Staff Product Designer

The role

You will act as a designer, product manager, consultant, and design system manager. You will consult for engineers, write specification docs, and take ownership of large product features.

What you will do

• Consulting for engineers who need help structuring layout, typography, flows, etc.
• Digging into problems by consulting GTM, talking to customers, and asking for data requests.
• Using Figma to draw out ideas and create visual artifacts for stakeholder alignment.
• Writing specification docs that detail design proposals.
• Taking ownership of larger product features including JTBD, navigation, IA, layout, and interaction.
• Taking in customer feedback and using heuristics to build a usability backlog.
• Consolidating and refining the design system.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of product design experience
• Majority of experience 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
• Able to leverage designers' superpowers to influence engineering, product, and the rest of the company
• Able to create standards and principles to improve design quality across the product org
• Able to think from first principles
• Enough experience that intuition can solve most usability problems without relying solely on data, metrics, or user research
• Curious and resourceful enough to come up with creative solutions and de-risk them
• Best-in-class skills in layout, navigation, IA, UI, and interaction design
• Obsession with craft and details

Nice to have

• Experience at an early-stage startup
• Time spent 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
• Top-notch health insurance for US employees and dependents with all premiums covered

Before you apply

• Interview process includes a 30m introduction call
• Interview process includes a 45m portfolio review
• Interview process includes a 75m design exercise and app teardown
• Interview process includes a 2.5hr final round

About the company

Ashby provides talent teams with intelligent and powerful software that provides insights and automates tasks. The company is growing >100% year-over-year and has customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake.