Ascend Capital - Founder's Office Role - Product & Operations Execution - FinTech

ASCEND CAPITAL

Founder's Office (Product & Operations Execution)

Experience: 0-3 years | Location: Jaipur (In-office)

Role Overview

Work directly with the founders to convert priorities into action across the business. This is a high-ownership, high-visibility role at the center of the company you'll drive execution across product, operations, credit, and customer experience, building the systems (SOPs, MIS, trackers) that keep a fast-moving lending business running with speed and accuracy.

Key Responsibilities

• Work directly with the founders, who will assign priority tasks and connect with you regularly for execution and follow-ups.
• Convert business and product priorities into clear execution plans with owners, timelines, and dependencies.
• Drive end-to-end execution across onboarding, credit, documentation, disbursement, servicing, and collections handoffs.
• Identify process gaps, delays, and repeated errors; perform root-cause analysis and implement fixes.
• Create and maintain SOPs, checklists, and templates; ensure teams follow them on the ground.
• Build and track basic MIS and dashboards (TATs, drop-offs, approvals, exceptions, and customer issues).
• Act as the founders' extended arm across Operations, Credit/Risk, Tech, Sales, Customer Support, and Collections to unblock issues.
• Track execution risks across the business and drive closure.
• Gather customer and internal feedback and convert it into measurable improvements.

What we're Looking For

• 0-3 years experience in operations, product ops, fintech/NBFC, consulting, program execution, founder's office, or start-up roles.
• Strong ownership mind-set with ability to drive closure independently.
• Ability to diagnose problems using data and on-ground signals.
• Comfort with Excel / Google Sheets for trackers and MIS.
• Clear communicator with cross-functional coordination skills.
• High learning agility and customer-first mind-set.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to fintech / NBFC operations
• Basic understanding of lending workflows
• Familiarity with automation or AI tools for operations

Why Join Ascend Capital

• Direct exposure to founders and the company's highest-priority decisions
• Real ownership on high-impact problems, from day one
• Cross-functional exposure across credit, risk, ops, collections, and tech
• A Launchpad role to understand how the entire business works
• Opportunity to build scalable processes that shape how the company runs