Design Engineer, Americas

About the role

This role combines excellence in both design and technical implementation, fostering a nimbleness and creativity that is hard to achieve when doing only one or the other. Design Engineers at Ashby work on challenging design problems, help others improve their designs by expanding and enhancing our in-house design system, and consult on bespoke design work needed by product engineers.

Responsibilities

• Redesign our mobile web app by talking with customers who use it often, wireframing new flows, implementing its design system, and making the wireframes a reality.
• Built a set of flexible, composable components in our design system that allow other engineers to easily build beautiful, consistent setup wizards across our product.
• Helped a Product Engineer improve the information hierarchy and scannability of their design for viewing a candidate’s assessments.

Requirements

• 2+ years of continuous experience (e.g., internships don’t count) as an Engineer or a Designer.
• Good proficiency in both Design and Engineering, with exceptional proficiency in the discipline you practice full-time.
• Experience designing products and shipping code to hundreds of users (even if through side projects).

Qualifications

• Excellent taste and execution in visual design.
• Ability to ship to a subset of users (including our own team) and gather feedback.
• Comfort with iterative design and development.
• Experience working on a product at scale, not at an early-stage startup.

Skills

• Strong proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, etc.
• Proficiency in programming languages relevant to the product (e.g., JavaScript, Python, etc.).
• Understanding of data models and their impact on design.
• Experience with agile methodologies and iterative development cycles.

Benefits

• Work on a product that touches over 100,000 weekly active users and millions of candidates per week.
• Collaborate with recruiters and hiring managers who use Ashby every day.
• Receive customer feedback as early as the day you release.

Pay

Competitive salary commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Full-time, 40 hours per week.