Employer: Yelp
Yelp is looking for a well-rounded and well-organized individual to join our User Operations team. The ideal candidate has a keen eye for detail (to catch inconsistencies or red flags as you evaluate businesses/licenses), a ready appetite for new information (you’ll need to get familiar with the laws and regulations governing myriad industries), and a sharp memory (as you track and record the outcomes of your research).
In this role you will support new and existing advertising products by evaluating businesses for inclusion through ensuring their good standing and measuring claims against them. Documentation, organization and a ready command of our guidelines will be essential as you’ll be called upon to communicate this information to different audiences: business owners, customers, and various internal stakeholders. You’ll become a subject matter expert for Yelp’s Verified License program and will build upon your research skills to ensure that businesses are both legally licensed and that they are in good standing with other government/non-government agencies and boards.
In this role, you’ll be on the forefront of Yelp’s efforts to improve business verification for our users. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to get a wide perspective on how different businesses in different industries operate, and what is required of them to do so legally. You’ll get exposure to different facets of business such as day to day operations, quality assurance, project management and execution, and more.
This is a full-time remote role based in the United States.
Where You Come In:
- Evaluate businesses against established criteria to determine their eligibility for our Verified License program
- Resolve claims, answer questions and communicate with businesses applying for the program
- Coordinate with stakeholders in other teams and departments to ensure prompt resolution of cases
What it Takes to Succeed:
- Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent 4-year degree)
- Tech fluency – you should be comfortable operating primarily (or exclusively!) online through a variety of tools and platforms. You know how to troubleshoot your own questions before looping in the IT team.
- The ability to calibrate your message to a variety of technical- and nontechnical audiences, always remaining clear, precise, and diplomatic.
- The patience and focus to deliver consistent, quality work. Our team works on highly visible and impactful products, where it’s critical to take an extra moment to ensure that everything is correct.
- A positive, can-do attitude – you’re ready to pitch in on new projects and help your teammates be their bestTenacity – you can make sense of novel problems and work through them until the end
- Comfortable with role shifting as priorities shift
Nice to have:
- Experience using spreadsheets like Google Sheets or Excel to sort through large datasets
- Fluent in legalese – you can make sense of laws and regulations to determine what they mean for real-life consumers and businesses
- Solid online sleuthing skills – Ability to navigate government datasets/databases
- Basic knowledge of what Yelp does and why (knowledge of Yelp Products and Product flows is a plus)
What You’ll Get:
- Available your first day: Full medical, vision, and dental (Employee-only plans available at no cost to the employee)
- 15 days PTO per year for first 2 years of employment (accrual begins on date of hire); number of PTO days increases after 2 years of tenure, 5 paid wellness days, 12 paid holidays, 1 floating holiday
- Up to 14 weeks of parental leave
- Monthly wellness reimbursement
- Health Savings, Flexible Spending and Dependent Care accounts
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match
- Employee stock purchase plan