Lead, Customer Advocacy

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”. 

• Communicate with customers using email, and when appropriate, phone.

• Represent the complaints team in working groups and project work streams as a subject matter expert to ensure consistent and delightful customer service is maintained. 

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

• Be 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

• 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