Responsibilities
- part designer, part product manager, part consultant, and part design system manager (or some combination of the 4!)
- design is required in varying degrees on each project
- own a project from beginning to end
- provide project updates and managing resources
- equip our entire product team to make better decisions themselves, as well as edit decisions that PMs/Engineers choose to make
- tackling the biggest design challenges ourselves
- 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
- Taking ownership of larger product features and thinking through Jobs-To-Be-Done, navigation, information architecture, layout, interaction, etc
- Taking in customer feedback and using heuristics to build your own usability backlog and propose projects for engineers to take on
- Consolidating and refining our design system to be functional, aesthetic, and best-in-class
Requirements
- 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
Nice to Have
- experience at an early-stage startup or have spent time as a solo designer on a team
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- 10-year exercise window for stock options
- Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year
- Twelve weeks of fully paid family leave in the US
- Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget
- $100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval
- top-notch health insurance for you and your dependents with all premiums covered by us
Team
Structure: product teams always consisted of a product manager, a designer, and ~4-5 engineers
Additional Information
- Ashby operates remotely
- You shouldn’t feel pressure to purchase stock options if you leave Ashby —do it when you feel financially comfortable
- Expect “Vacation?” in our one-on-one agenda until you start taking it
