Metropolitan Transportation Authority Careers

Note: TA candidates must be permanent civil service in order to be considered or be on an established list or have passed a corresponding examination. 

POSITION SUMMARY 

New York City Transit is looking for customer communicators with extensive experience to provide world class customer care for the millions of people we move each day. In this role, you will translate information about current subway and bus service received from multiple channels into customer-facing communications and publish it across multiple channels, including mta.info, the MTA app and third-party apps, and screens in subway stations and on buses.    

You will also provide best-in-class customer care – monitoring in-take queues, determining response approach, and providing support to customers until you’ve helped them get where they need to go, resolved their issue, or adequately addressed their concerns.  

As a customer advocate, you don’t just chat, you get results. When customers encounter issues in their journey, you work with other teams to address them. Your work and ideas will help us identify root causes so that we can find sustainable solutions. There’s a high level of autonomy — you engage freely on behalf of NYCT — but you must be able to adhere to brand guidelines and protocol. You are also expected to evaluate current practices and recommend strategies and tactics to improve the way we keep customers informed.  

You perform in a high-volume, fast-paced environment and work collaboratively with other teams to ensure communications are timely, accurate, and consistent. Candidates should have experience in content development, community management, high-volume customer service, plus a strong interest in the transit system.  

RESPONSIBILITIES: 

The selected candidate will monitor New York City’s subway and bus services in real-time to determine customer impact, translate internal service change messages into customer facing communications and quickly publish to multiple channels, monitor incoming chats, determine the best approach for individual customer queries, and respond accordingly, in plain language (non-jargon) and with a conversational tone. The selected candidate will also escalate urgent issues to operations staff and senior leadership as needed, manage customer queries from start to finish, which may require follow up days later, seek opportunities for improving proactive service communications, brand building, and storytelling for all NYCT services. The selected candidate must be able to and available to work in a 24/7 environment that includes weekdays, overnight shifts, weekends and/or holidays as required 

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: 

• A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college and two (2) years of satisfactory, full-time experience in a customer service or public information capacity; or 

• An associate degree from an accredited college and three (3) years of satisfactory, full-time experience in a customer service or public information capacity; or 

• A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and four (4) years of satisfactory, full-time experience in a customer service or public information capacity; or 

• Education and/or experience equivalent to 1, 2, or 3 above. 

Special Note:  

To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level II, individuals must have, after meeting the minimum requirements, one additional year of professional experience as described in "2" above. 

DESIRED SKILLS: 

• Quick and critical thinking. This role requires you to use good judgment managing multiple issues with varying degrees of complexity each day. 

• Experience in content development, community management, plus a strong interest in the transit system, or ideally, all three. 

• Demonstrated ability to gather, assess, and distill complex information and create customer-focused messaging. 

• Ability to multitask and balance competing priorities efficiently.  

• High attention to detail and organizational skills 

• Ability to operate quickly and efficiently in a high-pressure environment. 

• A strong understanding of the MTA subway and bus network, or the ability to quickly acquire this knowledge. 

• Ability to work independently with little oversight as well as perform well in a team environment. 

• Flexible worker who collaborates well with peers and fosters a positive workplace. 

• Exceptional listening, writing, and verbal communications skills 

• Service-minded and empathetic to customer experience