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Operations Associate (User Support)

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Job type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote
Level
Not listed
Department
Customer Service
Experience
Not listed
Posted
Aug 16, 2026

About the role

You will

  • Be the first person participants and plan administrators talk to, answering questions over Intercom and phone with speed, accuracy, and genuine care
  • Guide participants through account setup, enrollment, deferral changes, beneficiaries, rollovers, and distributions, and explain how a 401(k) actually works to people who have never had one
  • Resolve issues end to end, escalating cleanly to Onboardings, Customer Success, or Engineering when a question turns into a problem, and owning it until it is closed
  • Design and build the macros, help center content, saved replies, and AI-powered support systems that let one person resolve the volume of many
  • Turn recurring questions into permanent fixes, feeding clear, prioritized signal to product and engineering about what confuses users and why
  • Own the quality bar for support, including response times, resolution rates, and the tone that makes a retirement account feel approachable rather than intimidating
  • Process participant money movement end to end, including withdrawals, outbound rollovers, and loans, preparing paperwork, coordinating with custodial and vendor partners, and tracking transactions until funds settle
  • Work directly with external partners such as custodians, rollover facilitators, plan document providers, and prior recordkeepers to resolve issues that live outside our own systems

Required Competencies

  • Proven experience in a high-volume customer support or user operations role, handling both written and phone channels
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication, with a talent for making complicated financial topics simple without being condescending or imprecise
  • Sound judgment on when to answer, when to escalate, and when a question is really a compliance or money-movement issue

Preferred Competencies

  • Working knowledge of 401(k) plans, retirement accounts, or another regulated financial product
  • Hands-on experience with Intercom, Zendesk, or similar support platforms
  • Experience in fintech, benefits, HR technology, or early-stage technology companies

Cultural Fit

  • Passionate about solving big social problems with pragmatic solutions
  • Aptitude for complexity and curiosity for financial markets
  • Believes in building leverage, using AI and automation to scale impact as the company grows rather than defaulting to headcount
  • Genuinely enjoys helping people, and treats every conversation as someone's retirement rather than a ticket
  • Enjoys learning new tools and selecting the right one for each job
  • Adaptable and open to contributing across the operation as the team evolves
  • Autonomous, high agency, accountable, and thrives in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills, working effectively with a distributed, cross-functional team