Affirm

Lead, Customer Advocacy

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Affirm
$38,250 – $63,750 USD53.3% below market
Remote
mid
about 4 hours ago
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Overview

Join Affirm as a Lead in Customer Advocacy, leading a high-performing team to enhance customer experiences and resolve complex complaints. This remote, full-time role offers a salary range of $38,250 – $63,750 USD.

Responsibilities

  • •Lead and develop a high-performing team
  • •Manage, coach, and develop a team of Customer Advocacy Associates
  • •Drive team performance using key metrics such as productivity, quality, customer outcomes, and service levels
  • •Foster a high-performing, engaged team environment that operates effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment
  • •Partner with recruiting to hire, onboard, and retain top talent
  • •Deliver exceptional customer outcomes
  • •Resolve complex and highly escalated customer complaints with efficiency, empathy, and sound judgment
  • •Review and respond to sensitive, high-risk complaints, reinforcing and shaping the “Voice of Affirm”
  • •Communicate with customers across channels, including email and phone, as appropriate
  • •Represent and advocate for the complaints function in cross-functional forums to ensure consistent, high-quality customer experiences
  • •Own operational excellence across internal and external partners
  • •Own QA operations and processes, ensuring consistent, high-quality complaint handling across the team
  • •Evolve QA frameworks to maintain depth, rigor, and scalability as the organization grows
  • •Own vendor performance and accountability for third-party complaint handling, ensuring alignment with Affirm standards for quality, compliance, and customer experience
  • •Establish and monitor service level expectations (SLAs/KPIs), proactively identifying risks and driving corrective actions
  • •Oversee internal escalation workflows and act as a point of escalation for the most complex and sensitive issues
  • •Establish scalable support models and coverage strategies to maintain service levels during periods of fluctuating volume or constrained bandwidth
  • •Own capacity planning and resource allocation across internal teams, vendors, and contractors
  • •Manage and oversee contractors supporting the CAR team to ensure consistent performance and coverage
  • •Drive cross-functional impact
  • •Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives across teams such as Vendor Partners, Compliance, Legal, Risk, Product, and Communications
  • •Act as the primary operational interface with partner teams to improve intake quality, routing accuracy, and escalation effectiveness
  • •Remove operational bottlenecks and drive alignment on processes, tooling, and customer experience standards
  • •Influence product, policy, and process improvements based on customer insights and complaint trends
  • •Drive continuous improvement at scale
  • •Analyze complaint data to identify trends, root causes, and opportunities for systemic improvement
  • •Deliver measurable impact by reducing complaint rates and improving customer satisfaction
  • •Drive remediation of thematic issues through strong cross-functional collaboration
  • •Continuously improve the internal complaints management program, tools, and workflows
  • •Identify emerging risks, operational gaps, and service-level challenges, and drive end-to-end solutions with minimal direction
  • •Improve customer-facing resources and education to streamline service and reduce friction
  • •Grow your financial services expertise
  • •Serve as a subject matter expert on Affirm’s products, servicing processes, and applicable regulatory requirements
  • •Stay informed on evolving consumer finance policies and industry trends

Conditions

  • •Remote work
  • •Full-time employment
  • •Salary range: $38,250 – $63,750 USD

Requirements

  • •5+ years of people management experience in a customer operations or service delivery environment with a Bachelor’s degree; OR 3+ years with a Master’s degree; or no experience with a PhD; or equivalent experience
  • •3+ years of experience in customer support, service delivery, or complaint resolution
  • •Experience managing vendors, BPOs, or external partners
  • •Experience owning multi-domain operational functions (e.g., QA, escalations, service delivery)
  • •Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives and drive measurable outcomes
  • •Strong operational mindset with experience managing SLAs, KPIs, and service performance
  • •Ability to operate independently and drive executive-level initiatives
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