Staff Product Manager

Ashby is hiring Product Managers who will report directly to the VP of Product. PMs are responsible for shipping impactful product changes at high velocity, with a primary goal of removing frustration and adding delight for customers. Ashby builds all-in-one, best-in-class software for Talent teams and is designed as a multi-product platform. The role involves working with engineers who own solutions end-to-end, spending less time on detailed specs and more time with customers and product strategy. The interview process includes an Intro Call (30 mins), Product Experience Deep Dive (1 hour), Product Exercise (1 hour), and Final Round Interview (2 hours). The advertisement also lists the opening as Senior Product Manager; both titles describe the same position.

Responsibilities

Drive impact by deeply understanding customers and shipping impactful product improvements and investments; apply product taste and sound judgment to deliver powerful, joyful solutions and identify quality improvements before shipping; maintain a roadmap so engineering is never blocked and set a strategy and vision for the next 6-18 months; spend time with customers and customer-facing teams, synthesizing feedback, research, and competitive intel to drive prioritization; set the pace for the product area by identifying bottlenecks, scoping effectively, and driving projects toward high-impact releases; stay close to engineering work to navigate tradeoffs, manage technical risks, and resolve execution challenges; partner across go-to-market teams to bring features to market and anticipate needs for pricing, marketing, and customer support; follow through on commitments, manage time, respond promptly to stakeholders, and communicate proactively; own the roadmap and strategy for Product Platform (shared building blocks, foundational capabilities, and APIs) or AI Platform (Ashby Assistant, Ashby MCP, and shared AI primitives such as memory and context)

Requirements

Strong technical product judgment; enjoys working on APIs, shared systems, and foundational capabilities; can balance reusable building blocks with polished, customer-facing product experiences; likes creating leverage by helping teams ship quickly and consistently; experience building AI-powered products, especially agents, copilots, or workflow automation; enjoys shaping shared AI primitives like memory, context, orchestration, and evaluation; can translate fast-moving AI capabilities into useful, reliable, and delightful products; unnatural curiosity and excitement about the end-user and the jobs they do; engineering mindset applied to product problems, including thinking through edge cases and extending the underlying platform; demonstrates taste and cares about the quality of the products they build and use; excellent writer and synthesizer who provides product knowledge and clarity to the organization and gives engineers product insights; can build a thesis for prioritization and communicate priorities using principled thinking, research, and data; leverages tools and processes to build operational excellence into the product process; strong business sense and understanding of how product and go-to-market should collaborate, how features may be monetized, and how product priorities fit business priorities

Benefits

10-year exercise window for stock options; unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year; twelve weeks of fully paid family leave in the US; generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget; $100/month education budget with more expensive items covered with manager approval; $250/month tool budget plus access to Claude, Cursor, and Codex with generous token budgets; top-tier health insurance in the US with 100% of premiums covered for employee and dependents; high-quality supplemental health insurance fully covered outside the US