Product Designer

What We’re Building

Talent teams aspire to build a hiring process that identifies great candidates, moves them quickly through the interview process, and provides an excellent experience for the candidate. To accomplish this, recruiters perform thousands of daily tasks to coordinate and relay information between candidates, interviewers, and hiring managers. Teams struggle to keep up!

Ashby provides talent teams with intelligent and powerful software that offers insights into where they’re failing and automates or simplifies many of the tasks they’re underwater with. We put a lot of effort into designing products that are approachable to beginners but mastered and extended by power users. In many ways, spreadsheets set the bar here (and are what we often replace!).

Why You Should or Shouldn’t Apply

Your Qualifications

4+ years of product design experience in desktop SaaS.
Able to think from first principles instead of applying “standard” UX processes.
Can break down complex user problems by asking questions that narrow down the solution space.
Strong intuition to solve usability problems without heavy reliance on data or research.
Curious and resourceful, with a knack for creative problem-solving.
Skilled in layout, navigation, IA, UI, and interaction design.
Excellent visual design craft with attention to detail.
Bonus: Experience in early-stage startups or working as a solo designer.

You May Want to Apply If You’re Excited About:

Creating major leverage and impact beyond a typical product design role.
Working across a wide product surface area with varied user needs.
Redefining the design process for enterprise software.
Covering all parts of the design process with an emphasis on craft.
Occasionally conducting user research but primarily focusing on heuristics and usability.
Helping build a near-ground-up design system.

You May Not Want to Apply If:

You need constant PM/design direction and support.
You’re uncomfortable with your design process being challenged by others.
You prefer in-person roles (Ashby is fully remote).
You dislike written documentation.
You want rigid structure/rhythm in your project cycle.
You prefer to work only on interaction or design systems in isolation.

Weekly Responsibilities

Consulting with engineers on layout, flows, and design decisions.
Investigating problems through GTM collaboration, customer interviews, and data.
Using Figma to sketch ideas and align stakeholders.
Writing “specs” (design specification docs) for stakeholder approval.
Owning large product features end-to-end across Jobs-To-Be-Done and UI.
Gathering and acting on customer feedback.
Maintaining and evolving the design system.

Interview Process

Our four-stage process is designed to help you show your best self:

Intro Call (30 min) – Learn more about Ashby and share your experience.
Portfolio Review (45 min)
Design Exercise + 2nd Portfolio Review (90 min total) – Exercise can be take-home or live whiteboarding.
Virtual Onsite (~2 hrs) – Meet the team and do a product teardown.

You’ll meet engineers and product managers, and we’ll leave time for you to ask questions. We’re committed to transparency and feedback throughout.

Benefits

💵 Competitive salary and equity
🪙 10-year stock option exercise window
🏖️ Unlimited PTO (4 weeks/year recommended)
👶 12 weeks fully paid family leave (U.S., expanding internationally)
💺 Generous equipment and home office budget
📚 $100/month learning budget + conferences with manager approval
🏥 100% covered top-tier health insurance (U.S.) for you and your dependents

Ashby is a remote-first company building the next generation of recruiting software. We believe in high-trust teams, strong individual ownership, and thoughtful product design.