# Data Scientist, Product at Ascend

- Company: Ascend
- What the company does: The only complete financial operations platform built for agencies, MGAs, wholesalers, and carriers. Backed by Index and South Park Commons.
- Company website: https://useascend.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-25
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ascend21/jobs/5421300008
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/ascend-data-scientist-product/

## About the role

We're hiring a Senior Data Scientist to own measurement across the surfaces that move our customers' money. Reporting to the Head of Data, you will settle the metric definitions that three teams currently disagree on, set the thresholds that decide when a human touches a document, and stay accountable for those thresholds after they go live. We cut a standalone data scientist role to fund this one. Building a model got cheap; being answerable when a threshold is wrong did not.

## What they're looking for

- Owned product data inside a live workflow rather than reporting on one, and can name the decision your number changed
- Deployed a model into a live workflow and owned it afterward, including calibration, drift, and the call to re-fit or retire
- Comfortable explaining calibration, drift, predicted-versus-realized, and re-fit timing to a non-technical owner
- Strong in SQL and feature engineering
- Experience with payments is a plus
- Someone who thrives in the ambiguity of an early-stage startup and will say when the data is too weak to decide, then propose a next step anyway

Tags: Data