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Product Designer

San Francisco

What we do

Ascend is a fintech company building the financial automation platform for the $7T global insurance market (insurance premiums make up 7.2% of global GDP!). Ascend is the first and market leading modern finance automation platform purpose built for for insurance to enable the industry's rapid digitalization.

Founded 3 years ago, Ascend has achieved the following milestones:

  • Acquired over 3,000 customers, including several of the top 25 largest insurance distributors nationally (Acrisure, Insurica, NFP, etc.) as well as leading Insurtechs (Vouch, Embroker, Founder Shield).
  • Processing billions of dollars in transactions anually and growing 300%+ per year
  • Named a Top 50 Insurtech by CB Insights.
  • Built a world-class team of 40 based out of our San Francisco, CA, and Columbus, OH offices.

How we do it

Ascend is the industry leading platform to automate the entire insurance financial operations lifecycle across collections, accounting, reconciliations, and disbursements. Businesses using Ascend experience improved operational efficiencies, treasury management, and customer experience – resulting in increased profitability and full visibility into financial performance. We are typically able to provide our customers a 5-7x ROI by replacing their current manual processes with Ascend's software.

Why we do it

To simplify one of the world’s most crucial yet outdated industries. Ascend’s goal is to become the market-leading finance automation platform for insurance businesses by 2030.

Your role

As a Product Design team member you will play a crucial role in building out the design function at Ascend. You will work on both 0-1 products and improving our existing product offering. Working closely with customers and cross-functional teams, you will be responsible for creating intuitive, visually appealing, and functional designs that solve problems for our customers.

Responsibilities will include

Objective #1: In your first 30 days, you will:

  • Form strong relationships with the rest of the Ascend product, design and engineering teams.
  • Develop a deep understanding of the Ascend product and market landscape.
  • Closely interact with customers to understand pain points and needs
  • Develop and present your first set of wireframes, prototypes and specs that effectively communicate product features and functionality.

Objective #2: In your first 60 days you will:

  • Lead design of 1-2 features per week together with your engineering and product counterparts.

Objective #3: In your first 90 days, and beyond, you will:

  • Own end to end design for a functional area of the Ascend product
  • Contribute to the development and maintenance of a design system to ensure consistency across all products and platforms.

You might be a good fit if you have

  • Proven experience as a Product Designer, with a strong portfolio showcasing a range of design projects.
  • Proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Axure, or similar.
  • Strong understanding of UX principles and interaction design.

Nice to have

  • Brand design experience.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  • Ability to balance creativity with practicality, considering technical constraints and business objectives.
  • Very detail-oriented and maintain a high caliber of organization.
  • Comfortable with the ambiguity and pace of an early stage startup.

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary and meaningful equity in a fast-growing company

  • 100% health premiums covered for you and your dependents

  • 401k with employer matching options

  • Unlimited PTO

  • Monthly company-paid commuter benefit options, and fitness stipends

  • Parental and family leave

  • Lunch provided when in office

  • Company outings and off-sites

  • Dog-friendly office!

Join Ascend and be part of our mission to revolutionize the insurance industry and contribute to global financial modernization. Your leadership can make a significant impact on improving the $1T+ insurance industry.

Equal Opportunity

We are committed to equal opportunity employment and embrace diversity within our organization. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We encourage candidates to apply even if their experience doesn't precisely match this opportunity. We value diversity and are dedicated to equal opportunity employment.

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