O stanowisku
Hi! 👋 I'm Chris https://www.linkedin.com/in/chkrlee/, head of Product Design at Ashby.
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!). We do design differently here, and if that excites you, read on.
Our unique approach is working - we're growing >100% year-over-year and have notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake. Our growth and retention metrics are best-in-class among our peers: we have tens of millions in ARR, very low churn, and many years of runway. We're backed by amazing investors like Y Combinator, Elad Gil, Lachy Groom, and many more! We’ll share more details once we meet.
HOW WE WORK
In my previous roles, product teams always consisted of a product manager, a designer, and ~4-5 engineers. This may sound familiar to you! The product manager briefs the designer who then designs. After designing, mocks are handed to the engineers.
We take a more principled approach here at Ashby. If you've been designing software enough, you'll realize in actuality, design is required in varying degrees on each project. Sometimes in the past, I'd be asked to design yet another settings page, when really all that was needed was an engineer to reuse existing components and just follow some documentation I had written. Other times, I…
Czy do nas pasujesz?
4+ years of product design experience in desktop SaaS.
Able to think from first principles instead of simply applying the “standard” UX processes.
Can 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.
As a bonus, you have experience at an early-stage startup or have spent time as a solo designer on a team.
Creating leverage and impact far and above what you'd see in a typical EPD product team structure. You won’t be a cog in the wheel, the wheel is not very big!
Getting to work on all parts of a massive product surface area - spanning many user types, JTBDs, usability challenges, etc. Unlike in other organizations, you won’t be stuck working on one problem for many years.
Helping reinvent the design model for modern enterprise software—you don’t have to build wireframes, user journeys, personas, etc. What matters is solving a customer’s problem; what tools you use are up to you.
Covering all parts of the design process with a focus on design craft. You'll still be doing the occasional user research interview but will be focused on using heuristics & experience to improve our IA, navigation, interactions, UI patterns, and more.
Helping build our design system from (almost) the ground up.
You feel uncomfortable designing independently without much guidance from a PM or design management.
You’re uncomfortable having your decisions and process being challenged constantly by engineering & product.
You prefer an in-person role over remote (Ashby operates remotely).
You dislike written documentation.
You want a set structure and rhythm to your projects.
PM gives you a brief, you do wireframes, then mocks, then pass off work to engineers. Rinse and repeat.
You prefer a narrow job scope - interaction design only, design system only, etc.
Benefity i zalety
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