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.
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:
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.
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).
Our culture is motivated by Abhik’s (my co-founder and VP Engineering) and my belief that a small, talented team, given the right environment, can build high-quality software fast.
Our team consists of lifelong learners who are humble and kind (meet them here!). These attributes create an environment where collaboration happens naturally (we filter for it in interviews). We combine this with research, prototyping, and written proposals to see around corners and get feedback from the team across time zones. Focus time is sacred, and individual contributors in Engineering have less than 2 hours of meetings per week (Abhik wrote about it here).
We built Ashby with the quality, breadth, and depth that many customers would expect from much larger teams over larger time scales. We’ve done this through investment in:
Abhik and I did our best work as individual contributors when we had a deep understanding of the end-user and the business and ownership over the solution. Our culture reflects this experience: individual contributors, including engineers, own projects end-to-end, from speaking with users to writing product specs to UX design. These are skills that we often don’t get to practice, and at Ashby, we provide mentorship to grow them and help from the team where you want it.
Ashby’s success hinges on hiring great people and creating an environment where we can be happy, feel challenged, and do our best work. We’re being deliberate about building that environment from the ground up. I hope that excites you enough to apply.
Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.
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