Senior Product Designer

About the role

We're looking for a versatile, intrinsically motivated designer who is excited to contribute to rethinking how modern software is designed. At Ashby, you'll be part designer, part product manager, part consultant, and part design system manager (or some combination of the 4!).

Responsibilities

• Create leverage and impact far and above what you'd see in a typical EPD product team structure.
• Work on all parts of a massive product surface area - spanning many user types, JTBDs, usability challenges, etc.
• Reinvent the design model for modern enterprise software.
• Help consolidate and refine our design system to be functional, aesthetic, and best-in-class.
• Consult for engineers who need help structuring layout, typography, flows, etc.
• Dig into problems by consulting GTM, talking to customers, asking for data requests, and more in order to present confident assumptions about your proposals.
• Take ownership of larger product features and think through Jobs-To-Be-Done, navigation, information architecture, layout, interaction, etc.
• Take in customer feedback and use heuristics to build your own usability backlog and propose projects for engineers to take on.
• Write specification docs that detail your design proposals.

Requirements

• 4+ years of product design experience in desktop SaaS.
• Able to think from first principles instead of simply applying the “standard” UX processes.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Experience at an early-stage startup or spending time as a solo designer on a team.
• Excited about creating leverage and impact far and above what you'd see in a typical EPD product team structure.
• Interested in helping reinvent the design model for modern enterprise software.
• Willing to cover all parts of the design process with a focus on design craft.
• Comfortable working independently without much guidance from a PM or design management.
• Willing to work on all parts of a massive product surface area - spanning many user types, JTBDs, usability challenges, etc.
• Willing to take ownership of larger product features and think through Jobs-To-Be-Done, navigation, information architecture, layout, interaction, etc.
• Willing to take in customer feedback and use heuristics to build your own usability backlog and propose projects for engineers to take on.
• Willing to consolidate and refine our design system to be functional, aesthetic, and best-in-class.

Skills

• Ability to think from first principles.
• Break down complex user problems.
• Enough experience to solve usability problems intuitively.
• Curious and resourceful.
• Strong skills in layout, navigation, IA, UI, and interaction design.
• Strong visual design skills.

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.

Pay

Compensation Range: $150K - $210K

Schedule

Remote work