Customer Support Specialist, Mercury
$65.3-90.8k
+ Equity. Salary is dependent on location. Canadian employees (any location): CAD 66,100 – 82,600
Banking services for startups
Job no longer available
Banking services for startups
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$65.3-90.8k
+ Equity. Salary is dependent on location. Canadian employees (any location): CAD 66,100 – 82,600
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make scaling tech companies simpler with a personalized banking stack for startups, and power the next generation of companies that will shape the American industry.
Role
Who you are
- Have 2+ years of experience in a Customer Experience / Customer Support role
- Consistently exercise empathy
- Exude competence
- Always seek to answer the question behind the question
- Understand how to translate convoluted banking or engineering terminology into clear, human user communication
- Enjoy thinking about how to automate as much of your job as possible
- Keep a clean, ordered inbox
- Stay calm and collected while working on ten things at once
- Feel confident talking with startup folks in person, over chat, or on the phone
- Use creativity while working within difficult constraints
- Show kindness in the face of unpleasantness (our customers generally are really great, but they can get passionate when it comes to their businesses)
- And ideally, have a love for language
What the job involves
- Answer user questions over chat, email, and phone
- Handle user account requests, including application processing, card disputes, missing payments, card shipments, and a whole lot more
- Teach customers how to use our product (hopefully most of it is self-explanatory), and translate user confusion into product suggestions
- Identify the systemic flaws that lead to user problems
- Work with our engineering team to find and squash bugs
- Communicate our users' needs to our partner banks and work with them to improve their products and processes
- Write help articles and FAQs
- Learn our internal tools and figure out how to improve them
- Put in place processes to make your job more efficient
- Help with other compliance and customer tasks
- Create and sustain warm relationships with our users
- Help build out the customer support and ops infrastructure at Mercury
- Answer user questions over chat, email, and phone
- Handle user account requests, including application processing, card disputes, missing payments, card shipments, and a whole lot more
- Teach customers how to use our product (hopefully most of it is self-explanatory), and translate user confusion into product suggestions
- Identify the systemic flaws that lead to user problems
- Work with our engineering team to find and squash bugs
- Communicate our users' needs to our partner banks and work with them to improve their products and processes
- Write help articles and FAQs
- Learn our internal tools and figure out how to improve them
- Put in place processes to make your job more efficient
- Help with other compliance and customer tasks
- Create and sustain warm relationships with our users
- Help build out the customer support and ops infrastructure at Mercury
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Frustrated by the archaic, fee-laden banking services offered to entrepreneurs, the founders of Mercury set out to create a better solution. They envisioned a platform that was dynamic, tech-driven, and free from unnecessary fees.
Mercury delivers on this vision by automating business payment processes, offering FDIC-insured accounts, and providing full API access, empowering entrepreneurs with greater control and efficiency. This approach stands in stark contrast to traditional startup banking, which often burdens young businesses with high fees and limited functionality.
By prioritizing user experience and offering a free service tier, Mercury has attracted over 100,000 businesses and achieved a $1B valuation in 2021. As a rising unicorn in the stagnant world of startup banking, mercury is poised for continued growth, constantly adding new features and expanding its team to further disrupt the industry.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
50% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2021
$120m
SERIES B
Sep 2019
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $150.9m
Company benefits
- Health, dental, & vision
- 12+ weeks of paid parental leave
- $600 USD custom WFH equipment setup
- Unlimited vacation policy (with a mandatory minimum)
- Retirement matching up to 4% of base salary (401k/RRSP)
- Paid 6-week sabbatical after the 5-year mark
- Annual $1K USD learning & development budget
- Unlimited book budget
- Weekly $100 USD food budget
- Monthly $100 USD wellness budget
- Monthly $50 USD cellphone reimbursement
- Pet-friendly offices with free tea & lunch
Company values
- Think actively: Question processes. Give thoughtful feedback. Find the best way to do something instead of going by how it’s always been done
- Be super helpful: Practice intentionality and accountability. Go above and beyond to solve problems, and do it as a team
- Act with humility: Treat everyone with respect. Leave egos at the door
- Appreciate quality: Work with the best equipment. Avoid cutting corners. Take pride in crafting a lasting product
- Maximize efficiency: Minimize unnecessary meetings and bureaucracy. Work together to get the job done right
- Focus on product: Ask yourself how the product can be better today than it was yesterday
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Jason Zhang
(COO)Studied Biology at Stanford before spending over 4 years at Heyzap in Business Development.
Immad Akhund
(CEO)Graduated from the University of Cambridge, then worked as a Software Developer at Aquila and Bloomberg. Also founded Clickpass and Heyzap, and was a Part-time Partner at Y Combinator.
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