About the role

Role overview

Ashby is hiring a Senior Product Designer to help rethink how modern software is designed. You’ll work across design, product thinking, and design systems—taking on responsibilities that may blend aspects of product design, product management, consulting, and design systems ownership.

How the team works

Product teams typically include a PM, a designer, and ~4–5 engineers.
The PM briefs the designer; the designer designs; engineers implement from mocks.
Ashby emphasizes a principled design approach: design effort is tailored to the actual need of each project (sometimes reuse existing components/documentation; other times you effectively own the project end-to-end).
The design department’s role is to equip the broader product team to make better design decisions while also tackling major design challenges.

What you’ll help build

Ashby’s product supports talent teams dealing with complex hiring coordination. The role focuses on improving workflows such as final-round scheduling—handling candidate availability, interviewer availability (“Calendar Tetris”), and load/training/shadowing constraints.

Team culture

Seed-stage-like culture with fuzzy role boundaries and high autonomy.
IC-focused, with an almost no-meeting culture.
Growth-stage metrics (e.g., strong retention and ARR) combined with seed-stage speed and low bureaucracy.

Requirements

Not explicitly listed in the provided text.

Nice-to-haves