Product Support Specialist I

Affirm; Oshawa; Remote; CAD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Affirm, a leading fintech company, is seeking a Product Support Specialist in Oshawa to provide exceptional support to merchant partners. The role involves resolving technical issues, managing customer inquiries, and communicating product updates, while contributing to an inclusive and flexible work environment.

Benefits

100% subsidized medical coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Competitive vacation and holiday schedules

Employee stock purchase plan

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in relevant industry (Tech, eCommerce, SaaS).
• Ability to handle a high volume of requests efficiently.
• Comfort working with technical systems and concepts.

Responsibilities

• Support Affirm’s merchant partners and resolve technical issues.
• Build scalable support processes based on merchant feedback.
• Manage multiple inquiries simultaneously with prioritization.

Skills

Technical troubleshooting

Communication

Empathy

Project ownership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Job description

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.

Product Support Specialists at Affirm provide fast and reliable service to our merchant business partners. This role is at the front line of our merchant support experience, and you will be responsible for ensuring that any technical or operational issues our merchants have are quickly resolved. You will become a product and payments expert, viewed by our clients as a trusted partner from whom they can reliably get quick and correct information. You will work cross-functionally with Affirm’s Sales, Client Success, Operations, and Engineering teams to provide clients with quick solutions, troubleshoot account issues, and build internal processes that scale.

What You'll Do

• Support Affirm’s merchant partners: E-Commerce retailers which utilize various platforms
• Utilize various troubleshooting techniques to resolve complicated technical or configuration issues
• Work closely with engineers to resolve technical and operational issues, and provide high-touch support to merchant partners
• Effectively manage multiple customer inquiries simultaneously, with appropriate prioritization
• Build scalable support processes and engage with feedback to streamline workflows
• Drive merchant partner communication and outreach about new features and enhancements
• Aggregate feature requests based on merchant partner feedback to guide future product planning
  
  

What We Look For

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of experience in relevant industry (Tech, eCommerce, SaaS) and/or similar role(s)
• Ability to handle a high volume of requests with efficiency and empathy
• Passion and drive to change consumer banking for the better
• Great writing. You need to be able to clearly describe technical concepts and instructions in emails, but let your personality show and use these interactions as a chance to build relationships
• A knack for understanding complicated technical systems and concepts
• A record of taking responsibility for owning projects through completion and adapting completed projects as needs change
• Insight: you can see the questions and issues that motivate our merchants and collaborators, even if they’re not plainly stated
• Nice to have: Experience working with major e-commerce platforms (Shopify, WooCommerce, etc) or exposure to web development concepts
• Nice to have: comfort working with logs and formatted data to troubleshoot issues
• Nice to have: French
• Level commensurate on experience
  
  

Pay Grade - D

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: $55,000 - $75,000

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.

Benefits

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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