Senior Product Designer
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COMPENSATION
$170k – $225k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Senior Product Designer
- Fully remote role
- SaaS for talent teams
- Low-meeting culture
- 10-year option window
Join Ashby as a versatile designer who acts as part product manager and consultant. You will equip the entire product team to make better decisions while tackling major design challenges yourself. The culture emphasizes autonomy, written documentation, and solving customer problems over following standard UX rituals.
What you'll do
- Consult with engineers on layout, typography, and flow structure
- Write specification docs to align stakeholders on key decisions
- Own large product features from concept to implementation
- Build usability backlogs using heuristics and customer feedback
- Refine and expand the company design system
- Break down complex user problems through targeted questioning
What you'll need
- 4+ years of product design experience in desktop SaaS
- Strong skills in layout, navigation, IA, and interaction design
- Ability to think from first principles rather than standard processes
- Experience solving usability issues via intuition and craft
- Comfort working independently with minimal managerial guidance
- Proficiency in creating visual artifacts using Figma
Nice to have
- Experience at an early-stage startup
- Background as a solo designer on a team
Stack
- Figma
How you'll work
- Fully remote position
- Almost-no-meeting culture
- High autonomy with fuzzy role boundaries
- Focus on written documentation and specs
What you get
- Competitive salary and equity package
- 10-year exercise window for stock options
- Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended annually
- 12 weeks fully paid family leave in the US
- Generous budget for equipment and home office furniture
- $100 monthly education budget plus conference coverage
- Top-notch health insurance with premiums covered (US)
Hiring process
- 30-minute introduction call
- 45-minute portfolio review
- 75-minute live whiteboarding design exercise
- 2.5-hour final round with team and founder