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Customer Escalations Specialist

Hatch

Hatch

Customer Service
New South Wales, Australia · Sydney, NSW, Australia
Posted on May 24, 2025
This is a Customer Escalations Specialist role with Uber based in Sydney, NSW, AU

  • Uber --

Role Seniority - junior

About The Team

More about the Customer Escalations Specialist role at Uber

The APAC COE (Center of Excellence) team believes in a #GoGetIt approach. Our successes are attributed to our people who are relentless to help others in any way we can. We handle critical concerns from safety to escalations, and make sure that the resolution matters to the customer - making each member an eventual promoter of Uber. The right time is always “now” when joining Uber and the COE; it has always been moving towards greater heights as we support a lot of markets - allowing you to learn every single day.

About The Role

As a Safety Investigations Specialist, you will take ownership of requests and solve customer tickets across all our critical and advanced lines of business through different modalities (phone, chat, message), challenging yourself to solve the most complicated and interesting problems our users face. You will present your insights to stakeholders and contribute towards the continuous improvement of our policy and services.You will create advocates out of even the most frustrated users, and you’re always looking for outstanding and exciting ways to improve their experience!

Your Impact In Role

Solving difficult problems: Seek to understand the complexity of customer issues to proactively tackle these contacts effectively and efficiently.

Educating our customers for future: Play a meaningful role in proactively educating customers and provide alternative user experience support channels

Being customer centric: Be empathic to our customer’s issues, and provide outstanding customer service to turn their negative experiences into positive ones.

Working collaboratively with others: Work closely with regional leadership and your team to tackle difficult issues and provide insights that improve the quality of Uber’s customer support to drive a culture of learning and continuous improvement within the company.

The Experience You’ll Bring

Comprehension skills: Excellent comprehension skills (active listening and reading), and ability to fully understand the issue and identify its root cause.

Communication skills: Excellent communication skills (speaking and writing) to confidently and spontaneously address all issues with clear and direct communication, across different audiences and modalities (like chat, email, phone).

Problem solving skills: Ability to break down sophisticated problems, offer well thought-out recommendations and push problems to resolution.

Work experience in customer service: Experience handling customer queries in a dynamic, constantly evolving environment.

Working Hours

Weekends & holiday work required

7am - 3pm OR 11am - 7pm hours

Before we jump into the responsibilities of the role. No matter what you come in knowing, you’ll be learning new things all the time and the Uber team will be there to support your growth.

🟢 Please consider applying even if you don't meet 100% of what’s outlined 🟢

Key Responsibilities

  • 🛠️ Solving difficult problems
  • 📚 Educating our customers for future
  • ❤️ Being customer centric

Key Strengths

  • 🧠 Comprehension skills
  • 💬 Communication skills
  • 🔍 Problem solving skills
  • 👥 Work experience in customer service

Why Uber is partnering with Hatch on this role. Hatch exists to level the playing field for people as they discover a career that’s right for them. So when you apply you have the chance to show more than just your resume.

A Final Note: This is a role with Uber not with Hatch.