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 Affirm, Affirm has 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 Associate II, you'll be empowered as the Voice of Affirm to use exceptional empathy and product expertise to solve highly complex complaints filed with State and Federal Regulators. 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. The team works directly with Regulatory bodies until these complaints are deemed resolved. Your job is not only to investigate, remediate, and address Regulatory Complaints, but to help us learn as a company from each escalation, 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 a member of the Customer Advocacy and Retention (CAR) team.
What You'll Do:
Deliver an outstanding customer experience
Review, respond and investigate complaints received directly from State and Federal Regulators
Solve customer issues efficiently, effectively, and empathetically with an emphasis on quality, accuracy, and thoroughness
Communicate with Regulators using email
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.
Identify areas of opportunity to improve procedures, processes, or tooling and lead project workstreams.
Grow your financial services expertise
What We Look For:
Minimum 1 year 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
Pay Grade - C
Equity Grade - 1
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 equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.)
CAN base pay range per year: $47,000 - $67,000
Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
#LI-Remote
Affirm 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. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.
We're extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:
- 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
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, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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