Senior Product Manager, Ashby
$180-260k
Plus equity. EMEA Remote €117K – €185K. Plus equity
All-in-one recruiting software
Open for applications
All-in-one recruiting software
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$180-260k
Plus equity. EMEA Remote €117K – €185K. 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 have an unnatural curiosity and excitement about the end-user and the jobs they do
- 💻 You bring an Engineering mindset to product problems and can think through edge cases and understand how to extend our underlying platform to create leverage
- 🖼 You can demonstrate taste - you care about the quality of the products you build and use
- ✍️ You're an excellent writer and synthesizer; you bring product knowledge and clarity to the entire organization and enable Engineers with product insights
- 🧩 You can build a thesis for prioritization and communicate priorities using a sound strategy that combines principled thinking, research, and data
- ⚙️ You leverage tools and processes to build operational excellence into your product process
- 💼 You have a strong business sense and understand how product and GTM should collaborate, how your features may be monetized, and how product priorities fit into larger business priorities
What the job involves
- In the long term, you will own the entire roadmap for a large portion of Ashby's existing modules
- You will be a significant contributor to our overall product strategy and hugely impact our product velocity and quality
- In the short term, you will collaborate closely with me and focus more on execution of individual projects as you familiarize yourself with our space, customers, and how we do product at Ashby
- Because we give Engineers a lot of product ownership and autonomy you can focus on high leverage activities instead of spelling out user stories and managing sprints (we are decidedly low process on Product/Engineering)
Application process
- Intro Call with Benji (Co-Founder and CEO) - 20 mins
- Product Experience Deep Dive - 45 mins
- Assignment
- Prepare Assignment Async
- Present Results - 60 mins
- Final Round Interview - 4 hours
- Mostly focused on cross-functional Interviews to meet more of the team. This is a critical hire for us and a role that will touch a lot of functions - we want to make sure you'll meet folks you'll be working closely with
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.
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Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
32% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2024
$30m
SERIES C
Sep 2022
$21.5m
SERIES B
Total funding: $64.5m
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
- Twelve weeks of fully paid family leave 🇺🇸
Company values
- Apply Principled Thinking Over Experience
- Reflect On And Optimize How You And Your Team Use Your Time
- Apply Thoughtful Communication
- Prioritize Ownership
- Be Frustratingly Patient About Hiring
- Optimize For The Long Term, But, Move With Urgency
- Aim High
- Push For Continuous Improvement
- Care Deeply About Our Customers
- Foster Constructive Debate And Feedback
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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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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