Lead, Customer Advocacy

2 days ago

Toronto, Canada Affirm Full time

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.

**About The Role**

Affirm's Customer Advocacy and Retention (CAR) team houses our customer advocacy experts. When customers share their painful experiences with Affirm, the CAR team has invaluable insight into the breaking points of our products, processes, or policies. As we learn from and champion for these customers, we use their voices to improve customer experience, deliver fair outcomes and repair relationships.

As a Customer Advocacy Associate Lead, you'll be empowered as the Voice of Affirm to use exceptional service and product expertise to solve highly complex complaints and lead a team of Customer Advocacy Associates. 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 and appropriate solutions to drive resolution. This role serves not only to help customers with the issues they encounter, but to help Affirm learn from each interaction, making our product 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.

**Key Attributes**
- Experience as a people manager
- Commitment to service delivery and customer centric resolutions
- Process improvement mindset
- Instinctual problem-solving skills
- Strong critical thinking and analytical skills
- Sound judgment and strong sense of accountability
- Ability to drive initiatives with multiple stakeholders
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, to concisely and accurately communicate complex topics

**What you'll do**

**_ Manage a team of Customer Advocacy Associates_**
- _Encouraging and managing strong performance using multiple performance metrics like cases per hour/day, average handle time, quality assurance and others to gauge success_
- _Engaging and motivating the team to operate effectively through fast-paced change_
- _Working with recruiting team to hire and onboard new team members and maintain a high performing team_
- _Vigilant focus on potential policy and procedure risks as it pertains to complaint review and response process_

**_Deliver exceptional customer experience_**
- Solve complex customer issues efficiently, effectively, and empathetically.
- Review and respond to highly escalated complaints in a timely manner exemplifying empathy to help reinforce and shape the "voice of Affirm".

**_Drive continuous improvement_**
- Hyper-focused on cross-functional collaboration to drive resolution and improvement to customer issues. Engaging with cross functional partners (Compliance, Legal, Risk, Product, Communications, etc.) to spearhead remediation of thematic problems.
- Naturally driven to improve processes to more effectively service our customers.
- Improve our internal complaints management program.
- Strong data analysis skills to review and report on complaint data to find trending pain points, and identify product opportunities.
- Improve our resources and tools available for our customers to enable customer education and streamline service.

**_Grow your financial services expertise_**

**What we look for**
- 1+ years of people management experience in a customer operations role
- 3+ years experience in customer support/service delivery role
- Independent worker, motivated to execute without instruction or supervision
- Resiliency with ability to bounce back from challenging interactions and manage through complexity and uncertainty
- Team player. Enjoys working in a collaborative environment and knows how to effectively communicate across multiple teams and levels
- 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
- Strong customer empathy and service level focus
- Proactive thinker constantly seeking improvement opportunities in work

Pay Grade - I
Equity Grade - 3

Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. 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, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company).

CAN base pay range per year: $90,000 - $130,000

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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