Customer Success Manager

Ascend Performance Materials

$105K — $110K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in related roles
  • Experience with high value enterprise customer relationships in B2B SaaS or Fintech
  • Ability to adapt quickly in a fast-paced startup environment
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for executive-level engagement
  • Consultative approach with proven renewals and expansion success
  • Knowledge of insurance, financial services, or fintech is advantageous

Responsibilities

  • Analyze Ascend's product and current customer success processes
  • Establish strong relationships with internal teams across Sales, Product, and Support
  • Manage a portfolio of enterprise customers with regular executive touch-points
  • Understand customers' workflows and success metrics to drive adoption
  • Lead customer operations including business reviews and feature rollouts
  • Own the post-implementation lifecycle including renewals and expansions
  • Convey customer feedback and insights to inform product decisions

Benefits

  • Equity in the company
  • Full coverage of health premiums for employees and dependents
  • 401k plan with employer matching
  • Opportunities for internal advancement with 80% of hires promoted
  • Unlimited paid time off
  • Company paid commuter benefits
  • Parental and family leave
  • Daily lunch provided
  • Dog-friendly office environment
Full Job Description
_*]:min-w-0 gap-3 !gap-3.5">Your Role

We are looking for a relationship driven, strategically minded Customer Success Manager to scale our post-implementation Customer Success function. This role will own the end to end lifecycle of Ascend's highest value customers, serving as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders while ensuring strong adoption, retention, and expansion. You'll balance hands-on account management with long-term thinking by building repeatable motions, surfacing customer insights, and partnering cross functionally to drive durable growth.
Responsibilities will include
Objective #1: In your first 30 days, you will:
  • Dive deep into Ascend's product, customer segments, and current Customer Success processes and tools
  • Build foundational relationships with internal partners across Sales, Product, and Product Support
  • Begin developing your approach to managing relationships and driving value for sophisticated insurance organizations
Objective #2: In your first 60 days, you will:
  • Own a portfolio of mid-market and enterprise customers, running regular touch-points with executive stakeholders and day to day users
  • Develop a strong understanding of your customers' workflows, goals, and success metrics with actionable insights to improve adoption and outcomes
  • Lead core customer operations including business reviews, feature rollouts, and coordination of complex issues with Product Support
Objective #3: In your first 90 days, and beyond, you will:
  • Fully own the post implementation customer lifecycle including renewals and expansion motions in partnership with Sales and Product
  • Act as the voice of the customer internally by surfacing trends, risks, and opportunities to inform product and process decisions
  • Help define and refine scalable Customer Success best practices that enable Ascend to deliver a world class enterprise customer experience
You might be a good fit if you are / have
  • 3+ years of experience in related roles
  • Prior experience managing high value enterprise customer relationships in B2B SaaS or Fintech environments
  • Comfortable operating in the ambiguity and pace of a high growth startup
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to navigate executive level conversations and complex subject matter
  • A consultative, relationship first approach to customer success with a proven track record of renewals and expansion
  • Background in insurance, financial services, or fintech is a plus

Base Salary Range: $105,000-110,000

All roles at Ascend are 5 days a week onsite at our beautiful office in SoMa!

Benefits
  • Meaningful equity
  • 100% health premiums covered for you and your dependents
  • 401k with employer matching options
  • A fast growing team with an emphasis on promoting from within 80% of all hires in the last 12 months have already been promoted!
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Company paid commuter benefits
  • Parental and family leave
  • Lunch everyday
  • Dog-friendly office!

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