Senior Product Designer — United States — LinkedIn — 4491089236

About the Company

Ashby builds intelligent software that helps talent teams manage and improve their hiring processes. Its platform provides insights into hiring performance and automates or simplifies the tasks involved in coordinating candidates, interviewers, and hiring managers. Ashby focuses on creating products that are approachable for beginners while offering the depth and flexibility that experienced users need.

The company takes a collaborative approach to product design, encouraging product managers, engineers, and designers to share ownership of design decisions. The design team helps the wider product organization make better decisions, improves existing work, and takes on the most significant design challenges.

About the Role

Ashby is looking for a Product Designer with at least four years of experience designing desktop SaaS products. This role offers the opportunity to work across a broad product area, solve complex customer problems, and contribute to the development of Ashby’s design system.

You will take ownership of design challenges at different levels, from advising engineers on existing components to leading larger product features from discovery through delivery. The role requires independent thinking, strong design judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to work closely with product managers and engineers.

Ashby operates remotely and values designers who are comfortable taking initiative, documenting their decisions, and adapting their approach to the needs of each project.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise engineers on layout, typography, user flows, and other design decisions.

• Investigate customer problems by collaborating with go-to-market teams, speaking with customers, requesting data, and developing well-supported design proposals.

• Use Figma to explore design ideas and create visual materials that help align stakeholders.

• Write detailed design specification documents outlining proposals and supporting alignment on key product decisions.

• Take ownership of larger product features, considering Jobs-To-Be-Done, navigation, information architecture, layout, and interaction design.

• Improve and refine the design system to make it functional, visually consistent, and high quality.

• Work across different product areas, user types, and usability challenges.

• Apply design judgment and first-principles thinking to develop practical solutions to complex user problems.

• Help product managers and engineers make stronger design decisions while taking ownership of major design challenges.

• Use design heuristics, experience, and occasional user research to improve product usability and the overall experience.

Required Qualifications

• At least 4 years of product design experience in desktop SaaS.

• Ability to approach problems from first principles rather than relying solely on standard UX processes.

• Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to break down complex user problems by asking focused questions.

• Sufficient design experience and intuition to address many usability challenges without relying exclusively on data, metrics, or user research.

• Curiosity and resourcefulness to develop creative solutions and assess their risks appropriately.

• Strong skills in layout, navigation, information architecture, user interface design, and interaction design.

• Strong visual design skills, with close attention to craftsmanship and detail.

• Ability to work independently without extensive guidance from product managers or design management.

• Comfort with having design decisions and processes challenged by engineering and product teams.

• Willingness to document design proposals and decisions in writing.

• Ability to work across a broad design scope rather than focusing exclusively on areas such as interaction design or design systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working at an early-stage startup.

• Experience working as the sole designer on a team.

What to Expect in This Role

• Work across a broad product surface area, with opportunities to address different user needs and usability challenges.

• Contribute to Ashby’s approach to designing modern enterprise software.

• Take responsibility for different stages of the design process, with a strong focus on design craft.

• Use heuristics and experience to improve information architecture, navigation, interactions, and user interface patterns.

• Help build and develop Ashby’s design system.

• Work closely with engineers, product managers, go-to-market teams, and customers.

• Adapt your design process to each project rather than following a fixed sequence of briefs, wireframes, mockups, and handoffs.

Work Arrangement

• This is a remote position.

• The role involves independent work and close collaboration with product and engineering teams.

Interview Process

• Introduction Call: A 30-minute conversation about Ashby and your experience.

• Portfolio Review: A 45-minute review of your previous design work.

• Design Exercise and Portfolio Review: A 90-minute session consisting of a 45-minute design exercise and a 45-minute portfolio review with different team members. The exercise can be completed as a take-home assignment or a live whiteboarding exercise, depending on your preference.

• Virtual On-Site: An approximately two-hour session that includes meeting the team, a product teardown, and other activities.

Your hiring manager will be your main point of contact throughout the process and will help you prepare for interviews. You will also meet engineers and product managers, with 15 minutes in each interview reserved for your questions. Feedback can be provided if you are not selected for an offer and would like to receive it.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.

• A 10-year exercise window for stock options, giving employees more time to decide when they feel financially comfortable purchasing their options after leaving Ashby.

• Unlimited paid time off, with four weeks recommended annually.

• Twelve weeks of fully paid family leave for employees in the United States, with plans to expand the benefit to employees in other countries as situations arise.

• Generous budget for equipment, software, and office furniture.

• $100 per month for education, with higher-cost items such as conferences covered with manager approval.

• For employees in the United States, health insurance for employees and their dependents, with all premiums covered by Ashby.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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. The company is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcomes people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.