Member, Operations (Customer Service) at Prospa Technology Limited

Prospa is a bank for Nigerian entrepreneurs. We’re building the financial operating system for African entrepreneurs and businesses. Using our intuitive and beautifully designed mobile and web application, entrepreneurs are able to manage all their business and banking in one place.

We are backed by Y Combinator, and some of the most well respected and prolific investors, builders and operators in the US, Africa and Europe like Immad Akund (CEO @ mercury.com), Microtraction and many others.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Member, Operations (Customer Service)

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

The Role

You’ll be the go to person for delivering an outstanding customer experience, as well as developing and engaging the wider member community.
This will include a mix of user operations, support, relationship building and outreach. Internally, you’ll be the main champion for customer needs and work closely with our engineers and product designers to push the customer experience forward.
You’ll need to understand how our product works in detail. Banks have a lot of moving pieces, so this is harder than it might seem. You’ll also need to be good with words and extremely competent.

Job Responsibilities
Here are some things you’ll do on the job:

Review companies that are signing up.
Help get applications processed as quickly as possible.
Figure out internal tools and processes to make your job more efficient.
Create and sustain great relationships with the companies and business owners we’re serving.
Work with engineering and product to squash bugs and improve the user experience.
Answer questions over chat, email, and telephone, social media
Teach customers how to use our product (onsite, through written content, webinars etc).
Translate customer needs into prioritized product development.
Help build out the customer support and ops infrastructure Proactively reaching out to community members doing amazing things, to see how we can help amplify their businesses.
Create and moderate online forums, engage and motivate existing communities.
Coming up with creative ideas for growing the community through engagement.

Experience & Personal Specification

Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree and/or 3+ years in customer success role
Consistently exercise empathy.
Have a strong product sense.
Communicate ideas clearly across teams.
Be comfortable learning about companies with complex, technical products.
Enjoy thinking about how to automate as much of your job as possible.
Have strong organizational skills.
Stay calm and collected while working on ten things at once.
Feel confident talking with entrepreneurs who excel in their fields 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)
Social media skills a plus.