Product Support Specialist

Ascend Performance Materials

$70K — $100K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Background in insurance, financial services, or insurtech/fintech.
  • Experience building support systems at early stage companies.
  • Comfortable in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with attention to detail.
  • Familiarity with tools such as Retool, Slack, Notion, Front, and Linear.

Responsibilities

  • Onboard alongside new employees and learn products and processes.
  • Assist customers via email to resolve issues and educate them on product use.
  • Deepen product knowledge by exploring capabilities and customer use cases.
  • Collaborate with Operations, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success teams to solve complex issues.
  • Manage chat support to ensure quick and accurate responses.
  • Contribute to the development of a top-notch Product Support team.

Benefits

  • 100% health premiums covered for you and your dependents.
  • 401k with employer matching options.
  • Emphasis on internal promotions; 80% of hires promoted in the last year.
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO).
  • Company paid commuter benefits.
  • Parental and family leave offered.
  • Daily lunch provided.
  • Dog-friendly office environment.
Full Job Description
Your role

We're hiring a driven and detailed-oriented Product Support Specialist to collaborate with our customers and internal teams to triage and resolve issues that will help fuel our customers' success.

Responsibilities will include

Objective #1: In your first 30 days, you will:
  • Onboard alongside other new Ascend employees.
  • Begin learning our product and processes.

Objective #2: In your first 60 days you will:
  • Interact with customers over email, helping them resolve issues, educating them on how to better use the product, and ensuring a top-notch customer experience.
  • Continue your product education, pushing further into the capabilities of the product and our customers' use cases.

Objective #3: In your first 90 days, and beyond, you will:
  • Work closely with our Operations, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success teams to identify and solution complex issues, whether for an individual customer or across our entire product surface area.
  • Begin covering our chat support channel, where speed and accuracy are key.
  • Contribute to our support system, offering your expertise and guidance to help us build a world-class Product Support team.

You might be a good fit if you are/have
  • A background in insurance, financial services, or insurtech/fintech.
  • Prior experience building support systems at early stage companies.
  • Comfortable with the ambiguity and pace of an early stage startup.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to quickly understand complex (and sometimes dense) subject matter, and great attention to detail.
  • Experience working in our toolsets, which include Retool, Slack, Notion, Front, and Linear.

Base Salary Range: $70,000 - $100,000

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

Benefits
  • 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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