Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities
As a Product Operations Specialist at Alaan you will live at the intersection of operations, customer experience, and technical support. Product Operations Specialists are tasked with helping everyday users use our products to the fullest by providing support and deep technical knowledge. Due to the extensive client exposure, this role is also in a prime location to create content about our products and work with our Design and Engineering teams to improve them.
What you'll do
- Build relationships with users, by being the first point of contact for Customer interaction (Whatsapp, Email, Phone)
- Understand the needs of Customers and propose solutions to meet those unique business needs
- Proactively and diligently follow up on issues raised by Customers
- Thoroughly understand product and expense processes on the Customer side and make improvement suggestions
- Balance autonomy in solving problems with awareness of escalation necessities
- Work cross-functionally to improve the product/experience for the Customer
- Be the product expert to the Customer and the Customer expert to the product team
- Help Alaan continuously improve the way it serves its Customers
Desired Candidate Profile
3+ years experience in similar roles at prominent start-ups
- Background in Fintech or B2B SaaS would be an added advantage
- Strong communication skills, both written and oral, and a high degree of confidence in speaking with Customers
- Helping others succeed and improve gives you energy
- You are trustworthy and others perceive you as trustworthy
- You can own a problem end-to-end, understanding it, breaking it down, and identifying logical next steps until resolution
- Very organized and meticulous (no customer issue falls through the cracks)
- You love working against a goal - and you will independently identify what is needed to reach the goal
- Demonstrated ability to work solo as well as being a productive team member
- Strong fluency in both Arabic and English, both written and oral