Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ashby is hiring a Staff Product Manager to own product strategy and roadmaps across areas including outbound sourcing, product platform, and AI platform. The role involves researching customer needs, prioritizing and delivering product improvements, and partnering with engineering and go-to-market teams to build useful, high-quality products and platform capabilities.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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
Benefits
- 10-year exercise window for stock options. You shouldn’t feel pressure to purchase stock options if you leave Ashby — do it when you feel financially comfortable.
- Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year.
- Twelve weeks of fully paid family leave in the US. We plan to expand this to employees in other countries as situations arise.
- Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget. Get what you need to be happy and productive!
- $100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval.
- $250/month tool budget plus access to Claude, Cursor, and Codex with generous token budgets.
- If you’re in the US, top-tier health insurance for you and your dependents, with 100% of premiums covered by Ashby. In other countries, high-quality supplemental health insurance for you and your dependents, also fully covered by Ashby.
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