Job Description:
StarRez is a leading global proptech company with a strong differentiated market position focused on transforming the resident experience by providing the engagement solutions and insights critical to successful residential communities. Our team is committed to building software that positively impacts the lives of millions of residents each year. We’re a passionate team, experiencing healthy growth each year. We’ve dominated the global higher-education student bed market and expanding into a great fit parallel market in PBSA (purpose-built student accommodations), where we already serve happy and successful customers. Our CSAT ratings are in the 99-100% – outrageous for any market or business.
We’re looking for talented, passionate, smart, resourceful, highly motivated teammates to support our momentum and contribute to serving and expanding our thriving community.
The role of Solutions Analyst is fully remote within the UK.
Primary Objectives
The Solutions Expert serves as a link between customers, community relations, sales, product, and development teams.
Responsibilities include scoping, demos, functional escalations, conduit into product management and new enhancements and releases, JIRA monitoring, and helping establish and train the team on best practices.
Major Accountabilities
Best Practices
- Consult with customers and the team on best business practices (supportable configuration, optimal product use, etc.)
- How to use StarRez modules for specific needs/scenarios
- Envision viable and sustainable workarounds that can be implemented to address special requirements
- Build and demo test prototypes as proof-of-concept of specific solutions
Scoping (Work with the team and customers to utilize standards)
- Non-standard interfaces (which we’re trying to eliminate)
- Changes to existing custom interfaces (which we’re trying to eliminate)
- Custom “tools” (i.e. special billing tools) scoping – new and changes (we’re trying to eliminate)
- PortalX conversions
- Assist in scoping cloud conversions
- Reports (complex standard ones or non-standard)
- Scope solutions using Data Subscriptions and other StarRez standard tools
- Support customers scoping with their data needs (data loads, data management, data updates)
Demo
- Provide complex demos beyond account managers ability
- Train CR & Sales to demonstrate new modules and features
- Build prototypes & proof-of-concepts
Functional Escalations
- Help diffuse and provide solutions for customer escalations when related to product “issues”
- Support Account Managers with best positioning of product features and solutions
- ‘Go-to’ resource for teams to review unique situations, escalations, or general problems and help the teams work through solutions and positioning
Product Management “Connection”
- Translate product management initiatives, releases, plans, programs, etc. for the benefit of the Sales teams and customers (i.e. release notes, release plans, product and features availability, etc.)
- Represent the Sales teams and customer feedback, to Product Management and Development
- Train the Sales teams on new releases, products, features and modules on a frequency agreed by Sales leadership
- Support the Early Access Program, by identifying/Engaging customers for beta-testing, focus-groups, etc.
Jira monitoring
- Help monitor CA/CD/TECHHELP Jira jobs
- CR and Sales focused – from product scoping, assessments, product priorities
Competencies Required
Skills
- Self-motivated, disciplined, and able to work autonomously
- Ability to successfully build and maintain trusted relationships with all level of stakeholders
- Ability to establish and maintain trusted relationships with customers
- An expert listener. Can demonstrate a detailed understanding of the constraints and challenges that each stakeholder needs to contend with
- Ability to aggressively prioritise and know when and how to say ‘No’
- A constant focus on the big picture and how every day actions and decisions contribute to product strategy
- Firm understanding of how customers get value out of products
- Excellent attention to detail
- Able to maintain a high level of productivity, manage multiple competing priorities, and work effectively under pressure and with time constraints in a fast-paced team-oriented environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Firm understanding of the use of technology and data to support product decision making
- Ability to accept responsibility and take ownership
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Familiarity, usage, and knowledge of StarRez and products in prior roles or work history
- Proven experience in a product-related role with in an agile software environment
- A genuine interest in and broad understanding of technology
Desirable
- Experience working in/with student housing and possibly higher education
Values and Attitudes
- Outcome focused, delivering results for customers and our business
- Structured, process minded
- Takes pride and ownership in work
- Proactive, takes initiative
- Commitment and dedication to work within deadlines, follows through with tasks
- Willing to ask for help and learn
- Enthusiastic and positive attitude, gets involved
- Team player who is approachable, friendly and helpful
- Adaptable and flexible