Software Implementation Specialist
Implementation Specialist
Reports to: Director of Customer Experience
Who You Are
You will thrive here if you are highly self-motivated and self-directed and in your professional work, you consider your end user to be of highest importance. You desire autonomy and full ownership of your work product, including willingness to tackle projects head on. You have 2+ years of experience in software implementation or consulting with a proven track record of managing or supporting complex implementation projects. You have excellent interpersonal skills and time management capabilities. An understanding of financial services and how Compliance, Risk, and Legal departments function is preferred but not required.
Job Description
- Partner with the Sales, Product and Compliance teams to play an integral role in the post sales process with Ascent customers.
- Work with the Director of Customer Experience to build a good understanding of customers’ needs to allow for an easy transition from sales to implementation. During the transition process, convey awareness of which features the customer has expressed an interest in order to help achieve the customer’s goals.
- Create and establish best practices within the Implementation function.
- Manage the end-to-end client onboarding process across several implementations of various sizes and complexities simultaneously.
- Utilize mode and excel reports for data analysis throughout implementation.
- Support program and project teams; coordinate and delegate cross-project initiatives
- Serve as a primary point of contact for all customer related issues and requests during implementation
- Ensure that all customer feedback is received and escalated to the appropriate team to ensure delivery of customer objectives
Skills:
- Possess a solid understanding of financial services and how Compliance, Risk and Legal departments function
- Comfortable proposing and implementing creative ideas and solutions
- Ability to take initiative and work independently
- Establish rapport and building strong relationships with customers and Ascent employees across all teams within the company
- Manage multiple engagements and work on cross-functional teams in a fast-moving environment, while maintaining devotion to detail-oriented work
- Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills with ability to build sincere business relationships and deal effectively with relational challenges if they occur
- Excellent knowledge of change management principles
- Promote positivity in everyday interactions with customers and employees alike
- Knowledge of Mode and Excel preferred but not required
Experience:
- 2+ years of Implementation Project Management within Technology or Saas Solutions company, having organized and led technology implementations with repeated success
- Collaborative mindset with a willingness and capacity to learn and problem solve
- Proven ability to take initiative and work independently as needed
- Proven experience to manage difficult conversations with both internal and external stakeholders
- Experience in process improvement
- Experience working with CRM software
- Understanding of the Financial Services industry as it relates to Compliance, Risk and/or Legal is a plus
Benefits
Ascent employees enjoy many benefits and perks, including:
- Competitive compensation
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance; premiums paid 95% for the individual
- Medical HSA/FSAs
- Life insurance
- 401K
- Disability benefits
- Commuter benefits
- Dependent Care FSA
- Flexible PTO
- Professional development stipend
- Charitable matching gift program
- The opportunity to work with smart people on challenging problems!
Who We Are
Ascent is a Chicago-based startup that closed its Series B funding round of $19.3M in Fall 2019. The team has since grown to 45+ full time employees, led and supported by an executive team and board of directors with extensive experience in technology, regulatory compliance, sales and business operations. Ascent serves global financial institutions such as ING and CommBank, and is also working directly with regulators around the world in order to continually improve and advance our product.
A first mover in building proprietary RegulationAI™, Ascent delivers market leading regulatory knowledge as a groundbreaking new way for financial firms to manage compliance. It is our mission to help our customers protect their business from regulatory and reputational risk while reducing their overall cost to comply.
We prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion and believe strongly that a team with different backgrounds and perspectives produces better results. Together, we are solving a $64 billion global problem in regulatory compliance. Watch this video to learn more about what we do.
Ascent is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.