Senior Product Designer

Role overview

As a Senior Product Designer at Ashby, you’ll be a versatile design partner who works across product design, product management thinking, and design systems leadership. The role is designed for someone who can take ownership, contribute to rethinking how modern software is designed, and help the broader product team make better design decisions.

How you’ll work

• Work closely with product managers and engineers (typical team structure: PM + Designer + ~4–5 engineers).
• Produce designs and hand off usable mocks to engineers.
• Apply Ashby’s “principled design” approach:
  • Not every problem needs full design—sometimes the best contribution is enabling engineers to reuse components and follow clear documentation.
  • In larger, end-to-end projects, you may effectively own the work like a product manager (project updates, resourcing, and execution), not just produce screens.
• Support the philosophy that design is owned by the whole product team, not only by a standalone design org.
• Equip PMs/Engineers with better decision-making and edit/shape decisions they make.
• Collaborate directly with founders (reporting line described as to the co-founder & CEO).

What you’ll help build

Ashby builds hiring process tooling for talent teams, including features like recruiter coordination and scheduling workflows (e.g., handling interview loads, availability collection, and scheduling optimization).

Environment / culture

• Near seed-stage culture with autonomy, fuzzy lines between roles, and an emphasis on IC work.
• “Almost no meetings” culture, balancing PM/product-market-fit scale with a no-red-tape startup feel.

Requirements / qualifications

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