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Ashby is a high-growth, venture-backed HR tech platform (ATS and talent management) used by companies like Notion, Linear, OpenAI, Shopify, and Snowflake. Growing >100% YoY with best-in-class retention metrics, backed by Y Combinator and notable angels.
You will report directly to Geo, VP of Product (who joined August 2026), and own the roadmap and strategy for one of three major product areas:
1. **Outbound Sourcing**: Build a platform enabling teams to hire sourcing agents directly from Ashby. Customers write job descriptions; agents book calls with qualified candidates.
2. **Product Platform**: Establish the shared building blocks, foundational capabilities, and APIs that let product teams move quickly. Own the multi-product platform architecture.
3. **AI Platform**: Own the Ashby Assistant, Ashby MCP, and the AI platform used across product surfaces. Drive shared primitives like AI memory and context.
Your responsibilities:
- Drive impact by deeply understanding customers and shipping impactful product improvements at high velocity.
- Apply strong product taste and judgment to deliver solutions that are powerful and delightful.
- Maintain a roadmap ensuring engineering is never blocked; set compelling strategy and vision for 6–18 months.
- Conduct customer research, synthesize feedback and competitive intel to drive prioritization.
- Identify bottlenecks, scope effectively, and drive projects toward high-impact releases. Stay close to engineering to navigate tradeoffs and manage technical risks.
- Partner across go-to-market teams to bring products to market; inform pricing, marketing, and support needs.
- Follow through on commitments, manage time ruthlessly, communicate proactively.
Ashby's PM philosophy differs from typical orgs: PMs spend less time writing detailed specs and more time with customers and deep product thinking. Engineers own solutions end-to-end with deep customer understanding. You set the pace for your area, bring healthy impatience and time-paranoia, and help engineers by managing scope, identifying when to bring help, and ruthless prioritization. You'll invest in both product improvements and platform thinking.
Interview process: 30-min intro call, 45-min product experience deep dive, 1-hour product exercise, 2-hour final round with cross-functional team.
**Requirements:**
- Unnatural curiosity and excitement about end-users and their jobs.
- Engineering mindset; can think through edge cases and extend underlying platform for leverage.
- Strong product taste; care about quality of products you build and use.
- Excellent writer and synthesizer; bring product knowledge and clarity to organization; enable engineers with insights.
- Build prioritization thesis and communicate using sound strategy combining principled thinking, research, and data.
- Leverage tools and processes to build operational excellence into product process.
- Strong business sense; understand product-GTM collaboration, feature monetization, and how product priorities fit business priorities.
- Not a fit if: you prefer to specify exactly what engineering builds rather than give ownership; dislike written documentation; primarily interested in shipping features over reusable platform capabilities; prefer to outsource research; uncomfortable with urgency and reprioritization; primarily motivated by metrics over customer experience.
