Ethos is a leading life insurance technology company on a mission to protect families by democratizing access to life insurance and empowering agents at scale. With its robust three-sided technology platform, Ethos is transforming the life insurance experience for consumers, agents, and carriers alike. Ethos offers instant, accessible products and a seamless online process that requires no medical exams and just a few health questions; it eliminates traditional barriers, making it easier than ever for everyone to protect their families. Ethos is redefining how life insurance is bought, sold, and underwritten.
About the Role:
Ethos is looking for a Customer Support Associate who thrives on helping customers and solving problems as well as working in a dynamic environment. Creating a positive customer experience is of the utmost importance to Ethos and will continue to determine our success in the life insurance industry.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide excellent customer service via email, live chat, SMS, and phone, and providing answers to incoming inquiries relating to all Ethos products
- Develop strong understanding and knowledge of Ethos products and processes in order to support customers and act as a resource for internal stakeholders
- Identify customer needs and process requests efficiently and effectively within defined service levels
- Build rapport and gain the respect of customers through clear and transparent communication
- Develop and maintain productive relationships with sales, underwriting, and development teams in order to triage and resolve customer issues
- Meet individual and customer support team goals and objectives
- Identify opportunities for process improvements for assigned functions, collaborating with management to implement agreed upon solutions
Qualifications and Skills:
- 1-2 years experience in customer support, customer success, operations, or related role
- Experience in life insurance or related industry a plus, but not required
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- Proficiency working with Salesforce or equivalent support/help desk software
- Strong intellectual curiosity and drive to solve problems
- Excellent time management and prioritization necessary to balance all responsibilities
- Can adapt to changes quickly
- Adaptable to change and ability to change tasks quickly with maintaining attention to detail
- Excellent phone presence and written communications skills
- Ability to work independently as well as collaborate with various departments
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Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. At Ethos we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace.
We are an equal opportunity employer.. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the SF Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrests and conviction records.
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What We Do
Ethos makes getting life insurance instant and easy. Our approach blends technology and industry expertise, and the human touch to deliver an incredible life insurance experience.
Ethos has raised over $400 million of capital from Sequoia, Accel, Google Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Softbank and more. We are one of the largest U.S. life insurance issuers. We continue to scale quickly and are looking for passionate Ethosaurs to protect the next million families.
Why Work With Us
Ethos is powered by people from all kinds of backgrounds. We embrace a one-team, one-dream mentality, while encouraging Ethosaurs to speak their mind and act boldly, even in the absence of consensus. We believe in decentralized decision making - not decisions made by committee.
Here you can have an impact and true ownership over your successes.
