Customer Service Representative (Hybrid)

Customer Service Representative (Hybrid)

Are you passionate about helping people during important moments in their lives? Guardian is seeking Customer Service Representatives to join our award-winning Contact Center team. In this role, you will serve as a trusted resource for policyholders, helping customers navigate life insurance coverage, policy administration, payments, and account updates while delivering a professional, empathetic, and accurate service experience. This is an opportunity to build a meaningful career with a company committed to your professional growth, development, and success.

What It is Like to Work for Guardian  

While customers are at the center of a service-oriented business, at Guardian we believe our employees should receive the same attention, care, and support. In addition to a competitive benefits package, we are intentional about creating an environment where employees feel valued, supported, and equipped to succeed.

At Guardian, you will find development opportunities that allow you to grow in your role and align your work with your future career goals. Growth may come through continued industry education, shadowing, project work, coaching, or opportunities to become a subject matter expert. We want you to know that hard work is acknowledged, appreciated, and supported.

We are looking for customer-focused candidates who enjoy helping others, solving problems, and working in a structured, high-volume inbound contact center environment. Our Contact Center is known for delivering outstanding customer experiences, and we want to work with individuals who are motivated to provide clear guidance, accurate information, and care in every interaction.

You will:

• Respond to customer inquiries regarding life insurance coverage, premiums, loans, policy administration, and account updates while delivering a consistent and caring customer experience.

• Research and resolve customer questions, including premium or loan payment matters and eligible policy changes such as address or beneficiary updates.

• Explain policy information, coverage details, and available administrative options clearly so customers understand next steps.

• Recognize when customers should consult with their financial professional or when complex matters require escalation to the appropriate internal team.

• Properly verify callers by obtaining required data points or Personally Identifiable Information (PII) to ensure information is provided to the appropriate party.

• Navigate multiple systems, customer records, and knowledge resources while maintaining the flow of the customer conversation.

• De-escalate customer concerns, set clear expectations, and follow through on next steps to support timely resolution.

• Document customer interactions accurately and in a timely manner in accordance with procedures.

• Meet service and quality expectations in a high-volume environment, including schedule adherence, quality assurance, productivity, and customer experience measures.

You are:   

• Driven and inspired to show care and empathy in ways that positively impact the customer experience.

• Comfortable learning complex insurance products, internal procedures, and service standards.

• Detail-oriented, with a commitment to providing accurate information and following procedures consistently.

• Able to use resources, ask thoughtful questions, and solve problems quickly and independently.

• Calm under pressure and able to maintain professionalism during challenging customer conversations.

You have:

• Previous experience in retail, hospitality, banking, insurance, contact center, or another customer-facing service environment.

• A high school diploma or equivalent; additional education or equivalent work experience is welcome.

• Superior oral and written communication skills

• Strong organizational skills and an ability to multitask

• Comfort using computers, customer databases, knowledge resources, and multiple systems while documenting information accurately.

• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a team-based environment.

• A positive attitude and dedication to providing superior customer service.

Salary Range:

$42,830.00 - $64,250.00

The salary range reflected above is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position. The salary for this position ultimately will be determined based on the education, experience, knowledge, and abilities of the successful candidate. In addition to salary, this role may also be eligible for annual, sales, or other incentive compensation.

Our Promise

At Guardian, you’ll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals. Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards.

Inspire Well-Being

As part of Guardian’s Purpose – to inspire well-being – we are committed to offering contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources to our colleagues. Explore our company benefits at .  Benefits apply to full-time eligible employees. Interns are not eligible for most Company benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Guardian is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

Accommodations

Guardian is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Guardian also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individual's known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would create an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact View email address on click.appcast.io . Please note: this resource is for accommodation requests only. For all other inquires related to your application and careers at Guardian, refer to the Guardian Careers site.

Visa Sponsorship

Guardian is not currently or in the foreseeable future sponsoring employment visas. In order to be a successful applicant. you must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for employer sponsorship.

Notice Regarding Guardian’s Use of Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment

As part of Guardian’s job application process, Guardian may use artificial intelligence tools (“AI Tools\") to automate the sorting and filtering of information provided by applicants as part of its preliminary screening. This preliminary screening may be used to help identify applicant materials and resumes relative to their indication that the applicant meets the requirements for the specific job for which they are applying, as specified in the listing posted on Guardian’s jobs website (Careers at Guardian at ). At Guardian, we do not use AI Tools to substantially assist or replace human judgment or discretionary decision making in our hiring process. All hiring decisions will be made by Guardian colleagues.

Please be aware that if you apply for a specific position with Guardian, you will have the choice of opting out of Guardian’s use of AI Tools during the job application process. If you would like to request an alternative process that does not utilize AI Tools or would like to request a reasonable accommodation, within ten business days of your position application, you must email your request to View email address on click.appcast.io , making sure to provide your name and job requisition identification number. Guardian will retain your applicant materials and resume and all information therefrom in accordance with Guardian’s document retention policy, a copy of which you may request via View email address on click.appcast.io . 

Additionally, at applicable times, Guardian will make public the most recent bias audit results for such AI tools, which may be found here .