Hi 👋 I'm Benji, Co-Founder and CEO of Ashby. I'm looking to hire a Senior Product Manager who will be reporting directly to me.

At Ashby, we believe that great product work is more art than science. We also strongly believe that Engineers should own a lot of work typically done by PMs. Instead of writing detailed PRDs, PMs can focus on product prioritization, product strategy, and ensuring excellent execution. Because of this, product taste and user empathy are among the most important skills we look for in new PMs.

We’ve built a Product & Engineering team that ships high-quality product at a very high velocity. I want this hire to help us scale our approach as we significantly expand our product footprint (we're happy to share more about new products throughout the interview process).

We’ve been growing very fast, in large part due to customer love, and are now serving 1,800+ customers. Our customers range from earlier-stage startups to growth-stage and Enterprise companies like OpenAI, Snowflake, and Deel.

The Problem

Our current product offering consists of four major modules, ATS, CRM, Scheduling Automation and Analytics. From day one we have aimed to build "all-in-one and best-in class". Doing that with a relatively small team has required us to be smart about creating leverage within our product (via reusable modules), optimizing how our team spends time and maximizing ownership Engineers can take to own projects without many additional stakeholders.

In addition to building a multi-product foundation from day one, we have also put a lot of focus on allowing for customizability and power user features, while keeping Ashby easy to get started with.

We want to continue down this ambitious path in future and add multiple new products, which means we:

• Are not just building a product, but building a platform

• Need to find a balance between re-usable building blocks and feature-specific behavior

• Blend enterprise customizability and ease of use

We also want to continuously delight users. We hear "I never thought one could fall in love with an ATS" quite often, and we want to keep that true for all future products we build.

Your Role

In the long term, you will own the entire roadmap for a large portion of Ashby's existing modules. You will be a significant contributor to our overall product strategy and hugely impact our product velocity and quality.

In the short term, you will collaborate closely with me and focus more on execution of individual projects as you familiarize yourself with our space, customers, and how we do product at Ashby.

Because we give Engineers a lot of product ownership and autonomy, you can focus on high leverage activities instead of spelling out user stories and managing sprints (we are decidedly low process on Product/Engineering).

Ultimately, you are responsible for picking the right priorities and ensuring excellent execution across both product quality and velocity.

For this role, past or aspiring Founders are likely ideal - but we're excited to evaluate candidates from other backgrounds (Our current PM team consists of a former Engineer, a former Designer, a former Data leader, a former Head of Support and a former Founder; each have unique strengths that we can map against product areas that are the strongest fit).

You could be a great fit if

• 👀 You have an unnatural curiosity and excitement about the end-user and the jobs they do

• 💻 You bring an Engineering mindset to product problems and can think through edge cases and understand how to extend our underlying platform to create leverage

• 🖼 You can demonstrate taste - you care about the quality of the products you build and use

• ✍️ You're an excellent writer and synthesizer; you bring product knowledge and clarity to the entire organization and enable Engineers with product insights

• 🧩 You can build a thesis for prioritization and communicate priorities using a sound strategy that combines principled thinking, research, and data

• ⚙️ You leverage tools and processes to build operational excellence into your product process

• 💼 You have a strong business sense and understand how product and GTM should collaborate, how your features may be monetized, and how product priorities fit into larger business priorities

Our Culture

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