Employment Preferences
Availability:
Full Time
Part Time
Preferred Timezone:
Australian Eastern Standard Time
New Zealand Daylight Time
UK London
US Eastern Standard Time
Hourly & Monthly Rate:
(inclusive of service fee)
*Plus GST for Australian Businesses
Part Time: $USD 9.37 per hour or $USD 811.98 per month
Full Time: $USD 8.43 per hour or $USD 1461.50 per month
Remote Staff Recruiter Comments
Ana has approximately 17 years of extensive experience in customer experience, e-commerce operations, and executive support across various sectors, including the apparel, health and wellness, e-learning, banking, and insurance industries. She demonstrates a strong customer-first and resolution-driven approach, transitioning effectively from team leadership roles managing SLAs and KPIs to versatile operational support handling e-commerce management, marketplace administration, and founder assistance.
Work Experience
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She has roughly 17 years of relevant work experience in customer service, operations management, and e-commerce administration.
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Her background spans the apparel, e-commerce, health and wellness, e-learning, insurance, and financial services sectors.
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She handled end-to-end customer service, resolving B2B and B2C shipping and delivery issues.
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She managed high-volume ticketing systems using tags, macros, and priorities to consistently meet SLA and CSAT goals.
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She provided executive and founder support, organizing daily email inboxes, managing calendar schedules, and categorizing partnership inquiries.
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She oversaw back-office operations and customer service teams, managing KPIs, turnaround times, quality performance, and weekly/monthly scorecards.
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She supported recruitment efforts, onboarding, coaching, training, and continuous process improvement initiatives.
Career Highlights / Relevant Projects
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She successfully managed full-cycle order fulfillment and post-purchase support via e-commerce platforms, processing refunds, exchanges, cancellations, and complex order edits.
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She owned and managed marketplace operations, taking responsibility for product uploads, promotional pricing, reporting, and overall store administration.
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She optimized digital storefront operations by handling catalog creation, photo uploads, SEO optimization, and inventory replenishment requests for both merchant-fulfilled and network-fulfilled setups.
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She streamlined social media and content operations by coordinating content ideas, posting schedules, influencer outreach, and brand communications.
Skill Proficiency + Tech / Software Proficiency
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Customer Experience & Escalation Management
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E-commerce Operations & Marketplace Administration
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Executive Support & Inbox/Calendar Management
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Team Leadership, SLA, & KPI Management
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She is highly proficient in navigating platforms and systems including Shopify, Amazon Seller Central, Gorgias, Freshdesk, Zendesk, Oberlo, and Drift.
Executive Virtual Assistant (Retail Operations Support)
Industry:
Apparel
Employment Period:
August 2022 to April 2026 (44 Months)
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provided end-to-end Customer Service, Operations, Social Media and Founder support.
- Resolved B2B and B2C shipping and delivery issues and supported incoming inventory concerns.
- Managed order tracking and post-purchase support from checkout through resolution.
- Reviewed, updated and released Shopify orders prior to warehouse fulfillment, including address corrections, item swaps, quantity updates and order notes.
- Processed refunds, exchanges, cancellations and order edits in Shopify, with accurate documentation in Gorgias.
- Managed high-volume Gorgias tickets using tags, macros and priorities to support SLA and CSAT goals.
- Uploaded and maintained Shopify products, SKUs, descriptions and images.
- Coordinated with fulfillment partners, warehouses and couriers on shipping and delivery issues.
- Checked and responded to emails and DMs from influencers, brands and collaborators; supported content calendars, captions and hashtags.
- Owned and managed THE ICONIC product uploads, promotions, pricing, reporting and overall marketplace management.
Operations Support (Part-Time)
Industry:
Retail / Merchandise
Employment Period:
January 2017 to January 2024 (84 Months)
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provided multi-channel support via email, chat, phone and social media for Deputy, iHerb, Grubhub, Skillz, Thumbtack, POD ecommerce companies, and UK-based perfume and subscription brands.
- Handled order tracking, refunds, cancellations, subscription management and delivery issue resolution.
- Supported SEO-related tasks, content uploads, product listings and inventory monitoring in high-volume environments. E
- arlier Leadership Experience
Operations Customer Service / Social Media Manager
Industry:
Retail / Merchandise
Employment Period:
December 2020 to December 2022 (24 Months)
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Monitored and organized the Founder's daily email inbox and categorized brands, media, partnerships and internal-team communications.
- Flagged urgent partnership and media opportunities and managed inbound brand partnership enquiries.
- Organized content ideas, posting schedules and influencer outreach.
- Managed email, chat and social customer support across Shopify and Amazon.
- Processed refunds, cancellations, order edits and tracking enquiries; fulfilled Shopify, Amazon FBM and Oberlo orders.
- Coordinated with suppliers, shippers and 3PLs and maintained organized customer records.
Operations Support, SEO and Catalog Specialist
Industry:
Retail / Merchandise
Employment Period:
January 2020 to August 2022 (31 Months)
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Handled end-to-end Amazon store support including order issues, refunds, replacements and delivery concerns.
- Processed refunds and replacements through Amazon Seller Central for FBA and FBM.
- Supported catalog listing creation, photo uploads and SEO optimization.
- Monitored inventory and coordinated replenishment requests.
- Assisted with Amazon appeals and customer escalations.
Operations Support and Social Media Manager
Industry:
Consulting (Business & Management)
Employment Period:
April 2018 to December 2020 (32 Months)
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Managed daily email inbox, categorized communications and followed up with brands, collaborators and podcast guests.
- Managed calendar scheduling for meetings, podcast recordings, interviews and events.
- Organized content ideas, captions and posting schedules.
- Coordinated event communications and maintained Google Drive/internal folders.
- Provided email and live-chat support using Freshdesk and Drift. • Supported global customers with account access, billing, subscriptions and failed payments and handled high-volume launch and promotion support.
Operations Line Manager
Industry:
Banking / Financial Services
Employment Period:
January 2009 to January 2015 (72 Months)
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Managed claims/back-office operations, European card-services complaints, and US-based student-loan customer service and sales teams.
- Oversaw SLAs, turnaround time, KPIs, schedules, quality performance and monthly/weekly scorecards.
- Provided coaching, training, performance support and process-improvement assistance.
- Supported recruitment through candidate screening, interview coordination and onboarding