Staff 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 (or some combination of the 4!). We do design differently here, and if that excites you, read on.

Our unique approach is working - we're growing >100% year-over-year and have notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake. Our growth and retention metrics are best-in-class among our peers: we have tens of millions in ARR, very low churn, and many years of runway. We're backed by amazing investors like Y Combinator, Elad Gil, Lachy Groom, and many more!

How We Work

Unlike traditional product teams where designers only receive briefs and pass mocks to engineers, we take a more principled approach. Design is required in varying degrees on each project. Sometimes all that's needed is reusing components, while other times you will effectively own a project from beginning to end as a product manager.

The design department’s job at Ashby is not to make every single design decision, but to equip our entire product team to make better decisions themselves, as well as edit decisions that PMs/Engineers choose to make.

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

What We’re Building

Talent teams aspire to build a hiring process that identifies great candidates, moves them quickly through the interview process, and provides an excellent experience. To accomplish this, recruiters perform thousands of daily tasks to coordinate and relay information.

Ashby provides talent teams with intelligent and powerful software that provides insights into where they’re failing and automates or simplifies many of the tasks they’re underwater with. We put a lot of effort into designing products that are approachable to beginners but mastered and extended by power users.

Your Qualifications

• 10+ years of product design experience, with the majority being in desktop SaaS.
• Able to take huge, ambiguous projects and break them down into actionable parts.
• Able to leverage designers' superpowers to influence engineering, product, and the rest of the company.
• Able to create standards and principles that will help improve the quality of design across the product org.
• Able to think from first principles instead of simply applying the “standard” UX processes.
• Best-in-class skills in layout, navigation, IA, UI, and interaction design.
• Obsession with craft & details.
• Experience at an early-stage startup or time as a solo designer on a team.

On a Weekly Basis You Will Find Yourself

• Consulting for engineers who need help structuring layout, typography, flows, etc.
• Digging into problems by consulting GTM, talking to customers, and analyzing data to present confident assumptions.
• Using Figma to draw out your ideas and create visual artifacts for stakeholder alignment.
• Writing specification docs detailing your design proposals.
• Taking ownership of larger product features and thinking through Jobs-To-Be-Done, navigation, information architecture, and layout.
• Consolidating and refining our design system to be functional, aesthetic, and best-in-class.

Interview Process

1. 30m introduction call to discuss Ashby and your experience.
2. 45m portfolio review.
3. 75m design exercise and app teardown (live whiteboarding session).
4. 2.5hr final round: meet the team + portfolio repeat with a founder.