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Product Designer
Ascend • San Francisco, United States of America 🇺🇸
The Product Designer will shape how the product communicates with users by designing features that build trust through clarity and detail. They will collaborate across teams to enhance the user experience and contribute to the overall design practice at Ascend.
Responsibilities
- Help shape how design is practiced at Ascend
- Build context by contributing to real product work in the first 30 days
- Get hands-on with their design system through implementation and iteration
- Collaborate with GTM on brand and marketing assets
- Join product reviews, critiques, and design rituals to build context fast
- Own and ship a scoped product feature end-to-end in the first 60 days
- Contribute patterns and polish to their design system
- Partner closely with engineering to improve design/dev collaboration
- Support marketing and brand efforts with fluency and consistency
- Take ownership of a meaningful product surface area and operate with autonomy in the first 90 days
- Drive a project from early discovery to implementation
- Raise product quality through reviews, system design, and strong partnerships
- Suggest improvements to how they work—process, tools, and cross-functional practices
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience designing software at a growth-stage startup
- Confident in visual and interaction design, and systems thinking, with a portfolio that shows clarity and restraint
- Attention to detail, catching small things and helping others do the same
- Designed products that serve complex use cases for enterprise customers
- Energized by ambiguity and know how to find shape in a blank canvas
- Know what good design looks like and why something falls short
- Excited to stretch beyond product UI and into brand, motion, storytelling, or wherever the work demands
Key Skills
- Experience working on SaaS, fintech, or accounting tools
- Familiarity with front-end development or working closely with engineers
- Prior experience with design systems, especially at smaller startups
- Exposure to motion, animation, or data visualization
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
- Parental and family leave
- Lunch provided when in office
- Company outings and off-sites
- Dog-friendly office
About Ascend
Ascend is a comprehensive accounting automation platform powered by AI and purpose-built for insurance brokers, MGAs, and carriers. Ascend makes insurance businesses more profitable by increasing revenue and decreasing operational expenses through administrative process automation, financial insights, and treasury management. We work with 3,000+ insurance businesses from startups to publicly traded companies. We’re hiring across GTM, engineering and business functions - email us at hello@useascend.com if you're interested in learning more.
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