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
Consulting for engineers who need help structuring layout, typography, flows, etc
Digging into problems by consulting GTM, talking to customers, asking for data requests, and more in order to present confident assumptions about your proposals
Using Figma to draw out your ideas and create visual artifacts for stakeholder alignment
Writing specification docs (we call them specs!) that detail your design proposals. These documents are meant to get stakeholder alignment on the biggest decisions you want to make and are a core part of how we work at Ashby
Taking ownership of larger product features and thinking through Jobs-To-Be-Done, navigation, information architecture, layout, interaction, etc
Taking in customer feedback and using heuristics to build your own usability backlog and propose projects for engineers to take on
Consolidating and refining our design system to be functional, aesthetic, and best-in-class
INTERVIEW PROCESS
At Ashby, our team and interview process want to help you show your best self. We’ll dive into past projects and simulate working together and talking through decisions. Our interview process is four rounds with some casual Zoom coffee in between to get to know each other
1. 30m introduction call to discuss Ashby and your experience
2. 45m portfolio review
3. 75m design exercise and app teardown. The exercise will be a live whiteboarding exercise where we provide a prompt and you show us how you'd break down problems and come up with solutions
4. 2.5hr final round - meet the team + portfolio repeat with a founder
I'll be your main point of contact and prepare you for interviews. You’ll meet other engineers and product managers as well (with lots of time to ask them questions). If we don’t give an offer by the last round, I'll provide feedback as to why if you'd like it (I'm serious!)