Ashby
Staff Product Designer
Remote - US · Staff+ · Full-time
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About the role
- Our growth and retention metrics are best-in-class among our peers: we have tens of millions in ARR, very low churn, and many years of runway.
- We're backed by amazing investors like Y Combinator, Elad Gil, Lachy Groom, and many more!
- HOW WE WORK In my previous roles, product teams always consisted of a product manager, a designer, and ~4-5 engineers.
Responsibilities
- Hi! 👋 I'm Chris https://www.linkedin.com/in/chkrlee/, head of Product Design at Ashby.
- At Ashby, you'll be part designer, part product manager, part consultant, and part design system manager (or some combination of the 4!).
- We do design differently here, and if that excites you, read on.
- 75m design exercise and app teardown. The exercise will be a live whiteboarding exercise where we provide a prompt and you show us how you'd break down problems and come up with solutions.
- We're being deliberate about building that environment from the ground up.
Requirements
- You have experience at an early-stage startup or have spent time as a solo designer on a team.
- 10+ years of product design experience, with the majority being in desktop SaaS
- Able to take huge, ambiguous projects and break them down into actionable parts
- Able to speak to patterns of the highest functioning design teams and how to create an environment of high performance
- Able to leverage designers' superpowers to influence engineering, product, and the rest of the company
- Able to create standards and principles that will help improve the quality of design across the product org
- Able to think from first principles instead of simply applying the "standard" UX processes.
- Enough experience that your intuition can solve most 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.
- Best-in-class skills in layout, navigation, IA, UI, and interaction design.
- Obsession with craft & details.
Skills
- Consulting for engineers who need help structuring layout, typography, flows, etc.
Compensation
- Competitive salary and equity.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity.
- 10-year exercise window for stock options.
- You shouldn't feel pressure to purchase stock options if you leave Ashby -do it when you feel financially comfortable.
- Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year.
- Expect "Vacation?" in our one-on-one agenda until you start taking it.
- Twelve weeks of fully paid family leave in the US.
- $100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval.
- If you're in the US, top-notch health insurance for you and your dependents with all premiums covered by us.
Company info
- We're looking for a versatile, intrinsically motivated designer who is excited to contribute to rethinking how modern software is designed.
- Our unique approach is working - we're growing >100% year-over-year and have notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake.
- We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.
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