Demo Engineer

Ashby • ,

2d • $130,000 - $184,000

About The Position

Ashby is hiring its first Demo Engineer, a net-new role within Solutions Engineering responsible for making demo environments reliable, current, and tailored for the go-to-market team. The role builds on disposable demo templates being developed by the Internal Platform team, customizing and extending them, generating realistic demo data, adapting environments for specific verticals and markets, and ensuring features are demoable before release.

The work is split approximately 70% across owning, customizing, and extending the demo template system and its data and content, and 30% across demo-readiness programming, including release readiness, documentation, and enablement. The role is hands-on and behind the scenes, using internal tools, configuration files, APIs, and data preparation to build systems that help the broader team work effectively. It reports to the Global Head of Solutions Engineering and partners closely with Internal Platform, Product, Engineering, and go-to-market teams.

Ashby builds recruiting software for talent leaders, recruiters, and hiring managers. The company describes itself as well funded and backed by investors including Y Combinator, Elad Gil, and Lachy Groom, with thousands of customers. Ashby is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and a fair, transparent hiring process. The company may use AI-driven tools to assist with screening, assessment, and candidate selection.

Requirements

• Comfort working with JSON, REST and developer APIs, AI tools, and scripting to configure and customize environments.
• A builder mindset and interest in creating systems and tooling that improve team effectiveness over time.
• Care for demo quality, including understanding effective product demonstrations, realistic data, and supporting narratives.
• Strong product intuition and ability to quickly learn a deeply configurable product and understand how its components connect.
• An iterative approach to testing, refining, and improving based on field feedback.
• Systems-thinking orientation, with a preference for standardization and automation over repetitive manual setup.
• Comfort with ambiguity and with a 0-to-1 role where infrastructure is still being built.
• Ability to partner cross-functionally with Engineering and go-to-market teams and translate their needs into reliable systems.
• Empathy for the go-to-market teams being supported and for the Talent Acquisition space they serve.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building demo environments, demo data, or sandbox/trial environments at a SaaS company.
• Experience writing automation scripts or tooling to generate data or configure environments at scale.
• Experience building and maintaining reusable, templated environments or assets used by others.
• Experience with HR technology, applicant tracking system workflows, or recruiting operations.

Responsibilities

• Own, customize, and extend the scaled demo environment infrastructure for the go-to-market team.
• Standardize and automate the generation of realistic demo data and the population of demo environments.
• Build vertical- and market-specific demos, including tailored content and additional languages as the company expands.
• Own demo readiness for new releases, ensuring features are correctly configured and demoable before general availability.
• Create templated trial and sandbox environments for prospects to use during the sales cycle.
• Maintain clear documentation explaining how and when the go-to-market team should use each demo environment.
• Run demo-readiness programming, including release readiness, documentation, and team enablement.
• Partner with Internal Platform, Product, Engineering, and go-to-market teams to translate their needs into reliable demo systems.

Benefits

• Time to do work the right way, with emphasis on high-quality work and avoiding quick hacks.
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
• 10-year exercise window for stock options.
• $100 per month education budget; more expensive items such as conferences may be covered with manager approval.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed