Unit21UN

Customer Support Specialist

Unit21 offers a no-code platform for risk and compliance operations, specializing in fraud prevention and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance for financial institutions and various businesses.

Unit21

Employee count: 51-200

Salary: 60k-70k USD

United States only

This is a remote position.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Customer Support Specialist to join our team at Unit21. You will drive value across our customer base, engaging with customers mainly through ticket communication. This may include assisting with troubleshooting, best practices, technical support, and helping users derive maximum value from our product.

What you will be doing:

Serve as front line to all incoming customer support tickets and ownership of own ticket queue

  • Seek to comprehensively understand customer problems, needs, and priorities in order to efficiently deliver the best customer experience possible

  • Gain a comprehensive understanding of the Unit21 platform in order to provide first level resolution when possible

  • Prioritize assigned tickets accordingly based on severity of ticket

  • Review inquiries to troubleshoot and determine root cause. Typical actions may include:

    • Troubleshooting detection models, alerts, and case management issues on platform

    • Identifying bugs or feature requests

    • Providing best practices on detection models to reduce false positive alerts and processing time

    • Investigating operation workflow issues

    • Investigating file upload and download issues

    • Sharing and escalating requests to other internal teams

  • Working to maintain the SLAs of Customer Support

  • Partner with internal teams, including:

    • Customer Success, for customer communication alignment, troubleshooting and de-escalation of customer issues

    • Product, for sharing product feedback and new feature requests

    • Engineering, for bug fixes and outages

What we’re looking for:

  • 2+ years of experience in customer facing roles, including client services and technical support

  • Ability to communicate complex technical problems in a human tone and customer friendly language

  • Strong interpersonal skills required to function both in a team environment and to build relationships with our customers

  • Generalist technical background with demonstrated technical aptitude and problem solving skills

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

  • Sense of curiosity to understand our evolving offering and the actual customer requirement

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience


Bonus Points:

  • Experience with ticketing systems: Zendesk, Shortcut

  • Fintech experience

Compensation:

The standard base pay range for this role is $60,000 - $70,000 Annually. This base pay range does not include variable compensation including potential commissions, bonuses or other financial or equity incentives.

Unit21 is an equal opportunity employer, we encourage all to apply, even if you do not meet each requirement above. We are building a diverse, inclusive workforce and hope you will join us!

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Unit21 is an equal opportunity employer, we encourage all to apply, even if you do not meet each requirement above. We are building a diverse, inclusive workforce and hope you will join us!

What we can offer you:

  • Competitive salary and pre-IPO stock options

  • 100% company-paid medical, dental and vision insurance (for employee)

  • Optional HSA and FSA medical reimbursement accounts

  • Unlimited paid time off

  • Generous leave programs for life events

  • 401(k)

  • Charity matching

  • Annual Learning & Development stipend

  • One-time Home office set-up stipend

  • Commuter benefits

  • Happy hours and team-building events

  • Great office space in the San Francisco Financial District

  • Fully stocked kitchen

  • Lunch provided in SF office multiple times a week

  • A great company culture with a strong emphasis on diversity, equity and inclusion

About Unit21:

Unit21 stops bad actors by leveraging data to deliver justice and safety in the world. We protect businesses against adversaries engaging in money laundering, fraud, and other sophisticated risks by offering no-code infrastructure to model, detect, and remediate suspicious activity. Our customers range from large Fortune 500 companies to high-potential, pre-launch startups. We have reported over USD $2 billion in fraud and laundered money to the US government using our software.

We are a rapidly growing Series C startup, having raised close to $100m from Google, Tiger Global, ICONIQ Capital, Jack Dorsey, Diane Greene, and other leading VCs. Our team believes deeply in fostering individual ownership, iterative product development, and empathetic communication. There are many challenging problems to solve in this industry, and a huge opportunity for our software to empower companies to define a new standard of eliminating bad behavior on their platforms.

We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. Unit21 is committed to creating an inclusive culture, and we celebrate diversity of all kinds.

*Remote work limited to the following states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York. North Carolina,Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington.*



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Unit21 is a company dedicated to combating financial crime through its innovative no-code risk and compliance platform. Founded in 2018 by Trisha Kothari and Clarence Chio, the company aims to protect businesses from a variety of sophisticated financial risks, including money laundering, fraud, and other illicit activities. Unit21's platform is designed to be highly flexible and customizable, empowering risk and compliance teams to model, detect, and remediate suspicious activity without requiring extensive engineering resources. The company's core offerings include transaction monitoring, identity verification (KYC/KYB), case management, operations management, analytics, and reporting. This comprehensive suite of tools enables businesses to streamline their risk and compliance operations, enhance fraud prevention, and ensure adherence to regulatory requirements.

Unit21 serves a diverse clientele, ranging from large Fortune 500 companies to emerging startups across various sectors such as financial institutions, fintech companies, marketplaces, neobanks, payment processors, and cryptocurrency businesses. The company emphasizes a collaborative approach to fighting financial crime, highlighted by initiatives like the Fintech Fraud DAO, a consortium allowing FinTechs to share data to identify and prevent fraud. Unit21's technology has demonstrated significant impact, with customers reporting substantial reductions in fraud loss, false positives, and investigation times. The company has received significant backing from prominent investors, including Google, Tiger Global Management, and South Park Commons, underscoring its potential and growth in the regtech and cybersecurity spaces. Unit21 is committed to continuous innovation, regularly launching new features such as AI-powered check fraud prevention and real-time monitoring capabilities to address evolving threats in the financial ecosystem. The company's mission is to unite fraud fighters and AML heroes to restore safety and opportunity to the financial world.

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