Staff Product Manager

Ashby • ,

2d • $220,000 - $280,000

About The Position

Ashby is hiring multiple Product Managers who will report directly to the VP of Product. Depending on the candidate’s fit, the role will focus on Outbound Sourcing, Product Platform, or AI Platform. Product Managers own the roadmap and strategy for their area and aim to remove customer frustration and create delightful product experiences. They work closely with engineers who understand customer and business problems and own solutions end to end, giving PMs room to focus on customer research, product thinking, and strategy rather than detailed specifications.

The Outbound Sourcing area will build a platform through which teams can hire sourcing agents from Ashby. The Product Platform area will establish a team responsible for shared building blocks, foundational capabilities, and APIs that help product teams move quickly. The AI Platform area includes the Ashby Assistant, Ashby MCP, and shared AI capabilities such as memory and context.

Product Managers are expected to understand customers deeply, deliver impactful improvements, maintain product quality, set a strategy and roadmap for the next 6–18 months, and keep engineering unblocked. They conduct research, synthesize customer feedback and competitive information, scope and drive projects, navigate technical tradeoffs and risks, and collaborate with go-to-market teams on launch needs such as pricing, marketing, and customer support. The role emphasizes ownership, reliable follow-through, clear written communication, urgency, and platform thinking.

Ashby describes its product as an all-in-one, best-in-class talent platform designed for organizations ranging from startups to large enterprises. Its product approach balances reusable platform capabilities, enterprise customization, and ease of use. The company reports year-over-year growth above 100% and names Notion, Linear, OpenAI, Shopify, and Snowflake among its customers.

The interview process consists of a 30-minute introductory call, a 45-minute product experience deep dive, a one-hour product exercise, and a two-hour final round focused mostly on cross-functional interviews. Ashby aims to respond to applicants within 2–3 days.

Requirements

• Show strong curiosity about end users and the work they do.
• Bring an engineering mindset to product problems, think through edge cases, and understand how to extend an underlying platform to create leverage.
• Demonstrate product taste and care about the quality of products built and used.
• Be an excellent writer and synthesizer who communicates product knowledge clearly and enables engineers with product insights.
• Build a well-reasoned prioritization thesis and communicate priorities using strategy, research, and data.
• Use tools and processes to build operational excellence into product work.
• Have strong business sense and understand collaboration between product and go-to-market, potential monetization, and how product priorities relate to business priorities.
• Be comfortable conducting deep customer research and translating customer problems into product strategies.
• Be comfortable working urgently, making tradeoffs, and reprioritizing as new information emerges.
• Give engineers meaningful ownership of solutions rather than prescribing every implementation detail.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap and strategy for an assigned product area.
• Understand customers deeply and ship impactful product improvements and investments.
• Maintain product quality and use sound judgment to deliver powerful, enjoyable solutions.
• Set a compelling product strategy and vision for the next 6–18 months, and maintain a roadmap that keeps engineering unblocked.
• Conduct customer research and synthesize feedback, research, and competitive intelligence to guide 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 with go-to-market teams and anticipate needs related to pricing, marketing, and customer support.
• Follow through on commitments, manage time, respond promptly to stakeholders, and communicate proactively about changes to priorities or timelines.
• Invest in reusable platform capabilities and shared building blocks as well as product improvements.

Benefits

• 10-year exercise window for stock options.
• Unlimited paid time off, with four weeks recommended per year.
• Twelve weeks of fully paid family leave in the US; the company plans to expand this to employees in other countries as situations arise.
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
• $100 per month education budget; more expensive items such as conferences may be covered with manager approval.
• $250 per month tool budget and access to Claude, Cursor, and Codex with generous token budgets.
• For US employees, health insurance for employees and dependents with 100% of premiums covered by Ashby.
• For employees in other countries, supplemental health insurance for employees and dependents, fully covered by Ashby.

What This Job Offers

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