About Upstart
Upstart is the leading AI lending marketplace partnering with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit. By leveraging Upstart's AI marketplace, Upstart-powered banks and credit unions can have higher approval rates and lower loss rates across races, ages, and genders, while simultaneously delivering the exceptional digital-first lending experience their customers demand. More than 80% of borrowers are approved instantly, with zero documentation to upload.
Upstart is a digital-first company, which means that most Upstarters live and work anywhere in the United States. However, we also have offices in San Mateo, California; Columbus, Ohio; and Austin, Texas.
Most Upstarters join us because they connect with our mission of enabling access to effortless credit based on true risk. If you are energized by the impact you can make at Upstart, we’d love to hear from you!
The Team
Our IT team manages support, projects, and initiatives for technology at Upstart. From help desk inquiries to onboarding and off-boarding employees, troubleshooting employees’ network connections, system and application access, remote connections, and overall computer set-up.
As an IT Support Analyst you would play an instrumental role in ensuring that our employees have the technology they need to be successful and productive in their roles.
How you’ll make an impact:
- Keep help desk inquiries and requests organized and up to date via internal ticketing system (Jira Service Desk).
- Onboarding and off-boarding of new employees, temporary employees, vendors, and contractors.
- Provide IT or application training to employees to ensure they have the technological resources and knowledge of how to use those resources to accomplish their responsibilities.
- Provide excellent service to internal and external clients; ensuring they feel that their problems are understood and addressed with minimal impact to the clients’ productivity.
- Document support tasks and create processes when needed in order to keep the IT team on the same page with how things are done, and that processes can be repeated or trained to others.
- Identify technological issue trends to proactively prevent problems and develop processes to resolve.
- Respond to help desk inquiries in a succinct and meaningful way.
- Resolve issues with Okta, GSuite, Atlassian, Slack, etc.
What we’re looking for:
- Minimum requirements:
- Have 2+ years of experience in a technical support or customer service environment supporting Mac OS.
- Have 2+ years of work experience in first and second level support of systems such as SSO (Okta), GSuite, Atlassian, Slack, MDM (Jamf), Zoom, and Meraki.
- You are able to independently perform basic problem determination and root cause analysis regarding network, access, and general IT issues.
- Have experience or involvement with IT projects or large initiatives.
- Have proficient understanding of internal and external customer requirements.
- Have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Are able to work with external vendors for services and support
- Preferred qualifications:
- Have strong familiarity with IT Operations and cloud applications.
- You are able to create new support workflows.
Position Location - 5 days a week into Columbus office
Time Zone Requirements - This team operates on the East/West Coast time zones.
Travel Requirements - This team has regular on-site collaboration sessions. These occur 3 days per Quarter at the San Mateo or Columbus office. If you need to travel to make these meetups, Upstart will cover all travel related expenses.
This is a Non-Exempt position. Employees in this position are paid an hourly pay rate, on a bi-weekly basis, and are eligible to receive overtime pay for any hours worked over 40 in a work week, or over 8 in a work day if required by state law.
Upstart is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to ensuring that underrepresented classes receive better access to affordable credit, and are just as committed to embracing diversity and inclusion in our hiring practices. We celebrate all cultures, backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, and know that we can only become better together.
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What We Do
Upstart is the leading AI lending marketplace, connecting millions of consumers to more than 100 banks and credit unions that leverage Upstart’s AI models and cloud applications to deliver superior credit products. With Upstart's AI, lenders can approve more borrowers at lower rates across races, ages, and genders, while delivering the exceptional digital-first experience customers demand. More than 80% of borrowers are approved instantly, with zero documentation to upload. Founded in 2012, Upstart’s platform includes personal loans, automotive retail and refinance loans, home equity lines of credit, and small-dollar “relief” loans.
If you are energized by the impact you think you could make at Upstart, we'd love to hear from you!
Why Work With Us
Connection to our mission creates a special environment where people feel passionately about the impact they make in the world. Upstart is fast-paced, and we encourage ownership at all levels of the organization. As a result, culture at Upstart is driven by Upstarters. Upstarters are proactive, talented, multi-dimensional and collaborative.
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Employees work remotely.
Upstart has a digital-first model enabling most Upstarters can live and work anywhere in the U.S. We also offer in-person options from our office locations in San Mateo, California; Columbus, Ohio; and Austin, Texas.
