Staff Product Manager

About this role

Hi, I’m Geo, Ashby’s VP of Product. I joined Ashby August ‘26; read more about why I joined here. https://www.ashbyhq.com/blog/all/a-letter-from-chris-geoghegan-on-joining-ashby I’m hiring for multiple Product Managers who will report directly to me. More on the specific product areas below.

At Ashby, we have a unique approach to building products https://www.ashbyhq.com/blog/culture/ashbys-operating-principles. As a PM, your primary goal is to eliminate frustration and bring delight to our customers. You’ll work with engineers who deeply understand the customer and business problem and own the solution end-to-end. This means that you spend less time writing detailed specs and more time with customers and doing deep product thinking.

Our unique approach is working. We’re growing >100% year over year and have notable customers such as Notion, Linear, OpenAI, Shopify, and Snowflake. Our growth and retention metrics are best in class among our peers. We’re backed by amazing investors like Y Combinator, Elad Gil, Lachy Groom, and many more!

PRODUCT AREAS

From day one, we have aimed to build "all-in-one and best-in-class" software for Talent teams. In addition to building a multi-product foundation from day one, we have also focused on enabling customizability and power-user features while keeping Ashby easy to get started with. Doing both is an ambitious undertaking!

We want to continue down this ambitious path in future and add multiple new products, which means we:

- Are not just building a product, we’re building a platform

- Need to find a balance between re-usable building blocks and feature-specific behaviour

- Blend enterprise customizability and ease of use

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.

We are looking for Product Managers who can own the roadmap and strategy for the following areas:

1. Outbound Sourcing: You’ll build a platform that enables teams to hire sourcing agents directly from Ashby. Customers simply write the job description, and agents start booking calls with highly qualified candidates.

2. Product Platform: Ashby was designed from the beginning as a multi-product platform. We’re looking for a PM to establish this team and own the shared building blocks, foundational capabilities, and APIs that let product teams move quickly.

3. AI Platform: You’ll own the Ashby Assistant, Ashby MCP, and the AI platform used across many product surfaces. You’ll help drive shared primitives, such as AI memory and context.

During the interview process, we’ll determine which role you're best suited for. We’re also advertising this opening as Senior Product Manager. Both titles describe the same position; please apply once using the title that best reflects your experience.

YOUR ROLE

- Drive Impact: Deeply understand our customers and ship impactful product improvements and investments to maintain our strong velocity.

- Quality: Apply your strong product taste and sound judgement to deliver solutions that are both powerful and a joy to use. Use your judgment to identify areas where we need to improve quality before shipping.

- Prioritization and Strategy: Maintain a roadmap to ensure engineering is never blocked, and set a compelling strategy and vision for the next 6-18 months.

- Customer Research: Spend time with customers and customer-facing teams. Synthesize customer feedback, research, and competitive intel to drive smart prioritization choices.

- Execution Excellence: Set the pace for your 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.

- Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner across go-to-market teams to bring the features and products your team builds to the market. Anticipate and plan for the needs to help inform pricing, marketing, and customer support.

- Ownership and reliability: follow through on commitments, manage time ruthlessly, respond promptly to stakeholders, and communicate proactively when priorities or timelines change.

YOU COULD BE A GREAT FIT IF

- You have an unnatural curiosity and excitement about the end-user and the jobs they do

- You bring an Engineering mindset to product problems and can think through edge cases and understand how to extend our underlying platform to create leverage

- You can demonstrate taste - you care about the quality of the products you build and use

- You're an excellent writer and synthesizer; you bring product knowledge and clarity to the entire organization and enable Engineers with product insights

- You can build a thesis for prioritization and communicate priorities using a sound strategy that combines principled thinking, research, and data

- You leverage tools and processes to build operational excellence into your product process

- You have a strong business sense and understand how product and GTM should collaborate, how your features may be monetized, and how product priorities fit into larger business priorities

YOU MAY NOT BE A GREAT FIT IF

- You prefer to specify exactly what Engineering should build rather than give engineers room to own the solution.

- You dislike written documentation and prefer to manage the team via meetings and quick Slack messages.

- You’re primarily interested in shipping features and not thinking through how to make them reusable platform capabilities.

- You don’t enjoy doing deep research yourself and prefer to outsource that UX research, market research, and data teams.

- You’re uncomfortable moving with urgency, making tradeoffs, and reprioritizing when new information emerges.

- You’re primarily motivated by achieving a metric more than delivering a great product experience for customers.

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