The only complete financial operations platform built for agencies, MGAs, wholesalers, and carriers. Backed by Index and South Park Commons.
About the role
Ascend is looking for a Lead Product Manager to define the vision and strategy for our core money movement products. You'll start by partnering with an existing product manager and grow into owning this product area overall. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 6+ years of product management experience, including 3+ years owning the vision, strategy, and outcomes for a major product area
- A track record of translating product strategy into successful launches and measurable customer and business results
- Experience building for enterprise customers with complex workflows and integration requirements
- Hands-on experience writing product and technical specifications, with clear requirements, edge cases, and acceptance criteria
- Technical and analytical fluency to work with engineers on APIs, data models, and interconnected systems, and use data to guide decisions
- Clear communication and the ability to articulate a compelling vision, make tradeoffs, and align cross-functional teams
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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