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Podcast Support Specialist

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 1–2 years of experience in a customer support role - SaaS, subscriptions, or consumer apps a plus
  • Excellent written communication - Clear, warm, and patient
  • A problem-solving mindset - Resourceful, curious, good at interpreting problems
  • Reliable and organized - Comfortable owning a queue of tickets on a part-time schedule

Responsibilities

  • Respond to inbound listener questions via email
  • Troubleshoot common listener issues
  • Flag recurring issues or trends in ticket volume to the team
  • Explain how premium feeds, gifting, and subscription plans work

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Problem Solving
  • Mobile Apps

About the company

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Slate is a daily magazine on the Web. Founded in 1996, we are a general-interest publication offering analysis and commentary about politics, news, business, technology, and culture. Slate's strong editorial voice and witty take on current events have been recognized with numerous awards, including the National Magazine Award for General Excellence Online. The site, which is owned by The Graham Holdings Company, does not charge for access and is supported by advertising revenues.

Company details

Company typeStartup
IndustryBook Publishing
Company size201 - 500

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Job description

At Supporting Cast, we help your favorite podcasts—shows from leading publishers like NPR, SiriusXM, and NBC, as well as beloved independents—build sustainable businesses through paid subscriptions. We're looking for a Podcast Support Specialist to join our small, high-impact team and be the friendly, reliable voice for listeners across every show on our platform.

You'll be the first point of contact for listeners who need help signing up, logging in, managing a subscription, or getting a podcast app set up correctly. This is a part-time, listener-facing role. You'll play a key part in making sure paying subscribers have a great experience.


What You'll Do
  • Respond to inbound listener questions via email (sign-up issues, login problems, billing questions, gift redemption, and podcast app setup)
  • Troubleshoot common listener issues
  • Flag recurring issues or trends in ticket volume to the team
  • Look up listener accounts and take action within policy (updating account details, issuing refunds or receipts, resolving billing discrepancies)
  • Explain how premium feeds, gifting, and subscription plans work in clear, friendly language
  • Recognize outstanding issues or platform bugs and route them to the right internal team
  • Keep internal FAQs and documentation up to date

Must-Haves
  • 1–2 years of experience in a customer support role - SaaS, subscriptions, or consumer apps a plus
  • A genuine customer-first mindset - You take pride in making listeners feel taken care of
  • Excellent written communication - Clear, warm, and patient, even when explaining something technical to someone who isn't
  • A problem-solving mindset - Resourceful, curious, good at interpreting problems and breaking them down
  • Good judgment about what to resolve directly versus what to escalate
  • Reliable and organized - Comfortable owning a queue of tickets on a part-time schedule

Nice to Have
  • Experience with subscription or membership businesses (Patreon, Substack, etc.)
  • Familiarity with podcast apps and RSS feeds from a listener's perspective
  • Experience with support or ticketing tools (Zendesk, Help Scout, Intercom, etc.)
  • Genuine interest in podcasting or the broader creator economy

WHY JOIN SUPPORTING CAST?

You’ll help make workplaces more connected, informed, and interesting via the magic of podcasting. Supporting Cast built one of podcasting’s first and most successful subscription management platforms for top public podcasters before expanding to improve employee experiences at some of the most interesting companies in the world.

This is a great opportunity if you want ownership of your work, a taste of startup life, and the responsibility of setting the bar high for a new team. You’ll also enjoy competitive salary and benefits in a remote-first, mission-driven, and family-friendly team.

About Supporting Cast:

Supporting Cast is a podcast monetization platform that helps top publishers and creators offer premium subscription content directly to listeners. Our clients include leading podcast publishers like NPR, SiriusXM, and NBC, along with major independent shows. A proponent of the open ecosystem, we make it seamless for subscribers to access premium podcast content in their favorite app—no new app to download—and give publishers the tools to grow and manage their paying audience with flexible integrations, analytics, and payments.

We’re a small, fully remote company with a strong belief in the future of audio. We’re looking for someone who is thoughtful and detail-oriented to help us bring the magic of podcasting into more corporate settings.

Supporting Cast is an affiliate of the Graham Holdings Company (NYSE:GHC). GHC is a diversified holding company whose operations include educational services; home health and hospice care; television broadcasting, online, print, and local TV news; automotive dealerships; manufacturing; hospitality; and consumer internet companies.

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