Head of QA, Ashby
$150-210k
For Canadian applicants: CA$130K – CA$220K + Equity in all locations
All-in-one recruiting software
Job no longer available
All-in-one recruiting software
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$150-210k
For Canadian applicants: CA$130K – CA$220K + Equity in all locations
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
- I’m looking for someone exacting who manages their team with both empathy and rigor. While we’re open to folks with different levels of experience (hence the wide compensation range), we have some minimum requirements:
- You work remotely in the US or Canada. We prefer folks who can overlap with EMEA time zones, as we will add QA team members in EMEA to support our growing EMEA Engineering team
- You’ve managed a team of at least two QA analysts or engineers. We want someone with great management instincts that have already been tested
- You’ve set a performance standard (e.g., levels, individual and team metrics). This means you've documented a standard, measured that standard, and held your team accountable
- You’ve been integral to capacity planning for a QA team. Our QA team needs to grow, and you’ll need to put together an argument about when and where
- You’ve evaluated and implemented software that improves or automates QA processes
- You’ve led QA process changes as an IC or manager with successful outcomes
What the job involves
- Hi 👋🏾 I’m Abhik, Ashby’s Co-Founder and VP of Engineering
- Ashby builds software that enables talent teams to run an efficient and delightful hiring process
- Our software simplifies and automates complex workflows (like scheduling a candidate) and bundles what are traditionally different software tools into one
- As a result, our software is comprehensive and deep
- It covers the feature set of at least four other products
- It models the complexity of hiring at the scale of thousands of employees while deeply integrating with other systems like email and calendar
- We accomplish much of this by creating reusable building blocks (e.g. , a form builder for surveys and application forms) to provide a powerful feature set out-of-the-box while being familiar and easy to use
- Our approach presents some exciting challenges in QA-ing our software
- First, it requires a deep understanding of recruiting to empower the creation of QA plans that cover use cases across our wide array of features and the seams between them
- Second, it requires QA to be product experts to understand how a change (particularly to a building block) can propagate through our features to identify edge cases
- You will lead our QA team of three QA analysts to help us meet our unique challenges
- You will set the larger vision on how QA evolves to reduce regressions while maintaining a high shipping velocity as the product, team, customer base, and customer size grow
- Our team has already adopted QA tools (TestRail, Testim) and established some processes and metrics, so you’ll inherit a reasonably mature team for its size (versus starting from scratch)
- This role will report to me and work closely with our Director of Engineering in EMEA, Colin
- He has a passion for QA and will lead our testing strategy in Engineering
- Together, you’ll set an industry-leading standard for software quality
Application process
- At Ashby, our team and interview process want to help you show your best self. We’ll dive into past work and simulate working together
- Our interview process is six rounds in the following order:
- Recruiter Intro Call - 30m
- Hiring Manager Intro Call - 30m: You and I will chat about your application questions and answer any questions you have about the role
- Technical Screen - 30m: We’ll send over documentation for a small feature in Ashby and talk live about how you’d approach building a QA plan
- Leadership Screen - 60m: You and I will talk through your past experiences managing a team
- Technical Take Home - 3h 30m: As a take-home, you build a QA plan for a feature in Ashby and discuss it live with three members of our team
- Meet the Team - 2h 45m: You meet folks on the QA and Engineering teams. The sessions are primarily behavioral questions, with one session presenting a product you’ve worked on in the past to help us understand the depth of your product knowledge
- At each round, you’ll have an opportunity to ask questions of the team. After the recruiter screen, I will be your main point of contact and prepare you for interviews. If we don’t give an offer, we’ll provide feedback!
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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