Product Designer

Summary

Join Ashby, a rapidly growing software company, as a versatile Product Designer. You will play a multifaceted role, combining design, product management, consulting, and design system management. Ashby employs a unique, principled design approach, empowering the entire product team to make better design decisions. You will work on all parts of a massive product surface area, tackling significant design challenges and building the design system from the ground up. The company offers a near seed-stage-like culture with significant autonomy and a focus on individual contributor work. Ashby is backed by notable investors and serves customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake.

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

Responsibilities

• Contribute to rethinking how modern software is designed
• Be part designer, part product manager, part consultant, and part design system manager
• Equip our entire product team to make better decisions themselves, as well as edit decisions that PMs/Engineers choose to make
• Tackle 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

Preferred Qualifications

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