Staff Product Designer

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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.

Creating leverage and impact far and above what you'd see in a typical EPD product team structure. You won’t be a cog in the wheel, the wheel is not very big!
Getting to work on all parts of a massive product surface area - spanning many user types, JTBDs, usability challenges, etc. Unlike in other organizations, you won’t be stuck working on one problem for many years.
Helping reinvent the design model for modern enterprise software—you don’t have to build wireframes, user journeys, personas, etc. What matters is solving a customer’s problem; what tools you use are up to you.
Covering all parts of the design process with a focus on design craft. You'll still be doing the occasional user research interview but will be focused on using heuristics & experience to improve our IA, navigation, interactions, UI patterns, and more.
Helping build our design system from (almost) the ground up.

You feel uncomfortable designing independently without much guidance from a PM or design management.
You’re uncomfortable having your decisions and process being challenged constantly by engineering & product.
You prefer an in-person role over remote (Ashby operates remotely).
You dislike written documentation.
You want a set structure and rhythm to your projects.PM gives you a brief, you do wireframes, then mocks, then pass off work to engineers. Rinse and repeat.
PM gives you a brief, you do wireframes, then mocks, then pass off work to engineers. Rinse and repeat.
You prefer a narrow job scope - interaction design only, design system only, etc.

PM gives you a brief, you do wireframes, then mocks, then pass off work to engineers. Rinse and repeat.

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.

Competitive salary and equity.
10-year exercise window for stock options. You shouldn’t feel pressure to purchase stock options if you leave Ashby —do it when you feel financially comfortable. This is one of the reasons I joined personally - not a lot of startups do this.
Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year. Expect “Vacation?” in our one-on-one agenda until you start taking it.
Twelve weeks of fully paid family leave in the US. We plan to expand this to employees in other countries as situations arise.
Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget. Get what you need to be happy and productive!
$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.

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