Staff Product Designer
Ashby, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Overview
Hi, I'm Chris, head of Product Design at Ashby. We’re looking for a versatile, intrinsically motivated designer eager to contribute to rethinking how modern software is designed. At Ashby, you'll wear multiple hats—designer, product manager, consultant, and design system manager—helping shape our products from end to end.
Responsibilities
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 that detail your design proposals. These documents are meant to get stakeholder alignment on the biggest decisions you want to make and are a core part of how we work at Ashby.
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.
Qualifications
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.
You have 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. You shouldn’t feel pressure to purchase stock options if you leave Ashby —do it when you feel financially comfortable. This is one of the reasons I joined personally - not a lot of startups do this.
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 U.S. We plan to expand this to employees in other countries as situations arise.
Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget. Get what you need to be happy and productive!
$100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval.
If you’re in the U.S., top‑notch health insurance for you and your dependents with all premiums covered by us.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.
Compensation Compensation Range: $180K - $240K
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Responsibilities
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 that detail your design proposals. These documents are meant to get stakeholder alignment on the biggest decisions you want to make and are a core part of how we work at Ashby.
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.
Qualifications
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.
You have 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. You shouldn’t feel pressure to purchase stock options if you leave Ashby —do it when you feel financially comfortable. This is one of the reasons I joined personally - not a lot of startups do this.
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 U.S. We plan to expand this to employees in other countries as situations arise.
Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget. Get what you need to be happy and productive!
$100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval.
If you’re in the U.S., top‑notch health insurance for you and your dependents with all premiums covered by us.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.
Compensation Compensation Range: $180K - $240K
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