Staff Product Designer

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: 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!

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, asking for data requests, and more in order to present confident assumptions about your proposals. * Using Figma to draw out your ideas and create visual artifacts for stakeholder alignment. * Writing specification docs (we call them specs!) that detail your design proposals. These documents are meant to get stakeholder alignment on the biggest decisions you want to make and are a core part of how we work at Ashby. * Taking ownership of larger product features and thinking through Jobs-To-Be-Done, navigation, information architecture, layout, interaction, etc. * Taking in customer feedback and using heuristics to build your own usability backlog and propose projects for engineers to take on. * Consolidating and refining our design system to be functional, aesthetic, and best-in-class.

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 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 having to rely 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. * You have 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 (like conferences) covered with manager approval. * If you're in the US, top-notch health insurance for you and your dependents with all premiums covered by us.