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# SMB Product Specialist, Core at Homebase

- **Company:** Homebase
- **Location:** Houston, TX
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-11-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/homebase/6e974123-109b-4a61-8b5e-dc1bd778ef85

## Job description

Hi, Future Homie! At Homebase, you’ll join a team that’s bold, fast-moving, and obsessed with helping small businesses thrive. We build with empathy, act with urgency, and take big swings that drive real-world impact. Here, every Homie shows up to raise the bar, support one another, and celebrate wins as a team. We’re not just building an app—we’re building unstoppable teams. So what do you say, are you in? As a Product Specialist on our Customer Experience team, you'll help thousands of small business owners confidently use Homebase to run better businesses every day. You'll combine deep product expertise with curiosity, empathy, and problem-solving to guide customers through questions, remove friction, and help them get the most value from our Core platform—including scheduling, time tracking, team communication, hiring, and HR tools. Every interaction is an opportunity to build trust, strengthen customer confidence, and create advocates for Homebase.

📍Your Impact Starts Here The Customer Experience team exists to help our customers succeed—not just solve issues. As a Product Specialist, Core, you'll become a trusted product expert who empowers customers to confidently navigate Homebase and make informed decisions for their teams. You'll balance product knowledge with empathy, helping customers achieve outcomes while sharing insights that continuously improve our product and customer experience. You'll also embrace AI-first ways of working, using modern tools and automation to improve customer experiences, increase efficiency, and continuously evolve how work gets done. These are the key ways you’ll contribute and create impact in this role:

- Delivering exceptional customer experiences across chat, email, and phone while providing timely, accurate product guidance.
- Becoming a trusted expert in Homebase's Core platform, including Scheduling, Time Tracking, Team Communication, Hiring, HR, and related workflows.
- Identify opportunities to introduce customers to features and capabilities that better meet their needs, helping them maximize the value of Homebase.
- Investigating customer issues, identifying root causes, and delivering thoughtful, complete solutions.
- Partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Payroll, Sales, and Customer Success to advocate for customers and improve the overall customer experience.
- Identify recurring customer trends and provide actionable product feedback that helps improve the customer experience.
- Leverage AI tools to improve personal productivity, accelerate research, summarize customer interactions, and enhance the quality and speed of customer support.
- Participate in testing new tools and processes, providing actionable feedback that helps improve the customer and agent experience.
- Contribute to a culture of curiosity, learning, accountability, and continuous improvement.

🚀 The Foundation for Success - These are the experiences and strengths that will set you up for success in this role:

- 1+ years of experience in Customer Support, Customer Experience, Technical Support, Product Support, or another customer-facing role.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts in simple, customer-friendly language.
- Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Comfortable learning new software products quickly and becoming a product expert.
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize multiple customer conversations while maintaining quality and empathy.
- Curiosity and adaptability in a fast-moving environment.
- Experience working with CRM, ticketing, or customer support platforms (Zendesk, Salesforce, Intercom, etc.) is a plus.
- Comfortable experimenting with AI tools to improve productivity and customer outcomes, with a willingness to continuously learn new technologies.
- Ability to collaborate in-office every Monday-Thursday at our Houston hub location.

🤝  The Homie Way - These principles guide everything we do—from how we work and make decisions to how we show up for each other.

- 💡 Be Customer Obsessed – Solve problems with empathy and creativity.
- ⚡ Move Fast, Learn Fast – Experiment, take action, and grow every day.
- 🎯 Own Your Impact – Think big, focus on what matters, and make decisions you stand behind.
- 🏆 Master Your Craft – Excellence fuels impact—show up, step up, and make your mark.
- 🏅 Win Together – Put goals over roles, lead with trust, and connect to our mission and each other.

## What We Offer

- 💰 Ownership & Financial Security: Stock options + 401(k) with 4% match
- 🏥 Comprehensive Healthcare: Medical, dental, and vision coverage + FSA options
- ⏰ Flexible Time: 20 days PTO + company holidays
- 🤖 AI access, for real: We invest in builders and believe that curiosity shouldn't have a paywall. That means you'll have access to paid AI tools with minimal restrictions, so you can build, experiment, and level up your craft.
- 👶 Family Support: Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave (after 6 months of service)
- 🛡️ Protection Plans: Life insurance + short/long-term disability coverage
- 🌟 Work Your Way: Work From Anywhere Month + meeting-free weeks yearly
- 🍽️ Workspace Perks: Meals provided, commuter benefits, team offsites, and Customer Days
- 💼 Our Hybrid Rhythm: We believe collaboration drives impact. That’s why Monday-Thursday are our required in-office days—a time to move faster as a team, build deeper connections, make better decisions, and build together. Fridays are flexible — work from home or come in, your call.

💜 Belonging at Homebase - We're committed to fostering a welcoming space where every Homie can be their full self. Experience comes in many forms—so if you're excited about this role, even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications, we encourage you to apply!

👋 Hey, We’re Homebase Homebase is the everything app for hourly teams—built to simplify the day-to-day and superpower local businesses. With tools for scheduling, time clocks, payroll, communication, HR, and more, we help teams stay connected and in control. Today, over 150,000 small (but mighty) businesses rely on us to make work radically easier. Together, we’ve tracked over a billion hours for 2M+ workers—and we’re just getting started. At Homebase, we celebrate diversity and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all candidates and do not discriminate based on any legally protected status. If you need accommodations during the hiring process, please let us know—we’re committed to ensuring fair and equitable access for all.

## About Homebase

## Company Overview

- **One-liner**: Homebase provides an all-in-one employee management platform for hourly teams, covering scheduling, time clocks, payroll, hiring, and HR compliance.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, CA, USA (with hubs in Houston, Denver, and Toronto)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (estimated ~2015 based on growth trajectory)
- **Founders**: John Waldmann (CEO & Co-founder) – other co-founders not publicly listed.

## Core Business

- **Primary Industry**: Human resources technology / workforce management.
- **Target Customers**: B2B – small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with hourly employees, especially restaurants, retail shops, and service businesses.
- **Mission**: Make local business teams unstoppable. [joinhomebase.com/about-us](https://www.joinhomebase.com/about-us)

## Products & Services

- **Employee Scheduling**: Automated shift scheduling based on availability and preferences. Includes a Scheduling Assistant (AI-powered). [joinhomebase.com/](https://www.joinhomebase.com/)
- **Time Clock**: Clock in/out from any device; hours, breaks, and overtime flow into payroll-ready timesheets. [joinhomebase.com/](https://www.joinhomebase.com/)
- **Payroll**: Integrated payroll that calculates wages, taxes, and tips from timesheets. Payroll Assistant flags errors early. [joinhomebase.com/](https://www.joinhomebase.com/)
- **Hiring**: Job posting, candidate screening, and interview booking via a Hiring Assistant (AI). [joinhomebase.com/](https://www.joinhomebase.com/)
- **HR & Compliance**: Built-in team communication (messenger), compliance tools, and employee perks. [joinhomebase.com/solutions](https://www.joinhomebase.com/solutions)

All offerings are SaaS-based and mobile-friendly.

## Market Standing

- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric** (Funding): Raised a $60M Series D in April 2024 led by L Catterton Growth and Emerson Collective. [joinhomebase.com/press](https://www.joinhomebase.com/press?86c704dd_page=2) (citing TechCrunch)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: L Catterton Growth, Emerson Collective.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Over 100,000 small businesses and 2 million employees served (as of April 2024). [joinhomebase.com/press](https://www.joinhomebase.com/press?86c704dd_page=2)
  - 3.5 million workers supported and 3 billion+ hours tracked (as of 2025). [joinhomebase.com/](https://www.joinhomebase.com/) and [joinhomebase.com/about-us](https://www.joinhomebase.com/about-us)
  - Named Fast Company’s 2025 Best Workplaces for Innovators North America. [joinhomebase.com/press](https://www.joinhomebase.com/press?86c704dd_page=2)
  - 85% of customers rate it “extremely easy to use.” [joinhomebase.com/](https://www.joinhomebase.com/)
  - Managers save an average of 20 hours per month. [joinhomebase.com/](https://www.joinhomebase.com/)

## Competitive Advantages

- **All-in-One Platform**: Combines scheduling, time tracking, payroll, hiring, and HR in a single app designed specifically for hourly teams.
- **AI Assistants**: Proactive AI tools (Hiring, Scheduling, Payroll) that reduce manual admin work.
- **SMB Focus**: Deep understanding of local businesses (restaurants, shops) often underserved by enterprise HR software.
- **Ease of Use**: High user satisfaction (4.8 app store rating, 84K reviews). [joinhomebase.com/](https://www.joinhomebase.com/)
- **Data Insights**: Economic data on small business health used by academics and policymakers. [joinhomebase.com/about-us](https://www.joinhomebase.com/about-us)

## Strategic Focus

- **AI Innovation**: Continued development of AI assistants to further automate routine tasks for small business owners.
- **Expansion**: Growing customer base beyond 100,000 businesses and deepening payroll and hiring capabilities.
- **Small Business Advocacy**: Positioning as the go-to platform for hourly workers and Main Street employers.

## Why Work Here

- **Culture & Values**: “The Homie Way” emphasizes moving fast, owning impact, mastering your craft, winning together, and being customer obsessed. [joinhomebase.com/careers](https://www.joinhomebase.com/careers)
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid/office presence with hubs in San Francisco, Houston, Denver, and Toronto. Offers a “Work from Anywhere Month” annually. [joinhomebase.com/careers](https://www.joinhomebase.com/careers)
- **Perks** (U.S.): Medical/dental/vision, 401(k) matching, pre-tax commuter benefits, snacks/lunch at hubs, MasterClass subscription. (Canada): Group health benefits, RRSP with employer match, TFSA. [joinhomebase.com/careers](https://www.joinhomebase.com/careers)
- **General**: Stock options, paid parental leave, generous PTO, offsites and social events. [joinhomebase.com/careers](https://www.joinhomebase.com/careers)
- **Recognition**: Named “Best Startup Employers” and “Best HR & Employee App” (2025). [joinhomebase.com/careers](https://www.joinhomebase.com/careers)

## Sources

1. [joinhomebase.com/careers](https://www.joinhomebase.com/careers) – Perks, culture, work policy
2. [joinhomebase.com/about-us](https://www.joinhomebase.com/about-us) – Mission, metrics, investors, social impact
3. [joinhomebase.com/](https://www.joinhomebase.com/) – Product overview, customer stats, awards
4. [joinhomebase.com/press](https://www.joinhomebase.com/press?86c704dd_page=2) – Series D funding, press coverage, awards
5. [joinhomebase.com/solutions](https://www.joinhomebase.com/solutions) – Product features (HR, compliance, messaging)

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