Senior Product Designer, Ashby
$150-210k
+ Equity. For Canada based applicants the salary is: CA$150K – CA$180K
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All-in-one recruiting software
Open for applications
All-in-one recruiting software
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$150-210k
+ Equity. For Canada based applicants the salary is: CA$150K – CA$180K
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To redefine the applicant tracking system (ATS) category, providing talent teams with analytics, workflows and automation.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of product design experience in desktop SaaS
- Able to think from first principles instead of simply applying the “standard” UX processes
- Can break down complex user problems by asking questions that narrow down the solution space
- Enough experience that your intuition can solve many 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
- Strong skills in layout, navigation, IA, UI, and interaction design
- Strong visual design skills and obsession with craft & details
- As a bonus, you have experience at an early-stage startup or have spent time as a solo designer on a team
What the job involves
- 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
- Consolidating and refining our design system to be functional, aesthetic, and best-in-class
Application process
- At Ashby, our team and interview process want to help you show your best self. We’ll dive into past projects and simulate working together and talking through decisions. Our interview process is four rounds with some casual Zoom (or in-person) coffee in between to get to know each other:
- 30-minute introduction call to discuss Ashby and your experience
- 45-minute portfolio review
- 90-minute design exercise & portfolio review (45m each). Portfolio review is a repeat but with different team members. The exercise can be a take-home or a live whiteboarding exercise, whichever you're more comfortable with!
- A virtual on-site of roughly 2 hrs. This will include meeting the team, a product teardown, and more!
- Your hiring manager will be your main point of contact and prepare you for interviews. You’ll meet other engineers and product managers as well (with 15 minutes in each interview to ask them questions). If we don’t give an offer, we’ll provide feedback if you'd like it!
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 and grow its customer success and community initiatives.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
32% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2025
$50m
SERIES D
Jun 2024
$30m
SERIES C
Total funding: $114.7m
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
- Twelve weeks of fully paid family leave 🇺🇸
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 Engineering)VP of Engineer at Ashby. Previously a Senior Product Manager at Lob and a Senior Product Manager at PlanGrid.
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