Customer Advocacy Specialist

Join to apply for the Customer Advocacy Specialist role at Affirm. Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. Affirm’s Customer Advocacy and Retention (CAR) team sits within Customer Operations and houses our customer complaint experts. When customers share their challenging experiences with Affim, we gain invaluable insight into the breaking points of our products, processes, or policies. As we learn from and champion for our customers, we use their voices to improve customer experience, deliver fair outcomes and repair relationships. As a Customer Advocacy Specialist, you'll be empowered as the Voice of Affim to use exceptional empathy and product expertise to solve highly complex complaints. The team facilitates communication and coordination among cross‑functional partners to identify the root causes and validity of the complaint, and uses a compliance and risk‑based mindset to evaluate options to remedy the issues and determine the appropriate solutions to drive resolution. Your job is not only to help customers with the issues they encounter, but also to help us learn as a company from each interaction, so we can make using our products as seamless as possible. See an opportunity to improve customer trust or our team's operations at scale? You'll drive this as the Voice of the Customer. What You’ll Do Deliver an outstanding customer experience: review, respond and investigate complaints submitted directly by customers. Solve customer issues efficiently, effectively, and empathetically with emphasis on custom crafting written responses that do not rely heavily on predetermined templates. Communicate with customers using email, and when appropriate, phone. Categorize and record all complaints with extreme attention to detail. Drive Continuous Improvement Engage with cross‑functional partners (Compliance, Legal, Risk, Product, Communications, etc.) to spearhead remediation of thematic problems. Improve our resources and tools available for our customers to enable customer education and streamline service. Identify areas of opportunity to improve procedures, processes, or tooling and lead project workstreams. Grow Your Financial Services Expertise Become a subject matter expert on current and emerging products as well as consumer finance policies and servicing processes, and regulatory requirements. What We Look For Bachelor’s Degree with 1+ years experience in operations, customer support, social media management, communications or related fields. Exceptional communication and writing skills with attention to detail, grammar, brand tone, and voice. An eagerness to think outside the box both in terms of solutions to complex complaints and process improvement. Resiliency with ability to bounce back from challenging interactions and manage through complexity and uncertainty. Strong customer empathy and service level focus. Proactive thinker constantly seeking improvement opportunities in work. Team player with the ability to collaborate and be sensitive of others. Base Pay Grade: D Equity Grade: 1 Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job‑related skills. Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents). In addition, employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affim Holdings, Inc. (parent company). Can base pay range per year: $55,000 – $75,000 Employees new to Affim typically start at the beginning of the pay range. Please note that sponsorship is not available for this position. Affim is proud to be a remote‑first company The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affimers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affim office. A limited number of roles remain office‑based due to the nature of their job responsibilities. Benefits Health care coverage – Affim 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 Affim at a discount. We believe it’s on us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process. [For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affim will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. By clicking “Submit Application,” you acknowledge that you have read Affim's Global Candidate Privacy Notice and hereby freely and unambiguously give informed consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of your personal information as described therein. Seniority level Associate Employment type Full‑time Job function Other #J-18808-Ljbffr