Product Designer

Overview

Staff Product Designer role e pay range: $/yr - $/yr
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This is a senior product design role focused on leading design work across a growing, remote-first software company that builds AI-powered talent and hiring software. You will work with product and engineering teams to design systems, interfaces, and experiences that scale with the product and customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake.

Ashby provides talent teams with intelligent software to improve hiring processes, automate tasks, and design approachable products that are powerful for power users. The team emphasizes design collaboration, product thinking, and building a scalable design system from early stages.

• 10+ years of product design experience, with the majority in desktop SaaS
• Able to take large, ambiguous projects and break them into actionable parts
• Experience describing patterns of high-performing design teams and creating environments of high performance
• Ability to influence engineering, product, and the broader company through design leadership
• Ability to create standards and principles to improve design quality across the product org
• Strong first-principles thinking beyond standard UX processes
• Intuition to solve usability problems without relying solely on data or user research
• Curiosity and resourcefulness to devise creative, de-risked solutions
• Excellent skills in layout, navigation, IA, UI, and interaction design
• Obsessive attention to craft and details
• Experience at an early-stage startup or as a solo designer on a team

You may want to apply if you’re excited about:

• Delivering impact beyond typical design team scopes
• Working across a large product surface with multiple user types and JTBDs
• Reinventing design models for modern enterprise software and solving customer problems
• Contributing across the design process with a focus on craft and heuristics
• Building and evolving a design system from the ground up

Conversely, You May Not Want To Apply If

• You require heavy PM/design management guidance
• You seek constant policing of decisions by management
• You prefer in-person roles over remote (Ashby is remote)
• You dislike written documentation
• You want a fixed project rhythm or narrow scope (e.g., only UI or only design system)

On a Weekly Basis You Will Find Yourself

• Consulting with engineers on layout, typography, flows, etc.
• Gaining insights from GTM and customer conversations to inform proposals
• Using Figma to create visuals for stakeholder alignment
• Writing specifications to align stakeholders on major design decisions
• Taking ownership of larger product features and considering JTBD, IA, navigation, layout, and interactions
• Incorporating customer feedback and building a usability backlog
• Refining and consolidating the design system for functionality and aesthetics

Four rounds with some casual Zoom time in between to get to know each other. Process includes:

• 30-minute intro call
• 45-minute portfolio review
• 135-minute design exercise and portfolio deep dive with the CEO
• 90-minute meet the team and app teardown

You’ll meet engineers and product managers as part of the process. Feedback is provided if there isn’t an offer.

• Competitive salary and equity
• 10-year exercise window for stock options
• Unlimited PTO with recommended four weeks per year
• Twelve weeks of fully paid family leave in the US (with expansion plans)
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget
• $100/month education budget for professional development
• Health insurance for you and dependents (premium covered where applicable)

Ashby provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Mid-Senior level

Full-time

Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

Industries:
Software Development