The only complete financial operations platform built for agencies, MGAs, wholesalers, and carriers. Backed by Index and South Park Commons.
About the role
You’ll own Ascend’s brand: its expression, evolution, and architecture as we grow. You’ll report to the head of design and partner closely with product and marketing. We don’t treat brand and product as separate disciplines — the product is where the brand is proven, and the brand is how the product is understood. We want someone who treats brand as infrastructure as much as expression, with the instincts of an art director. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 3+ years in brand or visual design, ideally in-house. We care more about the work than the number
- A portfolio that shows you built or meaningfully evolved a brand system, not only executed against someone else's
- Art direction ability: you can build a vision from references, imagery, texture, and type, and show the thinking behind it, not just the finished pieces
- Range across mediums: digital, print, environmental, and enough motion to bring things to life
- Systems instincts: you know when to build a template, a pattern, or a tool instead of another one-off asset
- Ownership: you run initiatives end to end, propose before you're asked, and can defend a decision or change your mind when the argument is better
More about this role
What We Do
Insurance is a $10T industry still running on PDFs, email threads, and manual reconciliation. Ascend is changing that. We built the first and only complete financial operations platform purpose-built for insurance — combining accounting automation, payments, and premium financing in a single vertically integrated solution. In five years, we've become the market leader: over 4,000 businesses, including more than half of the 50 largest brokers in the country, trust Ascend to bring clarity to complex accounting operations from collection to close.
How We Do It
Ascend automates the financial operations that insurers, MGAs, and agencies run every day and embeds directly into the transactions where money actually moves. Point solutions are easy to build and even easier to copy. The companies that win won't just sell tools — they'll capture value where the money actually moves. Ascend is built for exactly that moment. Our customers don't just adopt software, they unlock measurable efficiency with a proven 5-7x return on investment.
Our team is onsite in San Francisco. We bring deep expertise in insurance, fintech, and financial infrastructure to build what the industry has...
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