Customer Service Guide Jobs

Customer Engagement is at the forefront of how we create intuitive, innovative, and beautiful moments that our customers will love.

As a Customer Service Guide, you will manage a book of business from reservation to the purchase process, and throughout the ownership experience. As the Guide, you are your customer’s primary point of contact, you will provide customers with the ability to enjoy planning their own adventures while taking on as much of the leg work required to navigate them through the process. 

Day-to-day responsibilities will include tracking and monitoring the progression of your customers through the transaction to delivery steps; utilizing phone, email, chat, and SMS as your means of communication. You will be working with partner teams in Rivian Financing, Rivian Insurance, Registration, Payments, Trade-In, Delivery, Charging, and Service - operationally facilitating your customer’s questions and needs, acting as the conduit for any cross-functional needs. You will leverage our CRM system along with our project tracking tools to ensure you’re reaching out at the correct touch-points and checking in to ensure progression as they near delivery while maintaining your daily, weekly and monthly target goals, SLAs and KPIs. We’re looking for someone who loves people and is excited to take every opportunity to overdeliver when it comes to delighting and interacting with our Rivian customers, fans, and community. 

You will be fully trained to perform your role. This training includes a 5-week onboarding plan alongside your newly hired Guide cohort, where we will assign you an onboarding buddy, and ongoing training as needed and dictated by our evolving needs. Delivering the customer experience we want requires many people and effective teamwork. Our team will support, empower, and enable you along the way.

• Break down complex ideas related to product innovation and upgrades in a digestible, fun, and easy way to understand 
• Build rapport and learn how to support each owner, meeting them where they are in their EV ownership journey
• Review your book of business daily to ensure customer progression across their journey is moving adequately
• Manage general product support and event inquiries surrounding Vehicle Preorders, Vehicle Configurations, Rivian Shop Orders, Retail Store Support, Demo Drive Scheduling, and additional support and pre-sales scope as needed
• Provide exceptional quality of service during every interaction with our customers while paying close attention to sentiment
• Additional tasks as assigned
• Manages and reports on customer escalations or exception cases up to leadership through ownership 
• Track and follow up on any tasks that need to be completed on behalf of assigned customers to provide an exceptional purchase and ownership experience within SLA
• Adheres to team SLA and cross-functional SLA that impact and drive business KPIs
• You will partner with and support a group of customers through their entire customer journey with Rivian, beginning with the vehicle selection and into the ownership phase
• You will be their primary facilitator for all things Rivian, directing them to the right places for action
• Participate in virtual and in-person tours as assigned
• Responsible for managing 25+ vehicle transactions at any one time
• Collaborate with our closest cross-functional partners; Delivery Mobile Operations, Rivian Financing, Rivian, Insurance, Title & Registration, Charging, and Service partner teams
• Perform daily reviews and audits of accounts for information accuracy 
• Share trends and areas of opportunity within our process to operationally improve our effectiveness and the customer experience
• Think strategically and interpret your performance analytics and track progress using reporting and dashboards
• Complete operational tasks tied to a customer’s account; reviewing them weekly and reaching out as necessary to complete their next milestone
• Manage and guide the cross functional partners to ensure timeout customer delivery and exceptional customer service 
• Listen and understand the needs of each owner so that you can deliver a tailored brand experience.
• Soak up all the information you can about Rivian to bring the brand to life with our community
• Manage a book of business of 300+ customers in various vehicle journey lifecycles across 14+ states

• Ability to learn quickly, work in a fast-paced environment and adapt to changing timelines
• Proven ability to multi-task and navigate multiple work streams and tools
• Bachelors Degree or equivalent time in role preferred
• 3+ years’ experience in account management or dedicated customer relationship management/sales role preferred
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time for training purposes and to support organizational needs
• Experience using CRM and performance systems (ex. Salesforce, Calabrio, Tableau, Smartsheet)
• 5+ years’ experience in high-volume customer service role preferred
• EV industry experience helpful
• Exceptional organizational skills; ability to track your customer’s progress through their purchase process into ownership; prioritize workload with exceptional quality
• Requires nights/weekends as needed; based on team and customer needs and urgency
• 1-year experience in a call center environment preferred
• Excellent written and verbal language skills in English, bilingual a plus
• 1+ years operations experience preferred