Ascend is a fast-growing SaaS company that automates invoice processing and payments for mid- and large enterprise customers. Our flagship product, Ascend AP, leverages AI, powerful real-time ERP integrations, and embedded payments technology to save our customers tens of millions of dollars every year. Our customers include household names like NASCAR, Panera Bread, Virgin Voyages, and PGA TOUR as well as many of the nation’s largest and most renown hospitals and health systems, financial services providers, and higher ed institutions.
Ascend is a fully remote company that offers competitive pay, exceptional benefits including unparalleled 401(k) matching, and unlimited time off. Most importantly, we offer the chance to learn, take ownership, and grow in your career the way you’ve envisioned.
What would you do at Ascend?
As a Technical Support Engineer (TSE), you’ll be a trusted problem-solver and advisor to our customers, ensuring exceptional support experiences that foster loyalty and trust. This role focuses on timely and empathetic resolutions of technical issues, maintaining high customer satisfaction (CSAT), and driving process improvements to enhance efficiency. You will collaborate across teams to refine product usability, deliver proactive customer education, and optimize workflows for seamless support delivery. The salary range for this position is $60,000 - $65,000.
Your day-to-day would include:
□ Diagnosing and resolving customer issues across a range of technologies, including SQL, C#, and modern web applications (AWS, etc.…
□ Communicating with customers via multiple support channels – primarily email, phone, and video conferences
□ Maintaining an average SLA adherence rate of 98% or higher, ensuring prompt and effective resolution of customer issues.
□ Consistently achieving and sustaining a Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT) of 95% or higher through exceptional communication and support quality.
□ Collaborating with cross-functional teams to resolve escalated cases efficiently and provide actionable feedback to improve product usability.
□ Documenting and standardizing troubleshooting processes, ensuring consistency and clarity for all team members.
What is Ascend looking for in a candidate?
□ Experience: 1 to 3 years in technical support roles, preferably in SaaS or software environments.
□ Technical Skills: Strong troubleshooting expertise with proficiency in SQL, database management. Experience with ERPs like Workday. Experience with OCR technologies (MSFR, ABBYY, Iron, etc…), and debugging programming languages (e.g., Python, C#, Go).
□ Soft Skills: Exceptional written and verbal communication, attention to detail, and a proven ability to resolve complex customer issues collaboratively.
□ Mindset: A commitment to continuous improvement, customer satisfaction, and operational excellence.
□ Candidates must live in the Eastern Standard Time zone or be willing to work Eastern Standard hours.
Why should you apply?
- We offer everything you’d expect from a profitable company including a great salary, comprehensive health care benefits (100% covered for employees, 50% for dependents), and a generous retirement plan match
- You’ll receive an annual Lifelong Learning & Wellness Allowance to use towards learning opportunities of your choice (cooking lessons, dance lessons, language lessons, etc.) or to achieve your health and wellness goals
- You’ll receive flexible time off, paid holidays, and one week off between Christmas and New Year’s
- A platform for good: a culture of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, charity matching and volunteer days—creating belonging for all is in our DNA both inside and outside of work
- Remote-first culture. No matter where you are, you’ll feel connected to the team
- We take family seriously and offer flexible schedules and 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- We give you great tools and tech to do your best work: Hardware, software, and home office setups
Our Interview and Hiring Process
We want the best people on our team. To get them, we’ve built our hiring process around three Ts: thorough, transparent and thoughtful. Our interview process is an honest evaluation of what you’ve done, what you’re good at, and what you’re working on improving. The goal of this process is to identify, as objectively as possible, people who will raise the level of play within our company.
Here's how it works:
- Application
- Screening interview – phone call (30 minutes)
- Deep dive interview with the hiring manager – video call (90+ minutes)
- Focused interviews with select potential teammates – 2 video calls (45 mins each)
- Reference calls with your last several managers
- Offer letter
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