Associate Marketing Manager

Who we are

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 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 annually 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To simplify one of the world’s most crucial yet outdated industries.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

We are seeking an Associate Marketing Manager to join our marketing team to help support our go-to-market function targeting independent agencies and brokerages. You will need to be comfortable wearing many hats, be detail oriented, and comfortable working in a fast paced environment.

This role reports direct into the Marketing Lead and will be focused on growing brand awareness as well as top-of-funnel prospects for the sales team across press campaigns/outreach, events marketing, and content creation.

Responsibilities will include:

Objective #1: In the first 30 days, you will learn how Ascend helps insurance agencies and can communicate this to the industry

• Develop a deep understanding of how Ascend delivers and adds value to our customers and the insurance industry
• Manage the press outreach and content creation for contributed content, awards submissions, and press releases
• Craft and coordinate the social media posts and content for Linkedin

Objective #2: In your first 60 days, you can organize and own our field marketing program

• Organize and run our events program including conferences, hosted-events, webinars, and dinners for prospects as well as existing customers
• Work cross-functionally with the sales and design team to ensure a best-in-class experience at our events
• Know our customer - be able to not only coordinate events, but also run events in tandem with sales

Objective #3: In your first 90 days, you are measuring the results and understanding how to iterate and improve our marketing program

• Be able to report back on the learnings, successes, and area of improvements for our conferences + events
• Work cross-functionally to implement these improvements with the broader team
• Connect all the touch points across social, press, and events to craft a consistent brand message for Ascend

You might be a good fit if you are / have

• Organized and Detail Oriented: Hosting a successful event is all about the details. You are able to turn a vision into a reality while being flexible to adjust when things don’t go as planned.
• Brand Driven: You care about how people feel when they talk about companies. You understand the power of messaging alongside brand awareness and brand perception.
• Creative and Analytical: You are able use both the left and right sides of your brain - you have an eye for design but can also dive into data.
• Customer Focused: You care deeply about your customers and their problems and want to to deeply understand, relate to, and connect with our customer base. Insurance is a main-street America business where relationships matter.
• Outcome-Oriented: You have proven success acting as a function owner including a track record of consistently delivering measurable results.

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
• In-Office lunch provided
• Company outings and off-sites

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.