Support Workforce Management Lead, Ashby
Americas
$90-115k
+ Stock options
All-in-one recruiting software
Be an early applicant
All-in-one recruiting software
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$90-115k
+ Stock options
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
- This role is for someone who loves forecasting and capacity planning, but also thrives in ambiguity, enjoys creative problem-solving, and sees WFM as a strategic function, rather than a compliance exercise
- Experience in Workforce Management, capacity planning, or operational planning in a Support, CX, or technical services environment
- Strong understanding of forecasting methodologies, staffing models, and coverage strategies
- Comfort operating without an existing WFM playbook and building systems from scratch
- Highly analytical with the ability to turn complex data into clear insights and recommendations
- Skilled at building models that account for uncertainty, variability, and change
- Experience working with Support metrics and SLAs in a nuanced, non-mechanical way
- Deep respect for the expertise of Support professionals and an appreciation for flexible, trust-based environments
- Strong communicator who can explain tradeoffs and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Comfortable partnering across leadership levels
- You Should Apply If:
- You love using data to solve ambiguous problems and inform strategic decisions
- You see WFM as an enabling function, not a policing one
- You enjoy designing systems that can evolve as the business changes
- You’re excited to partner with experienced, Technical Support professionals who value autonomy and impact
- You’re motivated by building something foundational that will shape how Support scales long-term
What the job involves
- This is not a traditional WFM role in a call center environment
- Our Support team is highly tenured, deeply technical, and made up of thoughtful practitioners who regularly contribute beyond tickets by partnering on projects, enabling self-service, shaping tooling, and influencing product direction
- Your role will be to design and own the systems that allow this team to do their best work while still meeting our SLA commitments as customer needs evolve
- About the Role:
- As the Workforce Management Lead, you’ll build Ashby’s WFM function from the ground up
- You’ll own forecasting, capacity modeling, and schedule design across a global Support organization, ensuring we can meet SLAs while remaining flexible enough to experiment with new channels, offerings, and ways of working
- You’ll partner closely with Support Leadership and Support Operations to translate business goals into practical staffing plans
- You’ll balance data rigor with human judgment while recognizing that our team’s expertise is a feature, not a constraint, and that great workforce planning enables impact beyond ticket queues
- Since this is a brand-new function, you’ll have significant influence over how WFM operates at Ashby, setting the foundation for a scalable, adaptable, and people-centric approach
- Forecasting & Capacity Planning
- Own short- and long-term forecasting models across regions, channels, and customer segments
- Translate growth projections, seasonality, and product changes into actionable capacity plans
- Model multiple scenarios (e.g. new channels, enterprise coverage shifts, project allocations) to support informed decision-making
- Scheduling & Coverage Strategy
- Design and maintain global schedules that align required coverage with our headcount and skill distribution
- Partner with Support Managers to evolve schedules as the team grows, regions expand, and needs change
- Ensure coverage plans support SLA attainment as part of a holistic vision of Support success
- Strategic Enablement (Not Just Adherence)
- Work with a tenured, trusted Support team where flexibility, judgment, and expertise are expected
- Enable Support team members to contribute to projects, experiments, and cross-functional initiatives while maintaining customer commitments
- Help leadership understand tradeoffs between capacity, quality, and strategic investment
- Data, Insights & Decision Support
- Build and maintain dashboards and models that provide visibility into capacity health, risk, and opportunity
- Surface insights that inform hiring plans, regional strategy, and operational priorities
- Continuously refine assumptions and models as customer behavior and support delivery evolve
- Cross-Functional Partnership
- Partner closely with Support Leadership, Operations, Enablement, and Product to align workforce planning with company goals
- Act as a thought partner in conversations about new support offerings, channel experiments, and service levels
- Advocate for sustainable, human-centered workforce decisions that scale with the business
- Our Support team is a part of our Customer Success department, and thus is a part of our Go To Market function. Here are a few points that should give you an idea of what it is like to work with us:
- We spend a lot of time building best-in-class products, since we believe a highly differentiated product is easier to sell
- We also spend a lot of time building a best-in-class customer experience. We aim to offer deep expertise whenever we interact with prospects and customers (we hope our 9.8 Support rating on G2 signals this)
- We strongly believe that small teams with very talented people and the right work environment deliver much high performance and we're built accordingly
Application process
- Our interview process is thorough — we aim to ensure each person that joins the team is the right fit for Ashby and will provide ample information for you to assess if Ashby is the right fit for you. The process for this role is as follows:
- Intro Call with Recruiting - 30 Minutes
- Hiring Manager Interview - 45-60 Minutes
- Take Home Assessment - 1 week to complete
- Final Round interview
- Deadline to Apply: February 11, 2026 at 10:00 PM GMT
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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