Partner | Head of Technology

Join a rapidly growing AI startup helping businesses 10x, 10x faster.

Role

• Title: Partner, Head of Technology

• Compensation: $160,000 - $200,000

• Location: Remote

• Commitment: Full-time

• Benefits: Health, Dental, Vision, and Insurance Coverage

• Bonus: $20,000 bonus potential based on company performance

• Equity: Senior Partner Level Equity

About Ascendancy
Ascendancy helps the world’s most ambitious companies grow through strategic, high-trust relationships. We combine AI-powered network intelligence with warm, organic outreach to get our clients in the room with the right people, faster. We’re well funded, projecting $2M in ARR for 2025 and on a clear path to $8M+ in 2026. This is a rare opportunity to join a high-growth startup that’s low-risk, high-impact, and offers meaningful ownership and responsibility from day one.

Position’s Core Function

The Head of Technology will lead the creation of a first-of-its-kind Network OS: an AI-powered platform that maps, tracks, and activates human relationship capital at scale. This tool will give CEOs instant visibility into their networks, outperform LinkedIn for opportunity sourcing, surpass CRMs for warm intros, and offer richer, more meaningful connections than other relationship tracking platforms. It will visualize deep network graphs across VIP stakeholders—investors, board members, shareholders—and power Ascendancy’s mission to become one call away from every major global leader, investor, and Fortune 5000 CEO.

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust backend services and APIs to power our core platform

• Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines to support internal analytics and AI/ML applications

• Manage and optimize Ascendancy’s data lake/warehouse architecture

• Design data workflows that integrate and experiment with ML models

• Ensure high performance, security, and reliability across backend systems

• Lead infrastructure decisions, especially related to data governance and scalability

• Be a critical strategic thought-partner for developing Ascendancy’s long-term operations needs

Desired Experience & Qualifications

• Proficiency with Python, SQL, and modern backend frameworks (e.g., FastAPI, Django, Node.js)

• Experience with data pipeline tools (e.g., Airflow, dbt, Kafka, Spark, etc.)

• Comfortable working with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)

• Solid understanding of relational and non-relational databases

• Interest in AI/ML workflows (working with ML engineers, model training, or building inference pipelines)

• Extremely detail-oriented, adaptive, collaborative growth mindset, proactive

• Solid organizational, analytical, logical reasoning, oral, and written presentation skills

• Comfortable and high stress, fast paced environment

• Driven by a vision of technology that brings people closer—not further apart.