Manager, IT End User Services

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

💻 IT Support

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Ascend

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2023

🤝 B2B

💼 Consulting

💰 $2M Seed Round - Ascend on 2025-02

B2B • Consulting

Ascend is a modern platform that partners with entrepreneurial CPA firms, bringing the resources and advantages of a large accounting firm while preserving each firm's independence. Backed by people-focused private equity firm Alpine Investors and founded in January 2023, Ascend provides growth capital, talent acquisition and development, transformative technology, a catalytic leadership system, shared back-office services, and modernized equity incentives to help regional accounting firms scale. The company is already recognized as a Top 25 firm by Accounting Today.

📋 Description

• Build and run an Ascend-owned, AI-first service desk trusted by Partner Firms • Oversee the regional service desk organization, including four Regional IT Support Leads and their L2 IT Support Technician teams • Deliver consistent, high-quality support across every region while shifting work toward self-service and AI resolution • Lead, hire, and develop Regional IT Support Leads and regional L2 IT Support Technicians through them • Conduct scorecard reviews and performance evaluations • Build a team with deep accounting industry and application knowledge, ensuring staffing, training, and backup coverage • Plan staffing and coverage across East and West shifts, on-call P1/VIP paging, and busy-season weekend coverage • Manage the team within approved headcount and budget • Own service desk performance using metrics including AI resolution, first-touch resolution, SLA attainment, ticket aging, requester satisfaction, NPS, process adherence, and on-site presence • Report weekly to IT leadership and support monthly readouts to the Executive Leadership Team and Regional Presidents • Deliver 95%+ SLA attainment and 80%+ first-touch resolution across regions • Identify meaningful metrics and trends, recommend actions, and challenge incomplete scorecards • Partner with change and problem management owners to convert recurring issues into problem records and permanent fixes • Own complex, high-visibility, VIP, and multi-firm escalations, escalating only the most serious matters to IT Operations leadership with context and recommendations • Capture qualitative feedback from firm leadership and Regional Presidents • Ensure monthly operations reviews and quarterly site visits for every Partner Firm • Maintain consistent queue management, ticket hygiene, escalation paths, change catalog, and Freshservice as the system of record • Control aging tickets and open queues through weekly reviews and documented resolution plans • Lead the Shift Left program with the AI and automation team, prioritizing self-service and AI-resolvable requests • Maintain high-quality Knowledge Base and how-to articles to expand AI-first incident resolution • Coordinate Technology Stack Transition for newly joining Partner Firms, including regional alignment, hypercare, and evaluation of inherited firm IT staff • Report to Ascend’s IT Operations leadership

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in IT service delivery • 3+ years leading support teams • Experience leading leaders and managing performance through others strongly preferred • Public accounting or professional services industry experience strongly preferred • Familiarity with accounting industry applications strongly preferred • Bachelor’s degree preferred • ITIL Foundation certification preferred • Strong command of ITIL service management practices across incident, request, problem, and change • Data-driven approach to service management, with hands-on experience using ITSM reporting to manage SLA, satisfaction, and NPS • Freshservice experience a plus • Driver mentality with a bias for action, high standards, and an ownership mindset • Reliable, process-driven, and comfortable holding teams accountable • Superior EQ and influencing skills • Clear, confident executive communication with Partner Firm and Ascend leadership • Proven ability to coordinate cross-functionally with Applications, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Integration teams • Continuous improvement and Shift Left mindset • Genuine enthusiasm for AI-first service delivery

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, marital status, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic • Entrepreneurial, growth-oriented culture • Opportunities to work with AI and automation initiatives • Collaboration with cross-functional technology teams • Employee development through leadership and team-building responsibilities