Senior Support Operations Analyst
The rest of the JD is fine, and the pay is great, but there are enough worrying cultural signals and other red flags that I feel compelled to put this in Tread Carefully.
Roles that involve reactively helping customers understand how to use a product and helping customers with technical issues. Support is usually provided via email, phone, chat, and/or social media.
The rest of the JD is fine, and the pay is great, but there are enough worrying cultural signals and other red flags that I feel compelled to put this in Tread Carefully.
The job description is thorough and well-considered, and the pay is excellent, as are the benefits (among which are 100% company-paid for employees and dependents!). This is a high-ranking Eh, It's Probably Fine.
Given the unusual schedule expectations and the very specific technical skills and experience required for this role, that salary range is not great. I mean, with the poor job market, they'll probably be able to hire someone at that comp, but. I'm not impressed. Tread Carefully.
Having said all that, this role's responsibilities are well-scoped and make sense for a Director role, as do the requirements, which distinguish it well enough from the VP position. If it weren't for the lack of salary transparency, this would still go in Eh, It's Probably Fine, but alas.
Yet again, what would otherwise be a solid Eh, It's Probably Fine is getting thrown into Tread Carefully instead because there is no comp given. I guess I have job security after all?
Damn, I think this would be a high Eh, It's Probably Fine if it had salary transparency, but it doesn't. That's a big bummer, because I think there are a lot of positive cultural signals, and it would be a fun, meaty role for the right person. I reluctantly place this in Tread Carefully.
Whatever. You know what I'd say here if I weren't so goddamned tired. You know, from all the fucking capitalism.
I mean, the comp is $140,000-$180,000, but that doesn't seem nearly enough for a role that's running CS, Ops, IT, HR, and maybe also the rest of the company?
A fun environment in which you have to remain calm and positive in all situations? Sure, that checks out.
"High stakes" in a job like this means the product doesn't work, or only works enough to be dangerous. You're there as a human shield between the customer and the product, and I promise it isn't even as fun as it sounds.
Blacklane's Careers page is pretty bare-bones, with very little actual useful information, not unlike this job description!
Look, this company sounds weird, the role sounds weird, and the fact that they can't tell you what the pay is is weird. We've got a weird club sandwich of a job listing here, is what I'm saying.
This sounds like a really interesting role with an earnest company, with some neat travel opportunities thrown in. However, since I'm still unsure of what I think about the recruitment video and there's no salary transparency, I'm going to put this in a very tentative Tread Carefully.
I'm sorry, the fuck? You want this role to build out its own completely separate product development function to fix a product so seemingly broken that even the Engineering, Product, and Design teams don't want to deal with it anymore? ARE YOU KIDDING ME
I am immediately suspicious of companies that in one breath brag about how great a workplace they are and then, in the next, make it clear that they are only being transparent about salary because they are legally required to in NY, CO, or CA. Honestly, it's fucking laughable.
This whole JD is a sloppy mess, but hey, at least the pay's good?
For roles in companies like these, upsides for some can be downsides for others: they're often really old-school working environments that tend to favor stability over rapid innovation. You skip a lot of the startup bullshit, but obviously, Business Granddaddies come with their own kind of bullshit.
That whole paragraph – the whole JD, actually – is like a parody of itself. It's a dull, meaningless, satirical mess.
My god, this job description is boring. I legit just nodded off.
The red flag/green flag guy is now levitating, surrounded by an impossibly bright red glow cloud.
I want you to imagine that red flag/green flag guy from Instagram just running back and forth across a field with a sea of red waving majestically behind him.
This role will already be leading the whole Support function, that it's not already at least a manager-level role is, frankly, absurd.
Overall, though, this job seems pretty straightforward, the benefits are fine, and the pay is good for a fairly entry-level remote role. Nice to see a solid Eh, It's Probably Fine for this week's issue.
Oh wow, how unique brightwheel is! Because most startups move like molasses and expect their people to come in and fail immediately and repeatedly.