Staff Product Designer
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COMPENSATION
$210k – $250k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Staff level role
- Fully remote
- 10+ years experience
- Desktop SaaS focus
- High autonomy
Join Ashby as a versatile designer who acts as part product manager and consultant. You will help rethink modern software design by equipping the entire product team to make better decisions, rather than just handing off mocks. This role offers the scale of a growth-stage startup with the agency of an early-stage team.
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 execution
- Build and refine the company design system
- Analyze customer feedback to create usability backlogs
- Break down ambiguous projects into actionable parts
What you'll need
- Over ten years of product design experience
- Strong background in desktop SaaS products
- Ability to solve usability problems via intuition and heuristics
- Expertise in layout, navigation, IA, UI, and interaction
- Experience working in early-stage startups or as a solo designer
- Comfortable designing independently with minimal guidance
- Skilled at influencing engineering and product teams
Nice to have
- Experience building design systems from the ground up
- Ability to work across many user types and job-to-be-done scenarios
- Resourceful approach to de-risking creative solutions
Stack
- Figma
How you'll work
- Fully remote position
- Almost-no-meeting culture
- High autonomy with fuzzy role boundaries
- Focus on individual contributor work
What you get
- Competitive salary and equity package
- Ten-year exercise window for stock options
- Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended
- Twelve weeks paid family leave in the US
- Generous equipment and home office budget
- Monthly education budget for learning and conferences
- Full health insurance premiums covered in the 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