Customer Success Agent | YC Backed Education Startup

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Role | Help manage the day-to-day operations at Strive

There are 100+ live 1-1 classes happening each week, and you'll be responsible for making sure they run smoothly, so parents, teachers, and students all have a joyful experience at Strive. As we grow strivemath.org, this role is also becoming a first line of technical support for external math teachers using the platform.

This involves:

  • Providing real-time customer support to parents, students, and teachers via WhatsApp, email, and phone, with a customer success mindset: understanding what someone actually needs, not just answering the literal question
  • Building relationships with parents and finding ways Strive can provide more value to them
  • Managing class scheduling across time zones: reschedules, cancellations, and the occasional puzzle
  • Account management: payments, renewals, and refunds
  • Acting as a first responder for technical hiccups as our math platform reaches more teachers: triaging what's gone wrong with an automation or a piece of data, fixing what you can, and flagging clearly what you can't
  • Occasionally engaging with inbound leads to help convert them into paying customers
  • Recommending and documenting process improvements
  • Other general ops and customer success projects as they come up

You’ll thrive in this role if

  • You think in terms of customer success, not just customer service. You look past the literal request to understand what someone actually needs, and the best outcome for them and for Strive.
  • You're comfortable using AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, and similar) to move faster, but you don't let AI think for you. You can tell when a draft doesn't sound like a real person, and you know how to fix it.
  • You like data and systems. When an automation breaks or a number looks wrong, you're curious rather than intimidated, and you have the logical chops to work out what likely happened.
  • Numbers don't scare you. You're comfortable with math at least up to a grade 6 level, confident enough to talk shop with a math teacher or sketch out a manipulative.
  • You work smarter, not harder. If there's a tool or shortcut that saves time without cutting corners, you've probably already found it, in your work or your own life.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree
  • Excellent command of English, communication, and writing skills, including the ability to write warm, human messages, whether or not AI helped with the first draft
  • Meticulous attention to detail and strong organisational skills. (Make sure to include the word "sherlock" somewhere in your application when we ask what inspired you to apply for this role.)
  • Customer-focused mindset, with strong problem-solving and creative thinking skills
  • Comfortable with logical/analytical thinking: able to look at a spreadsheet, automation log, or error message and reason through what's likely wrong, even without a coding background
  • Comfortable with math at least up to a grade 6 level
  • Independent, strong sense of urgency, flexible, adaptable to change, comfortable managing time zones
  • Reliable and available within Strive's customer service hours (see Logistics below); this is non-negotiable
  • Familiar with tools like Notion, Airtable, Google Suite, Stripe, Discord, or a willingness and ability to learn new tools quickly
  • Suitable experience: customer success, client support, customer service agent, operations associate, account manager
  • A passion for education and Strive's vision for its future

Bonus

  • Has dabbled in "vibe coding": building small tools or automations with AI coding assistants, even without a formal dev background
  • Experience with no-code/low-code tools like Airtable, Make, or Zapier
  • 1+ years of working experience, ideally in education/edtech, a startup, or a remote environment
  • Previous experience in a similar role
  • Clear judgement, forward thinker, solution-focused, fast learner

Why should you apply

  • 🌈 Grow with a highly passionate and diverse team from all over the world that is committed to making learning and work joyful
  • 💬 Have a voice and a space to bring your ideas to life in a small, non-hierarchical team
  • 🏆 Join an operations team that is committed to excellence, which includes accepting and learning from our mistakes and working as a team to improve
  • 🥇 Be a part of an education revolution, we’re one of the first and only companies in the world to teach math through code.

Logistics

  • 40 hours per week, within shift hours structured around our most popular lesson times (Singapore afternoons and weekends)
  • Preferred Locations: Asia/Singapore/Philippines timezone
    (Candidates who can support the GMT+8 timezone within 9am-9pm SGT are welcome.)
  • Work from wherever you’re most comfortable - you would need your own reliable laptop, internet and power (including backup power and internet if applicable)

Pay

S$800-S$1000/mo

Apply

  1. Fill in this form (~10 mins): https://airtable.com/shrTeaESgDo9B3302?prefill_applyingFor\[R\]=Customer Success Agent , including a link to, or short write-up of, one piece of work you're proud of, and a quick story about a time you used AI or technology to make something in your own life easier (only applicants who submit the form will be considered)
  2. Record a short video explaining one of your responses to the form (5-10 mins)
  3. Intro Call (45 mins)
  4. Take-home project (2hrs)
  5. Long Interview (60 minutes)
  6. Reference checks
  7. Part-time trial offer, with a full-time offer to follow if it's a great fit on both sides

Only applicants who submit the form will be considered