Systems Associate

The Role: 

As an Operations Associate, you’ll be uniquely positioned to engage with team members across Carrot on exciting and impactful projects.  You will partner with colleagues within and outside of your team to continuously drive operational efficiencies and the success of the business.  Your ability to thrive in a rapidly changing and highly collaborative operational environment, strong communication, and creative problem solving skills will all position you for success in this role.  Your primary responsibilities will include:

• identifying opportunities for improvement in efficiency and quality - leveraging a combination of your experiences and business data  
• promoting effective collaboration between teams and proposing thoughtful solutions that consider all key stakeholders and drive process changes that result in increased efficiency
• managing assigned key initiatives from inception to completion; ensuring visibility into, and providing regular updates on, key initiatives and other projects to Operations leadership
• collaborating with key cross-functional partners across Carrot (e.g., Customer Success, Member Success, Commercial, Legal, Product, BI, Finance, Growth & Engagement).  
• in some cases, serving as a liaison between Operations and other departments 
• providing real-time support and troubleshooting to Operations team members as it relates to the tools and systems within your domain. 

The Team: 

The Carrot Operations team exists to drive efficiency and position our Customer-facing, Member-facing, and broader Operations teams to provide best-in-class service to their constituents.  We support these teams to achieve established team-level KPIs, by:

• Managing the critical systems and tools these teams rely on to excel at their jobs - from procurement, business relationship management, setup, to ongoing configuration and maintenance
• Driving cross-functional collaboration - within and outside of the Operations department - to support business-critical processes and tools
• Providing governance and centralized management of key business functions
• Executing on key initiatives that drive operational efficiency across all teams within the Operations department, and enabling the organization as a whole to scale in a fiscally responsible fashion 

Minimum Qualifications: 

• You have 2-3 years experience in Customer Success or business operations, with a proven track record of enabling these teams to achieve success
• You are self-motivated, take clear ownership and initiative and seek out input and assistance from subject matter experts across the organization, as needed.
• You are experienced in multi-tasking, able to change priorities quickly, and are able to operate with some level of ambiguity / limited direction - when blocked or experiencing a challenging scenario, you proactively work on finding the root cause and addressing the issue
• You demonstrate an intermediate level of proficiency with the following tools/systems:

• Atlassian tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence)   
• Data: Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Airtable
• Customer CRM (e.g., AskNicely, Catalyst, Salesforce, Zendesk)
• Reporting & analytics (e.g., Domo, Looker)
• Quality (e.g., MaestroQA)

Preferred Qualifications:

• You have experience working within an OKR framework
• Experience working closely with manager and Director-level leaders
• You have prior exposure to high-growth work environments
• You demonstrate basic to intermediate proficiency with the following tools/systems:

• Microsoft Office 365 Suite and/or Google Apps (Word/Docs and Excel/Sheets are key tools)
• Atlassian tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence)

Compensation:

Carrot offers a holistic Total Rewards package designed to support our employees in all aspects of their life inside and outside of work, including health and wellness benefits, retirement savings plans, short- and long-term incentives, parental leave, family-forming assistance, and a competitive compensation package. The starting base salary for this position will range from $75,000-$90,000. Actual compensation may vary from posted base salary depending on your confirmed job-related skills and experience.