Operations Associate (User Support)

Basiccapital
United States
RemoteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Geared toward mid-level professionals comfortable with resolving complex financial queries end to end, with a preference for candidates who thrive in remote, cross-functional fintech environments.

Best fit for

  • Mid-level professionals with experience in high-volume customer support and a knack for simplifying financial concepts
    — “exceptional written and verbal communication, with a talent for making complicated financial topics simple
  • Candidates who enjoy using AI and automation to build scalable support solutions
    — “Believes in building leverage, using AI and automation to scale imp
  • Individuals who are adaptable and can contribute across operations as the team evolves
    — “Adaptable and open to contributing across the operation as the team evolves

Things to consider

  • This role demands ownership of support quality metrics like resolution rates and response times
    — “Owning the quality bar for support, including response times, resolution rates
  • Candidates must be prepared to process participant money movement with precision and compliance awareness
    — “Process participant money movement end to end, including withdrawals, outbound rollovers

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in resolving complex financial issues and improving support systems through automation
    — “Design and build the macros, help center content, saved replies, and AI-powered support systems
  • Showcase a track record of turning recurring questions into product improvements
    — “Turn recurring questions into permanent fixes, feeding clear, prioritized signal to product
  • Demonstrate ability to handle both written and phone support channels with equal proficiency
    — “Proven experience in a high-volume customer support or user operations role, handling both written and phone channels
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · MediumAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · IndividualLevel · Junior

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • answered customer questions
  • resolved issues
  • designed support systems
Typical background
customer supportuser operations

Skills & requirements

Required

Customer SupportAccount SetupIssue ResolutionMacro DesignQuality Assurance

Preferred

401(k) PlansIntercomZendeskFintechEarly-stage Technology

About the role

Original posting from Basiccapital via Ashby

ABOUT BASIC CAPITAL

Basic Capital is a fintech company disrupting America's $1T retirement industry by building the mortgage for retirement, unlocking market ownership, and making wealth accessible to every American. Our mission is to create products, platforms, and a credit marketplace that power a fundamentally new retirement system.

Our founding team includes leaders from Goldman Sachs, Uber, Block, Stripe, and Robinhood. We're backed by top investors such as Lux Capital, Forerunner Ventures, BoxGroup, SVAngel, Inspired Capital, and Henry Kravis. Based in Tribeca, NYC, we're assembling a lean, high-performance team committed to reducing wealth inequality. This role is fully remote within the United States.

For more information, visit Basic Capital's website https://www.basiccapital.com/.

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

Source: Basiccapital careers (Ashby)

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