About the Role
Ascend is seeking a driven and detail-oriented Product Support Specialist to collaborate with customers and internal teams to resolve issues, ensuring customer success and contributing to the growth of a world-class Product Support team.
Responsibilities
- Onboard alongside other new Ascend employees.
- Begin learning our product and processes.
- Interact with customers over email, helping them resolve issues, educating them on how to better use the product, and ensuring a top-notch customer experience.
- Continue product education, focusing on product capabilities and customer use cases.
- Work closely with Operations, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success teams to identify and solution complex issues.
- Cover the chat support channel, prioritizing speed and accuracy.
- Contribute to the support system, offering expertise and guidance.
Requirements
- A background in insurance, financial services, or insurtech/fintech.
- Prior experience building support systems at early-stage companies.
- Comfortable with the ambiguity and pace of an early-stage startup.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to quickly understand complex subject matter.
- Great attention to detail.
- Encouraged to apply even if experience doesn't precisely match the opportunity.
Skills
- Retool
- Slack
- Notion
- Front
- Linear
Salary/Compensations
- $70,000 - $100,000
About the Company
- Insurance is a $10T industry still running on PDFs, email threads, and manual reconciliation. Ascend is changing that.
- Ascend built the first and only complete financial operations platform purpose-built for insurance — combining AI-powered accounting automation, payments, and premium financing in a single vertically integrated solution.
- In five years, Ascend has become the market leader with over 4,000 businesses trusting Ascend to bring clarity to complex accounting operations.
- Ascend automates the financial operations that insurers, MGAs, and agencies run every day and embeds directly into the transactions where money actually moves.
- Ascend's AI-driven approach offers customers a proven 5–7x return on investment.
- The 70+ person team, based in San Francisco and Columbus, brings together deep expertise in insurance, fintech, and AI.
- Ascend's mission is to become the leading financial automation platform for insurance by 2030, powering the financial operations of the entire industry and transforming the way trillions of dollars move.
- Ascend is building the financial backbone of insurance.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed to equal opportunity employment and embracing diversity within the organization.
- Does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
- Values diversity and is dedicated to equal opportunity employment.
