Staff Product Designer

Position Overview

Ashby is seeking a versatile, intrinsically motivated Product Designer to rethink how modern software is designed. In this role you’ll operate as part designer, product manager, consultant, and design system manager – directly influencing design decisions across the entire product. You will work within a fast‐growing organization with notable customers such as Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake, and collaborate closely with a dynamic product team.

Key Responsibilities

• Consult with engineers to structure layout, typography, and user flows.
• Dig into problems by collaborating with GTM teams, customers, and data to form confident design assumptions.
• Utilize Figma to create visual artifacts and secure stakeholder alignment.
• Write detailed specification docs (specs) that drive core design decisions.
• Take ownership of large product features including defining jobs-to-be-done, navigation, IA, layout, and interactions.
• Consolidate and refine our design system to ensure functionality, aesthetics, and best-in-class quality.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of product design experience, primarily in desktop SaaS.
• Ability to break down huge, ambiguous projects into actionable parts.
• Experience building high-performance design teams and setting standards for quality across product organizations.
• Proven ability to leverage design expertise to influence engineering, product, and the broader company.
• A first-principles mindset to address usability challenges without over-reliance on rigid UX processes.
• Strong intuition to solve usability problems even without extensive data or user research.
• Exceptional skills in layout, navigation, information architecture, UI, and interaction design.
• Proven obsession with craft and attention to detail.
• Experience working at an early-stage startup or serving as a solo designer on a team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excitement about creating leverage and making a meaningful impact beyond a typical role.
• Desire to work on a vast product surface area spanning multiple user types and challenges.
• Enthusiasm for reinventing design models for modern enterprise software without being confined to traditional methods.
• Interest in covering all parts of the design process with a strong focus on design craft and user experience improvement.
• Commitment to helping build and evolve a robust design system from the ground up.

Benefits & Perks

• Compensation: Competitive salary and equity.
• 10-year exercise window for stock options – no pressure to purchase until you’re financially comfortable.
• Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year and genuine encouragement to take time off.
• Twelve weeks of fully paid family leave in the US, with plans to expand globally.
• Generous budget for equipment, software, and office furniture to keep you happy and productive.
• $100/month education budget; additional support for conferences with manager approval.
• If in the US, top-notch health insurance for you and your dependents with all premiums covered.