communicate, so this matters as much as the travel knowledge above
• 1–2+ years in customer or member support, ideally email-based or in a ticketing environment
• Strong writing instincts, able to explain something complex simply and resolve it in one well-crafted reply
• Calm and empathetic under pressure, with a genuine solutions-first mindset
• Organized and detail-oriented, comfortable managing a busy ticket queue without dropping threads
• Tech-comfortable, quick to learn helpdesk, CRM, and booking tools
• A reliable internet connection and a quiet, professional remote workspace

Benefits

• Remote-first with a flexible, results-driven culture.
• Room to grow into senior support or operations as the company scales.
• A direct line to the operations team, your insights shape how we improve.

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