Senior Product Designer
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About the Role
Ashby seeks a Senior Product Designer to rethink modern software design for their talent platform. You will work across the full product surface area, from UX to design system, with autonomy and minimal process.
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Responsibilities
- Consult for engineers who need help structuring layout, typography, flows, etc.
- Dig into problems by consulting GTM, talking to customers, asking for data requests, etc.
- Use Figma to draw out ideas and create visual artifacts for stakeholder alignment
- Write specification docs (specs) that detail design 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 usability backlog and propose projects
- Consolidate and refine the design system to be functional, aesthetic, and best in class
Requirements
- 4+ years of product design experience in desktop SaaS
- Able to think from first principles instead of simply applying standard UX processes
- Can break down complex user problems by asking questions that narrow down the solution space
- Enough experience that intuition can solve many usability problems without relying solely on data & metrics or 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
- Bonus: experience at an early stage startup or as a solo designer on a team
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Position Overview
- Ashby is looking for a versatile, intrinsically motivated designer 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.
- Ashby is growing >100% year over year with notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake.
How We Work
- Ashby takes a principled approach: design is required in varying degrees on each project.
- Designers may own projects from beginning to end, including providing project updates and managing resources.
- The design department's job is to equip the entire product team to make better design decisions and tackle the biggest challenges.
What We're Building
- Ashby provides talent teams with intelligent software that automates and simplifies hiring tasks.
- Focus on designing products that are approachable to beginners but mastered by power users.
Your Qualifications
- 4+ years of product design experience in desktop SaaS.
- Able to think from first principles.
- Can break down complex user problems.
- Enough experience that intuition can solve many usability problems.
- Curious & resourceful.
- Strong skills in layout, navigation, IA, UI, and interaction design.
- Strong visual design skills and obsession with craft & details.
- Bonus: experience at an early stage startup or as a solo designer.
On a Weekly Basis You Will Find Yourself
- Consulting for engineers on layout, typography, flows.
- Digging into problems by consulting GTM, talking to customers, data requests.
- Using Figma to draw out ideas and create visual artifacts.
- Writing specification docs.
- Taking ownership of larger product features.
- Taking in customer feedback and building usability backlog.
- Consolidating and refining the design system.
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.
- CAD 100/month education budget.
- Top notch health insurance for US employees.
Compensation Range
- CAD 150K CAD 210K
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