Zinc Customer Operations Temp

Description

6-month contract, with the potential to extend or convert to a permanent role

As a Customer Success Operations Executive, you’ll be at the heart of Zinc’s user experience, making sure every interaction leaves our candidates and partners feeling supported, reassured, and valued. ✨
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This is an operational, task-based role within our Customer Success team. You’ll handle candidate queries via email, proactively reach out to candidates, update our systems, and liaise with partners and third-party providers, all to make sure background checks are completed smoothly and efficiently.

No two days are the same. Some days you’ll work through a mix of different checks, completing actions in the background to support our customers. Other days you’ll be updating systems and proactively reaching out to candidates. At the core of it all? Creating meaningful, delightful experiences that make our users’ lives easier.

This is the perfect job for you if you are:
✅ A natural problem solver: You break down complex issues into simple, actionable steps.
✅ A people-first thinker: You know support is about building trust, not just answering questions
✅ Tech-savvy: You’re comfortable navigating digital tools and helping others do the same.
✅ A strong written communicator: You explain things clearly, concisely, and with warmth.
✅ Resilient & adaptable: You thrive in a fast-moving environment where priorities can shift.
✅ Detail-oriented: You take pride in accuracy and efficiency, and in a high standard of work.

Key Responsibilities:
Become an expert: Build deep knowledge of references and our key background checks, ensuring swift, accurate, and helpful responses to candidate queries via email.

Be a voice of reassurance: Handle queries with patience, empathy, and clarity, leaving users feeling calm and confident.

Own operational processes: Work behind the scenes to complete background checks flawlessly and efficiently, proactively reaching out to candidates and keeping our systems up to date.

• ️Champion speed & delight: Meet SLAs while delivering a seamless, warm, and WOW-worthy experience

Deliver meaningful interactions: Make every user feel heard, valued, and empowered to succeed

Hard Skills

Accuracy: Ability to handle information carefully and accurately, every time.

Organisation: Ability to stay on top of different software, tabs, and incoming queries.

️ Time Management: Skill in prioritising large volumes of queries efficiently.

Technical Proficiency: Ability to adapt to and operate different software systems.

✨ Soft Skills

High Emotional Intelligence – You’re able to give and receive feedback with honesty and care & understand customer needs to respond thoughtfully.

Clear Communicator – Strong short-form writing skills are essential for quick, concise messaging.

Adaptable – Comfortable switching tones and approaches depending on the audience and working in a dynamic company.

Thrive Under Pressure – You stay focused and effective in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Benefits

• Unlimited access to MoreHappi coaching
• Company socials & Free Monday lunches
• Early finish Fridays (16:00)

About Zinc

Who are Zinc? ️
We believe in better background checking: making them easy, instant and delightful - for candidates and HR teams across the world . Founded in 2017, we've grown year-on-year, reaching the Times Top 100 fastest growing businesses, the Deloitte EMEA fast 500 and winning the 2026 HSBC x WIRED Award in the Trailblazers Category.

But we're not all work, our founders Luke and Charlotte are hot on being a culture first business. By this, we don't just mean an active calendar of company and team events (although these are great! ) - our culture is defined by respect, fostering support for new ideas, promoting flexible work environments and operating with autonomy and low ego. ❤️

It's not just us who think they've done a stellar job - we've won awards for being a Top Place To Work in 2025 and 2026 from Tembo and SeedLegals

What are our values?
Our values are: Pragmatism, Integrity, Empathy, Collaboration, Empowerment and Speed. We call them the PIECES that make Zinc (see what we did there ).

How do we work? ‍‍‍

We operate on a hybrid working model, with everyone coming to our Shoreditch Offices on Mondays and Thursdays, and working from home on the others. We believe this is a great balance between having space for deep work and in-person collaboration ️️️