Customer Support Specialist

San Francisco, Portland + 1 more

About the role

<p>Mercury is building a complete finance stack for startups. Since we launched Mercury in 2019, our customer base has grown to over 300,000 startups and small businesses from all around the world. This turns out to be a pretty wild endeavor, so we’re looking to bring someone smart onto our Customer Support team to help us out.</p> <p>As a member of our Customer Support team, you’ll make sure our users are charmed by warmth and competence when they have questions or needs that aren’t being met by our product. You’ll radiate intelligence while exercising your best human qualities, like compassion and empathy, even in the face of frustration. </p> <p>You’ll need to understand how our product works in detail. Banking* has a lot of moving pieces, so this is harder than it might seem. Finding efficient, elegant solutions for problems stemming from the oft-convoluted U.S. financial system isn’t always easy, but if you’re good at your job, our users will never know it.</p> <p><em>*Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.</em></p> <h3><strong>What You’ll Do: </strong></h3> <ul> <li>Answer user questions over chat, email, and phone</li> <li>Handle user account requests, including application processing, card disputes, missing payments, card shipments, and a whole lot more</li> <li>Teach customers how to use our product (hopefully most of it is self-explanatory), and translate user confusion into product suggestions</li> <li>Identify the systemic flaws that lead to user problems</li> <li>Work with our engineering team to find and squash bugs</li> <li>Communicate our users' needs to our partner banks and work with them to improve their products and processes</li> <li>Write help articles and FAQs</li> <li>Learn our internal tools and figure out how to improve them</li> <li>Put in place processes to make your job more efficient</li> <li>Help with other compliance and customer tasks</li> <li>Create and sustain warm relationships with our users</li> <li>Help build out the customer support and ops infrastructure at Mercury</li> </ul> <h3><strong>What You Bring:</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Have 2+ years of experience in a Customer Experience / Customer Support role</li> <li>Consistently exercise empathy</li> <li>Always seek to answer the question behind the question</li> <li>Understand how to translate complex terminology into clear, human user communication</li> <li>Enjoy thinking about how to automate as much of your job as possible</li> <li>Keep a clean, ordered inbox</li> <li>Stay calm and collected while working on ten things at once</li> <li>Feel confident talking with startup folks in person, over chat, or on the phone</li> <li>Use creativity while working within difficult constraints</li> <li>Show kindness in the face of unpleasantness (our customers generally are really great, but they can get passionate when it comes to their businesses)</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Would be nice if you: </strong></h3> <ul> <li>Have experience working in retail branch banking </li> <li>Are passionate about uncovering customer needs </li> <li>Enjoy solving customer problems and proactively offering solutions to unmet needs</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Schedule Information:</strong></h3> <ul> <li><strong>Required: be available to work at least one weekend day per 5 day shift </strong></li> <li>We are currently hiring for multiple shifts. Openings will be covered early in the interview process</li> <li>Your working schedule will be fixed - this is long-term commitment, not a rotating shift</li> </ul> <p>Mercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Mercury are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.</p> <p>#LI-RP1</p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p><strong>Total Rewards</strong><br>The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and

benefits.</p> <p>Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable

compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.</p> <p>Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following<strong>:</strong></p></div><div class="title">US employees in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area:</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$48,100</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$58,400 USD</span></div></div><div class="pay-input"><div class="title">US employees outside of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area:</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$43,300</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$52,500 USD</span></div></div></div>

About Mercury

Mercury is a financial technology company that provides digital banking and financial workflow tools primarily for startups and small businesses. Its platform combines business checking and savings accounts, payment processing, invoicing, bill pay, expense management, and cash flow monitoring within a single interface. Mercury works with partner banks to offer banking services and FDIC-insured deposit accounts while focusing on the software and operational experience for its customers. The company also provides corporate cards, treasury products, accounting integrations, and automation features designed to support day-to-day financial operations. In addition to serving startups, Mercury has expanded its offerings to include consumer banking products and broader financial management capabilities for growing businesses.

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Job details

Salary

$43,100 - $58,400

Location

San Francisco, Portland + 1 more

Company

NameMercury
IndustryAccounting
Team Size5

Funding

Total raised

$300M

Last stage

Growth

Investors

Sequoia Capital
Coatue
Andreessen Horowitz
CRV
Spark Capital

Founders

JZ

Jason Zhang

Co-founder & COO

Immad Akhund

Immad Akhund

Co-founder & CEO

LinkedIn
MT

Max Tagher

Co-founder

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01

Confirm the fit

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02

I pitch you to the company

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03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.