Ascent helps its customers follow laws and regulations.  We are a new type of company, a "RegTech" organization that combines a SaaS platform with intelligent content to provide customized tools and targeted advice for our customers.  We’re using modern techniques like machine learning and predictive analytics to stay on the cutting edge of our industry.

The Ascent platform makes it easy for compliance officers in regulated industries to see exactly what is expected of their companies, then track and report on the steps they’re taking to stay compliant.  Before Ascent, this was a very expensive manual process.  Reasonable regulation is an important part of the free market, protecting consumers and leveling the playing field.  But due to their complexity and sheer volume, regulations often feel more like a punitive burden.  By reducing the cost of compliance Ascent is encouraging innovation, helping existing companies stay in business, and making it possible for new companies to get started.  The efficient intelligence we provide helps our customers fulfill the spirit (and letter) of their obligations in a way that lets them breathe easy and focus on creating value for their own customers through their core business.

We’re currently focused on regulations in the financial services sector, though our platform is flexible enough to eventually handle all regulated industries (EPA, FDA, etc).  We raised a $1.2M seed round in August 2016 from respected investors in this space who strongly believe in the opportunity we’re pursuing.  We’re currently 9 full and part-time employees, located in Chicago at Michigan/Jackson.  As a team we explicitly value integrity, cooperation, persistence, customer obsession, and innovation.  We believe a diversity of opinions and perspectives creates a stronger team and product.

As trailblazers in our space we’re looking for people passionate about building new and innovative products, who aren’t afraid of challenging the status quo, and who have a thirst for knowledge and creating amazing solutions to generations-old problems.

As VP of Content, you’ll own our content creation process (the content “throughput) ranging from document ingest to language analysis and text parsing. Your will focus on creating content for our systems, but may also include working with our data and software engineers on process automation. Responsibilities may include:

As part of a small but growing team, your focus on details and obsession with accuracy will be paramount, and the work you complete will immediately benefit our customers. You will be pushing the boundaries of turning qualitative data into quantitative intelligence from a technological perspective. You’ll work directly with our CEO Brian Clark on a daily basis to understand these goals, and to grow your knowledge and career.