Systems & IT Operations Specialist
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Customer Operations Associate I
Affirm
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇨🇦 Canada
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💰 CA$39,000 - CA$59,000 per year
Job Level
JuniorMid-Level
Tech Stack
iOS
About the role
- Resolve escalated customer inquiries via predominantly email, with occasional need for phone calls to support customers.
- Responsible for maintaining a high level of professionalism and maintaining excellent Quality Assurance scores with clients while working to establish a positive rapport
- Utilization of your in-depth product and financial knowledge to communicate, investigate, and resolve customer issues on a larger variety of case types.
- Participate and assist in ongoing training to develop new skills and responsibilities
- Help identify trends and areas of improvement including agent coaching, quality monitoring and product features
- Participate in the incubation phase of new products and features and assist with ad-hoc projects as needed
- Responsible for independently managing schedules and emails channels in order to drive higher productivity performance and quality scores.
- Proactive willingness to collaborate cross-functionally with other Affirm teams to analyze, assess and resolve complex customer issues
- Opportunity to participate in voluntary specialized processes in addition to day to day responsibilities
- Initiate document creation, including meeting minutes, N-Pagers, and procedural updates
Requirements
- Willingness to support operation functions on evenings, weekends and public holidays
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Capable of delivering high quality work independently and/or virtually while remaining flexible in a fast-growth environment
- 1-3 years required experience interacting with customers in an omnichannel environment (phone, email, chat, etc)
- Experience within the financial industry is a plus
- Sound judgment and proactive problem solving skills
- Ability to apply analytical thinking in decision making with keen organizational skills and attention to detail
- Team player with an interest in collaborating with and learning from cross-functional partners
- Strong follow-through and ability to manage competing priorities
- Mac (iOS) and Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) knowledge a plus
- Comfortable with working with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to assess and drive performance
Benefits
- Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
- Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
- Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
- ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
customer inquiry resolutionquality assuranceanalytical thinkingproblem solvingschedule managementdocument creation
Soft skills
verbal communicationwritten communicationflexibilityteam collaborationorganizational skillsattention to detailproactive approachfollow-throughability to manage competing priorities
