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Salary: USD 180,000 - 240,000 / annual
Ascend is a Series A fintech company building the first complete financial operations platform purpose-built for insurance. The platform combines accounting automation, payments, and premium financing in a single vertically integrated solution. Over 4,000 businesses, including more than half of the 50 largest brokers in the country, use Ascend to automate financial operations and achieve a proven 5-7x return on investment.
You will define the vision and strategy for Ascend's core money movement products, which span integrations, invoicing, payments, receivables, financing, payouts, funds flow, and the full payment lifecycle. You'll start by partnering with an existing product manager and grow into owning this product area overall.
In your first 30 days, you'll learn Ascend's platform and how customers work today, talk with customers about their financial operations and pain points, work with Engineering to understand APIs and system dependencies, review existing AI and automation, and present an initial assessment of the biggest opportunities backed by customer feedback and data.
In your first 60 days, you'll define a product vision and strategy based on customer needs and business goals, set baselines for operational efficiency metrics and targets for reducing them, turn strategy into a quarterly roadmap with clear priorities and expected outcomes, write product and technical specs for top initiatives, and align product, engineering, and leadership on priorities and success metrics.
In your first 90 days and beyond, you'll own and evolve the product vision, build AI into core product workflows to automate manual work and exception handling, track automation performance and continuously improve it, build capabilities that scale with enterprise complexity, lead initiatives from discovery through launch and adoption, work with Engineering on API requirements and system tradeoffs, test ideas with prototypes and early releases, and work across Design, Engineering, GTM, and Operations to simplify financial workflows.
This role mixes strategy with hands-on technical product work. You'll work directly with customers, write product and technical specs, and work closely with engineering to define system behavior and make tradeoffs. Many of these workflows have never been automated before, so you'll often need to define the problem before solving it. You'll be accountable for measurable gains in adoption, operational efficiency, automation, and revenue.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 6+ years of product management experience, including 3+ years owning the vision, strategy, and outcomes for a major product area
- 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 ability to articulate a compelling vision, make tradeoffs, and align cross-functional teams
NICE TO HAVE:
- B2B product experience in fintech, billing, or payments
- Experience in insurance, premium finance, lending, or loan management systems
- Experience building public APIs, platform integrations, or financial infrastructure at scale
- Experience building AI products or applying AI to financial workflows
