Content Lead, Ashby
Talent Trends, EMEA
£85-125k
OTE
EUR OTE €95K – €140K. Plus equity
All-in-one recruiting software
Be an early applicant
All-in-one recruiting software
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
£85-125k
OTE
EUR OTE €95K – €140K. Plus equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To redefine the applicant tracking system (ATS) category, providing talent teams with analytics, workflows and automation.
Role
Who you are
- You’re motivated by building something foundational. You see Talent Trends not as a project but as a signature brand pillar that you’ll shape, grow, and evolve
- You’re equally comfortable with big-picture strategy and end-to-end ownership, setting vision, defining cadence, and also rolling up your sleeves to bring it to life
- You get energy from data-driven storytelling, turning complex findings into clear, compelling narratives that influence how talent and recruiting experts think and act
- You thrive at cross-functional leadership, aligning Data, Design, and Executives around a shared vision, while making decisive calls to keep projects moving
- You see distribution as a creative strategy, not afterthought. You’re excited to experiment with how insights show up across channels, from LinkedIn to events to premium digital experiences,
- You want to grow as a market-facing voice by building credibility as the person shaping how the industry consumes recruiting benchmarks and insights through written, audio, and video forms
- You have the type of charisma that makes speaking in front of a crowd feel second-nature, where you can host a panel or command a crowd comfortably and naturally
What the job involves
- Evolve Ashby’s Talent Trends strategy. You’ll take full ownership of how Talent Trends grows into a defining Ashby content pillar. This means setting the editorial vision, identifying the most critical questions to answer for recruiting leaders, and continuously innovating on format, depth, and storytelling to ensure Ashby becomes synonymous with talent data
- Be the founder of the GTM strategy for Talent Trends. You won’t just create reports, you’ll define cadence, set benchmarks for success, and own how these insights reach and educate the market. From LinkedIn to newsletters, from demand gen campaigns to live events, you’ll drive creative and consistent ways to bring Talent Trends to life across channels by working with channel owners
- Lead cross-functional collaboration with authority. You’ll be the connective tissue across Data, Design, and Leadership — aligning stakeholders, making tough calls on scope, and ensuring every deliverable meets the bar of clarity, impact, and brand alignment
- Elevate Ashby’s voice in the market. You’ll grow into the external presence for Ashby’s insights, whether through publishing consistently on LinkedIn, ghostwriting for leadership, or representing Talent Trends through video or audio formats. Hosting a YouTube series would not be out of question for the kind of speaking level work and comfort with data you should have to thrive in this role
- Raise the bar on quality and impact. You’ll champion design excellence, richer insight development, and stronger distribution, ensuring that Talent Trends not only informs but also shapes the conversation in the recruiting industry
- Follow your intuition over playbooks (it’s one of our 10 Operating Principles). We rarely follow traditional content playbooks or look at what competitors are writing about. We believe in knowing our customer closely and evolving our work to meet their needs — even if that means trying something never been done or that historically hasn’t worked. While it’s helpful to bring knowledge of past content programs you’ve run, we encourage you to think freely and build confidence in your intuition
- Own all the operational work around your content programs. Everyone on the marketing team writes their own copy for social media, landing pages, emails, and beyond. We expect you to be an end-to-end marketer who can strategically drive your work forward versus rely on others to fill in the gaps (or at the minimum, be comfortable getting uncomfortable to learn)
Application process
- Deadline to Apply 29 October 2025 at 16:00 GMT
- 30-minute intro call (Recruiter Screen)
- 45-minute interview with Anum Hussain (Hiring Manager)
- 30-minute interview with Harriet Johnston (VP, Marketing)
- 30-minute interview with Kevin Conolly, Head of Data
- A take home assignment which you’ll have 30 mins to discuss with the hiring team
- A virtual on-site of 45 mins with a panel of interviewers – this will be with Elizabel, Content Lead, and Kayla, Community Lead
- 30-minute interview with Benji (CEO)
Our take
Reportedly, 50% of employers don’t use applicant tracking systems, largely because of blockers with implementation or insufficient buy-in from top management. Ashby's co-founder and CEO, Benji Encz, experienced first-hand how existing solutions failed to support hyper-growth hiring needs whilst working at PlanGrid, which is in part what led to the creation of the company.
Ashby is looking to redefine the ATS category - providing talent teams with analytics, workflows and automation - and intends to replace solutions from well-established vendors like Greenhouse and Lever with algorithms. The company's AI can schedule interviews and infer demographic data, which clients use for aggregate analyses of DEI hiring metrics.
The market for recruitment software could potentially reach $3.5 billion by 2030. Unsurprisingly, there is now a growing number of startups emerging to compete for a slice of it. Despite the crowded market and having only emerged from stealth in 2022, Ashby has already secured over 500 clients (including high-profile customers like Notion and Figma). The company has also attracted impressive funding which will be used to expand its product offering beyond what is typically expected from an ATS.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2025
$50m
SERIES D
Jun 2024
$30m
SERIES C
Total funding: $114.5m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year
- 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
- Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget
- $100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Benjamin Encz
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously the Director of Engineering and Part-Time Recruitment Operations at PlanGrid. They also worked as a Software Engineer at Make School and was a Lecturer at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW).
Abhik Pramanik
(Co-Founder)VP of Engineer at Ashby. Previously a Senior Product Manager at Lob and a Senior Product Manager at PlanGrid.
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