Growth Marketing Manager

Ascend is a fast-growing SaaS company that helps mid-market and large enterprise customers automate accounts payable processing through text extraction, machine learning and powerful integration into their financial systems – saving them millions each year. Our clients include household names like NASCAR, Panera, Virgin Voyages, Life Time Fitness 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 and unlimited time off. Most importantly, we offer the chance to learn, take ownership and build your career the way you’ve envisioned.

What would you do at Ascend?

The Growth Marketing Manager will play a pivotal role in building and managing a digital ecosystem for the Ascend brand, with a strong focus on bringing tactics and execution strategies that drive marketing qualified leads, brand awareness, and competitive differentiation. This is a unique opportunity for someone with a background in SaaS marketing to create, test, and execute marketing campaigns in a quickly expanding market. The salary range for this position is $75,000-$85,000.

Your day-to-day would include:

• Develop and execute day to day marketing campaign strategy including owning email, social, and content strategies to drive organic growth - increasing key metrics like open rates and click-through rates

• Work closely with sales, product, and customer experience team to create and deliver consistent messaging and targeting across all channels and marketing materials

• Oversee marketing performance for multi-channel campaigns including analyzing data across platforms and leveraging learnings and insights to optimize future campaigns

• Create and promote content that builds Ascend’s thought leadership profile including blogs, webinars, events, and more.

• Own prospect targeting and segmentation across specific verticals, including organization of data in Hubspot, Linkedin, Google, and more.

• Identify new areas for opportunity, including innovative ideas and trends to test and try in the B2B space

• Manage the company voice both internally and externally to drive long term brand awareness as well as short term conversion of prospects

What is Ascend looking for in a candidate?

• At least 4 years of experience in the fields of digital marketing, content marketing, or email marketing ideally focusing on SaaS in the B2B or B2B2C space

• Strong sense of urgency, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize

• Proficiency in Hubspot, Linkedin, and Google Ads platforms

• Strong relationship builder – both cross-functionally with internal teams and externally with agency partners

• Basic design and proven writing skills

• Excellent communication skills and proactive desire to share performance updates, ask for help, and drive projects forward

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 Allowance to use towards learning opportunities of your choice (cooking lessons, dance lessons, language lessons, etc.)

• You’ll receive flexible time off, 10 paid holidays, Flex Fridays during the summer 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 forallis 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 generous parental leave programs.

• 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 (30-60 minutes)

• Deep dive interview with the hiring manager – phone call (90+ minutes)

• Focused interviews with select potential teammates – 2 to 3 video calls (30 mins each)

• Reference calls with your last several managers

• Offer letter