Customer Care Associate - APAC (New Zealand)
Content + Source + Freshness • 12 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High value position due to competitiveness in the customer care space, promising growth opportunities, and attractive benefits for remote work.
- Promising salary: $47,650–$53,600 NZD
- Strong emphasis on customer advocacy
- Remote working with flexible schedules
- High ticket volume may increase pressure
Pros
- Good starting salary range ($47,650–$53,600 NZD)
- Work from anywhere flexibility
- Focus on customer success and advocacy
Cons
- Potentially stressful due to high ticket volumes
- Requires rapid response and customer service skills
- Limited focus on managerial growth
Who it's for
Entry to Mid-level • Remote
Good fit
- Customer service enthusiasts
- Individuals eager to collaborate
- Entry-level representatives looking to grow
Not recommended for
- Candidates without customer service history
- Individuals averse to dynamic customer interactions
- Those preferring isolated work settings
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
About Remote
We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.
The position
The Customer Care Associate position at Remote is focused on supporting our standard users. The Customer Care Associate will be responsible for providing customer support to our various user types across a number of verticals and product areas via email and live messaging channels.
Requirements
- Strong problem-solving skills with a passion for enhancing the customer journey and advocating for customer needs.
- Experience (or equivalent) in Customer Support or Customer Enablement within a product or tech environment, with hands-on experience in Live Chat and Email Support.
- Experience using CRM tools to manage customer interactions and support workflows.
- Proven ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders who have varying priorities.
- Excellent team collaboration and communication skills—diligent, persistent, yet kind and patient with others.
- Strong interest in modern web technologies and applications, with the ability to navigate ambiguous situations comfortably.
- Fluent in written and spoken English.
Nice-to-have:
- Experience working remotely or in a fast-growing organization.
- Familiarity with HR, Payroll, Healthcare, and/or Pension systems.
Key responsibilities
- Responsible for solving tickets per week across various Remote verticals
- Maintain productivity standards, while ensuring high attention to detail with a healthy obsession with the customer journey and customer advocacy.
- Respond within agreed Service Level time to standard tickets via email and live messaging across all verticals
- Work in close collaboration with the Customer Success, cross-vertical operational teams and Sales.
- You’ll be the voice and the ear for our users
Practicals
- You'll report to: Customer Care Manager
- Team: Customer Experience
- Location: New Zealand
- Start date: As soon as possible
Remote Compensation Philosophy
Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.
At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.
Application process
- Interview with recruiter
- Interview with future manager
- Interview with team members (no managers present)
- Interview with an executive
- Bar Raiser Interview
- Offer + Prior employment verification check
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Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.
At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.
Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.
At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.
Benefits
- work from anywhere
- flexible paid time off
- flexible working hours (we are async)
- 16 weeks paid parental leave
- mental health support services
- stock options
- learning budget
- home office budget & IT equipment
- budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces
How you’ll plan your day (and life)
We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.
You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.
If that sounds like something you want, apply now!
How to apply
- Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
- We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
- If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.
Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.
We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.
At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines check see here.
Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.
