Founding Data Scientist
Ascend
Founding Data Scientist
Ascend
Automates agency billing, financing, payments
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 never had.
Why We Do It
The insurance industry intermediates trillions of dollars — and almost none of that infrastructure was built for the modern era. Legacy systems aren't just inefficient; they're a ceiling on what the industry can become.
Ascend's mission is to become the leading financial automation platform for insurance by 2030 — powering the financial operations of the entire industry and transforming the way trillions of dollars move. We're not building another point solution, we're building the financial backbone of insurance.
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.
Objective #1: In your first 30 days, you will:
Objective #2: In your first 60 days, you will:
Objective #3: In your first 90 days, and beyond, you will:
Compensation: $150,000-$200,000
Benefits
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.
Ascend is a financial technology company that automates agency bill operations for insurance agencies. Its software combines billing, premium financing, and carrier payable workflows into one platform, helping agencies manage bills, finance premiums, and issue carrier payments more efficiently. Agencies interact with a user-friendly portal that clearly presents financing options, enabling faster policy binding and premium collection without back-and-forth paperwork. By automating these processes, Ascend aims to increase profitability and efficiency for agencies, and differentiate itself by offering a single integrated solution rather than multiple separate tools. The company’s stated goals are to improve EBITDA, reduce operating costs, and save agents time, enabling them to serve their clients better.
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