
Our Team is Always Growing
Arrow Payments was founded in 2005 with a focus on helping small companies set up their credit card processing and merchant accounts. Within the first few years of operation, the company quickly grew to three offices with 40 employees. As the business evolved, the focus shifted to supporting larger organizations. This new strategy led to delivering the expertise and creative solutions necessary to successfully support Enterprise accounts.
After nine years of exponential growth and success, Founder Deborah Jackson had the opportunity to take sole ownership of the company. It was under Deborah’s guidance that the company experienced major organizational change, with a shift from the original “hardcore-selling boiler room” culture to an authentic approach of thoughtful service and expert care within the payments industry. Today, Deborah oversees a nimble team that has broadened their services into higher education and healthcare. This new season of continued growth has been focused on scalability, specifically around this newly defined target market.
Arrow Payments is recognized within the payment solutions industry as a team of trusted technology advisors who care deeply about protecting client success. Complex organizations need assistance and implementation specialists -- Arrow Payments decodes the payments world and offers solutions in a constantly changing payments landscape.
Deborah Jackson, Founder & CEO
What We Do:
We deliver expertise and creative solutions for enterprise businesses with complex payment security and reconciliation needs.
Our Mission:
Improve the world by creating meaningful experiences and opportunities for client and team member success.
Our Core Values:
Working at Arrow is More than a Paycheck
“I didn’t know that you can work at a place like this. I’ve worked at award-winning "best places to work" for 15+ years and none of them had the environment that we have here. I tell people stories about the amazing things that we’re doing for our clients and for each other and they always say the same thing: “What’s the catch?” But that’s the thing; I’m constantly pinching myself. It’s incredible to not only love where you work but to also be loved where you work.”
- Marci, Arrow Payments Team Member since 2018
“Most financial corporations list missions that relate to the bottom line, but here at Arrow Payments, it’s people over profit. This kind of mission produces an interesting environment and team. We are invested in each other on an emotional level.”
- Rachel, Arrow Payments Team Member Since 2012
Here are just some of the benefits our team enjoys:
A place you love to work! Seriously.
Continuous education. We are constantly learning and evolving. We are proud members of the Junto Institute striving for emotional intelligence, leadership and goal achievements.
We work in a beautiful office with people that care about one another and the company.
You can wear what you want to the office… yet we are always professional.
La Colombe Coffee and tea, including Matcha, all key elements to a great morning.
We offer a competitive salary + bonus opportunities.
To help our team prepare for retirement, we have a 401k with a company match.
Healthcare including medical, dental, and vision coverage to keep you healthy.
Generous PTO policy and company paid holidays
We promote from within. As we grow, so will you!
Client Support Specialist
Job Mission: What is the primary responsibility for this position?
The Client Support Specialist is responsible for the completion of tasks that support the implementation and long-term success of Arrow Payments Clients including responding to Client questions, training Clients on payment solutions and assisting with creating an extraordinary Client experience throughout the entire Client journey.
Requirements:
3+ years experience in a customer-facing role
1-2+ years experience in payments or financial services preferred, not but required
Location: Based in Chicago, IL or Remote
Travel: None
Competencies:
Excellent Communication: Clearly and proactively communicates the status of requests to Clients and internal stakeholders. Escalates as appropriate without letting an issue boil over.
Time Management: Values time and uses his/her/their time effectively and efficiently. Concentrates on priorities, while also attending to a broader range of activities.
Timeliness of Delivery of Output: Produces work on time, without sacrificing quality.
Priority Setting: Has a keen sense of what’s mission-critical and what is just nice to do. As a result, he/she/they spends time on what is most important.
Functional/Technical Skills: Experienced and up to functional or technical proficiency to do the job at a high level of accomplishment.
Patience: Ability to approach a request with enthusiasm and positivity, whether it is the first time or 100th time.
Integrity and Trust: Follows-through and does not cause problems for others. Is seen as a direct, truthful, and widely trusted individual.
Listening: Acknowledges points others are trying to make via attentive and active listening, even when he/she/they disagrees.
Customer Focus: Dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external clients by prioritizing clients first. Establishes and maintains effective relationships with clients and gains their trust and respect.
Alignment and Compliance: Is aligned with the culture, values, and mission of Arrow Payments. Also encourages others to act in alignment with common organizational practices.
Responsibilities:
Client Support:
Prioritization and execution of tactical tasks for clients
Manage your assigned tasks within the CRM system
Execute on assigned support cases, ensure all steps are set up and completed within the system, communicating to the client along the way
Communicate to Team Members as cases are in-progress and completed
Close support cases at the point of completion
Ensure tasks and cases are updated with appropriate next steps
Front line client support
Answering client calls, emails with high-touch customer service within standard turnaround times
Ordering payment devices, installing and training client on new devices
Setting up payment pages, gateway accounts, and other configurations
Assisting clients with transaction refunds, reporting, research requests
Setting up new merchant accounts, training users on systems
Supporting Customer Success Team
Scheduling meetings, sending invites and reminders
Manage Google folders
Client love
Execution of Client Love initiatives including thank you notes, calls and gifts
PCI Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) support
Manage monthly SAQ process
Reach out to merchants due for annual SAQs
Set up calls with clients to support them through the process
Lead monthly SAQ webinars
Statement Reconciliation
Be able to articulate the client’s value-based pricing structure to them
Answer questions on monthly statements and reconciliation
Operations:
Keep client success operations documentation up to date
Pull monthly reports from vendors on client activity
Complete research projects on payment solutions
Administrative tasks as assigned
If this sounds like a good fit for your future, please apply...
