[Hiring] Staff Product Designer @Ashby

Role Description

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!).

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.

• Design is required in varying degrees on each project.
• Ownership of projects from beginning to end.
• Design decisions should be owned by the product team collectively.
• Maintain a near seed-stage-like culture with fuzzy lines between functional roles.
• Focus on IC-work with an almost-no-meeting culture.

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 speak to patterns of the highest functioning design teams and how to create an environment of high performance.
• 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.
• Enough experience that your intuition can solve most usability problems without relying solely on data & metrics or conducting user research.
• Curious & resourceful enough to come up with creative solutions and de-risk them appropriately.
• Best-in-class skills in layout, navigation, IA, UI, and interaction design.
• Obsession with craft & details.

Requirements

• Experience at an early-stage startup or have spent time as a solo designer on a team.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• 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 with more expensive items covered with manager approval.
• Top-notch health insurance for you and your dependents with all premiums covered by us.

Interview Process

• 30-minute introduction call to discuss Ashby and your experience.
• 45-minute portfolio review.
• 135-minute design exercise, portfolio deep dive, and meet the CEO.
• 90-minute meet the team + an app teardown.