Senior Product Designer - Ashby

Hi! 👋 I'm Chris, head of Product Design at Ashby.

We're looking for a versatile, intrinsically motivated designer who is excited to contribute to rethinking how modern software is designed. At Ashby, you'll be part designer, part product manager, part consultant, and part design system manager.

How We Work

We take a principled approach to product development. Rather than traditional handoffs where a PM briefs a designer and mocks are passed to engineers, design is distributed based on project needs. The design department’s job is not to make every single design decision, but to equip our entire product team to make better decisions themselves while tackling the biggest design challenges.

We maintain a near seed-stage-like culture with fuzzy lines between functional roles, high autonomy, a focus on IC work, and an almost-no-meeting culture.

What We’re Building

Talent teams struggle to keep up with thousands of daily coordination tasks. Ashby provides intelligent, powerful software that automates and simplifies these workflows, replacing traditional spreadsheets with approachable yet powerful tools.

Your Qualifications

• 4+ years of product design experience in desktop SaaS.
• Ability to think from first principles instead of simply applying standard UX processes.
• Skill in breaking down complex user problems by asking targeted questions.
• Strong intuition to solve usability problems without relying solely on data, metrics, or heavy user research.
• Curious and resourceful approach to creative problem-solving and de-risking.
• Strong skills in layout, navigation, IA, UI, interaction design, visual craft, and details.
• Experience at an early-stage startup or time spent as a solo designer (bonus).

What You'll Do Weekly

• Consult for engineers who need help structuring layout, typography, and flows.
• Dig into problems by consulting GTM, talking to customers, and analyzing data.
• Use Figma to create visual artifacts and stakeholder alignment.
• Write specification docs detailing design proposals.
• Take ownership of larger product features (Jobs-To-Be-Done, navigation, IA, layout, interaction).
• Consolidate and refine our design system.

Interview Process

1. 30-minute introduction call
2. 45-minute portfolio review
3. 75-minute live whiteboarding design exercise and app teardown
4. 2.5-hour final round (meet the team + portfolio repeat with a founder)

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity with a 10-year exercise window for stock options.
• Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year.
• Twelve weeks of fully paid family leave in the US.
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
• $100/month education budget.
• Top-notch health insurance for US employees and dependents with all premiums covered.