Senior Product Designer

Role overview

Ashby is hiring a Senior Product Designer to rethink how modern software is designed. The role blends design with product ownership, consulting, and design systems—working closely with product managers and engineers in a principled, team-owned way.

How the team works

• Product teams typically include a product manager, designer, and ~4–5 engineers.
• PMs usually brief designers, who then design; deliverables are handed to engineers.
• Ashby emphasizes designing only where needed and enabling better product-team decisions (including editing decisions PMs/engineers make).

What you’ll do

• Tackle major product design challenges end-to-end when appropriate (effectively owning projects from start to finish).
• Provide product updates and help manage resources for the work you own.
• Equip the broader product team to make better design decisions through guidance and design systems thinking.
• Apply a “no status quo / resist reversion” mindset to improve and iterate on the product.

Requirements

• Strong product design experience with the ability to determine when design depth is truly needed.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with PMs and engineers, partnering on decisions across the product lifecycle.
• Self-directed, intrinsically motivated approach in a culture with fuzzy role boundaries and minimal meetings.

Nice-to-haves (implied)

• Experience influencing product direction, not just producing UI.
• Comfort working in an IC-heavy environment with autonomy.
• Experience with recruiting/talent workflows or complex scheduling-like problems (context from what Ashby builds).