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Hire a Customer Support Agent.

Tier-1 tickets answered with care — email, chat, and phone — by an agent who learns your product as well as your style guide.

Pre-vetted · Full-time dedicated · HR & payroll handled

Overview

What a Customer Support Agent actually does.

Customer support agents in our network treat every ticket as a chance to compound the next answer. We vet for written English clarity, troubleshooting discipline, and the willingness to escalate cleanly rather than guess. Bilingual English/Arabic available where it helps.


Responsibilities

  • Resolve tier-1 tickets across email, chat, and phone within SLA
  • Maintain and extend the help-centre knowledge base
  • Escalate complex issues with reproducible repro steps
  • Tag tickets and surface trends to product and CSM
  • Onboard new users with first-touch walkthroughs

Core Skills

What they bring on day one.

ZendeskIntercomHubSpot ServiceHelp Scout / FrontKnowledge-base authoringWritten EnglishTroubleshooting basicsBilingual English/Arabic (optional)
SAMPLE PROFILES

The shape of a typical shortlist.

Representative profiles — not real candidates. Your actual shortlist is drawn from our active network across Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia.

Tala

Mid-Level · 3 yrs

$1,900 CAD/mo

All-in, CAD — HR & payroll included

ZendeskIntercomKB authoringBilingual EN/AR

Based in Cairo, EG

Bassem

Junior · 2 yrs

$1,500 CAD/mo

All-in, CAD — HR & payroll included

Help ScoutFrontTier-1 troubleshootingWritten English

Based in Tunis, TN

PRICING

Tiers that apply to this role.

One flat CAD monthly rate — sourcing, vetting, onboarding, HR, payroll, and account management included. No recruiter fees, no currency surprises.

Need the full comparison against a local Canadian hire? See the pricing page →

How We Vet This Role

Role-scoped, not one-size-fits-all.

Support candidates respond to a mixed-difficulty ticket queue — we grade tone fit, factual accuracy, escalation judgment, and the help-centre note they leave behind.

See The Obelisk Vetting Process
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Ready to brief a Customer Support Agent?

15-minute call, written brief same day, shortlist within a week. If none of the candidates are right, we go again — no cost.

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