Tell us in your own words why you would like to work for Arrow Payments. Please email your cover letter and resume for consideration to Marci LaRouech. Email: Info at ArrowPayments.com
Client Success Specialist
Job Mission: What is the primary responsibility for this position?
The Client Success Specialist is ultimately responsible for the timely resolution of client requests. The Client Success Specialist is the first line of contact with the client, serving as the representative of Arrow Payments. The purpose and goal of this role is the consistent execution and prioritization of tasks, as well as serving as the advocate for the clients, and the conduit between the clients and the rest of the Arrow Payments team.
Requirements:
3+ years experience in a customer-facing role
1-2+ years experience in payments or financial services preferred, not but required
Location: Based in Chicago, IL
Travel: Minimal (sometimes necessary for onsite support)
Competencies:
Priority Setting: Has a keen sense of what’s mission-critical and what is just nice to do. As a result, he/she spends time on what is most important.
Comfort Around Higher Management: Maintains composure around senior management by understanding how they think and work. Determines the best and most appropriate way to get things done. Comfortable delivering presentations.
Customer Focus: Dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external clients by prioritizing clients first. Establishes and maintains effective relationships with clients and gains their trust and respect.
Functional/Technical Skills: Experienced and up to functional or technical proficiency to do the job at a high level of accomplishment.
Integrity and Trust: Follows-through and does not cause problems for others. Is seen as a direct, truthful, and widely trusted individual.
Listening: Acknowledges points others are trying to make via attentive and active listening, even when he/she disagrees.
Organizational Agility: Equipped with interpersonal skills to get things done across boundaries. Understands the origin and reasoning behind key policies, practices, and procedures.
Personal Learning: Adapts to his/her surroundings or the situation. Responds to changing personal demands, requirements, and changes accordingly.
Time Management: Values time and uses his/her time effectively and efficiently. Concentrates on priorities, while also attending to a broader range of activities.
Timeliness of Delivery of Output: Produces work on time, without sacrificing quality.
Alignment and Compliance: Is aligned with the culture, values, and mission of Arrow Payments. Also encourages others to act in alignment with common organizational practices.
Responsibilities:
Client Success:
Front line client support
Answering client calls, emails within standard turnaround times
Ordering payment devices, installing and training client on new devices
Setting up payment pages
Assisting clients with transaction refunds, reporting, research requests
Setting up new merchant accounts, training users on systems
Prioritization and execution of tactical tasks for clients
Manage your assigned tasks within the CRM system
Open new support cases when clients reach out, ensure all steps are set up and completed within the system, communicating to the client along the way
Communicate to Solutions Advisors as cases are in-progress and completed
Close support cases at the point of completion
Manage weekly reporting of client cases to internal and client stakeholders
Client love
Execution of Client Love initiatives including thank you notes, calls and gifts
Presentations
Comfortable meeting face-to-face with clients and presenting our solutions
PCI Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) support
Manage monthly SAQ process
Reach out to merchants due for annual SAQs
Set up calls with clients to support them through the process
Ensure completion and accuracy of the SAQs.
Product Awareness
Understand current and future offerings from different vendors to best fulfill client’s needs
Be able to support and train clients on different payment technology platforms
Participate in vendor webinars to grow the understanding of product offerings and vendor processes
Pricing
Be able to articulate the client’s value-based pricing structure to them
Manage rate reviews and pricing recommendations
Operations:
Keep client success operations documentation up to date
Pull monthly reports from vendors on client activity
Complete research projects on payment solutions
Administrative tasks
Collect mail and manage outgoing shipping
If this sounds like a good fit for your future, please apply...
Tell us in your own words why you would like to work for Arrow Payments. Please email your cover letter and resume for consideration to Marci LaRouech. Email: Info at ArrowPayments.com
Solutions Advisor
Job Mission: What is the primary responsibility for this position?
The Solutions Advisor is ultimately responsible for the Discovery and for the implementation process, post-discovery. The purpose of and goal of the Solutions Advisor is to establish credibility, build trust, and create a world-class customer experience through effective communication, organization and execution.
Requirements:
5 years of professional experience, SaaS client success, and/or consulting
At least one year experience in payment technology and / or PCI compliance
Location: Chicago, IL (Estimated 25% travel required)
Key Competencies:
Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people. Builds appropriate rapport. Uses diplomacy and tact. Can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably. Strong ability to read the room (knows when to push and when to be patient).
Customer Focus: Acts with customers in mind. Establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust & respect.
Listening: Practices attentive and active listening. Asking thoughtful questions to get a good understanding. Probing questions. Clarifying questions. Confirmation questions.
Organizing: Can handle multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal, uses resources effectively, arranges information in a useful manner.
Technical / Functional Skills: Has the functional and technical skills to do the job at a high level of accomplishment. (Understanding of complex terminology / solutions).
Time Management & Priority Setting: Values time and gets more done in less time than others. Uses time efficiently and effectively. Spends time on what is important, eliminates roadblocks.
Perseverance: seldom gives up, especially in the face of resistance or setbacks.
Business Acumen: Keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with a "business situation" in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome.
Responsibilities: Acquisition & Discovery
Propose:
Participate in Discovery Proposal Review meeting
Build rapport, develop relationship, and understand the opportunity
Commit:
Participate in Discovery Proposal Commitment Meeting
Understand engagement goals
Establish (tentative) engagement schedule, next steps and expectations
Discovery: Execution of Project Plan
Create, organize, communicate
Organize and schedule engagement
Gather contacts, complete internal checklist
Contact, Listen, Document
Establish contact across the entire campus
Manage cross-campus kick-off (facilitated through university)
Uncover Pain (During meetings)
Discovering sales opportunity focused on PCI, security risk, & inefficiencies
Focused on University (org) and individual Departments
Solution Design (After on-site meetings)
Demonstrate credibility
Show complexity of pain
Final Discovery Presentation & Proposal
Create a quality final presentation through effective collaboration
Provide support & shared experiences
Final Commitment
Proactively ensure there are no holes in AP’s presentation
Build rapport & offer support
Responsibilities: Implementation & Support
Weekly Meeting
Project kick-off
Explain solution plan approved by stakeholders
Independent Department Meetings
What we learned
What was approved
Presentation of department implementation plan
Coordination with Vendors & Departments
Finalize vendor solutions
Sign vendor contracts
Reconciliation Plan
Verify reconciliation strategy
Explanation of execution and strategy (i.e timeline and expectations)
Deploy Solutions
PCI compliance
Installation
Training
Efficiency
Ongoing meetings
Support Solutions
Address questions and provide resolutions
Address equipment issues
If this sounds like a good fit for your future, please apply...
Tell us in your own words why you would like to work for Arrow Payments. Please email your cover letter and resume for consideration to Marci LaRouech. Email: Info at ArrowPayments.com
Enterprise Solutions Executive
Job Mission: What is the primary responsibility for this position?
The Enterprise Solutions Executive is ultimately responsible for building Arrow Payments’ sales pipeline by generating leads, cultivating meaningful relationships with qualified opportunities and ultimately securing new clients.
Requirements:
Location: Chicago, IL (some travel required)
3 years of sales experience (preferably Enterprise sales)
Competencies:
Need for Achievement: Sets demanding personal goals. Is ambitious. Strives for excellence. Willing to work as hard as necessary to get things done.
Persuasion: Builds a good case, taking customer needs into account. Closes compellingly. Enjoys selling, negotiating, and changing others' point of view. Stays calm under pressure.
Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people. Builds appropriate rapport. Uses diplomacy and tact. Can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably. Strong ability to read the room (knows when to push and when to be patient).
Organization: Is disciplined and methodical. Detail-oriented. Is organized and orderly. Checks thoroughly to avoid mistakes. Tracks opportunities and contacts. Task-oriented. Follows up.
Technical / Functional Skills: Has the functional and technical skills to do the job at a high level of accomplishment. (Understanding of complex terminology / solutions).
Optimism: Expects to succeed. Remains resilient in the face of difficulties.
Confidence: Is unfazed by rejection. Not offended by difficult buyers. Feels self-assured. Freely expresses opinions or concerns.
Responsibilities:
Prospect
Create a target list based on ideal client profile
Research & identify the key decision maker(s) at each prospect
Contact potential leads (email, phone, networking events, etc.) that meet Ideal Client Profile criteria
Schedule pre-qualification meeting
Document activity related information in CRM
Connect
Identify if prospect’s needs fit Arrow Payment’s services
If yes, then schedule presentation (qualification) meeting
Build relationships with strategic & channel partners
Document prospect related information in CRM
Set agenda for presentation (qualification) meeting
Qualify
Assist in preparing presentation materials
Participate in presentation (qualification) meetings
Document qualification-related information in CRM
Follow-up with prospect confirming next-steps
Propose
Assist in developing proposals (for Discovery)
Participate in proposal review meeting
Follow-up with prospect confirming next-steps
Commit
Part I: Participate in final proposal review meeting (for Discovery)
Part II: Participate in proposal review meeting (for Solutions)
If this sounds like a good fit for your future, please apply...
Tell us in your own words why you would like to work for Arrow Payments. Please email your cover letter and resume for consideration to Deborah Jackson, CEO. DeborahJ@ArrowPayments.com
Other Roles at Arrow Payments
Are you excited about joining the Arrow Payments team, but you do not see a role that fits your expertise? Please let us know how you think you could help Arrow Payments grow. Email Deborah Jackson, CEO at DeborahJ@ArrowPayments.com