Junior Design Engineer, Americas

Summary

Ashby is a company focused on improving Talent Acquisition software, and they are seeking a Junior Design Engineer to join their growing team. This role involves both designing and coding, where the candidate will work on challenging design problems, enhance the design system, and collaborate with product engineers to improve user experiences.

Responsibilities

• You’ll Work On Our Most Challenging Design Problems, Help Others Improve Their Designs By Expanding And Enhancing Our In-house Design System, And Consult On Bespoke Design Work Needed By Product Engineers
• Redesigned our mobile web app by talking with customers who use it often, wireframing new flows, implementing its design system, and using that system to turn the wireframes into a polished UI
• Built a set of flexible, composable components in our design system that allow other engineers to build beautiful, consistent setup wizards across our product easily
• Helped a Product Engineer improve the information hierarchy and scannability of their design for viewing a candidate’s assessments

Skills

• No more than 2 years of industry experience as a designer or engineer for Junior Design Engineer
• Projects (personal or professional) with at least a couple of users that showcase great visual taste and burgeoning talent in both UI/UX and Engineering
• Good proficiency in TypeScript, React, and CSS
• Experience designing products and shipping code to hundreds of users (even if through side projects)

Qualifications

Must Haves

• No more than 2 years of industry experience as a designer or engineer for Junior Design Engineer
• Projects (personal or professional) with at least a couple of users that showcase great visual taste and burgeoning talent in both UI/UX and Engineering
• Good proficiency in TypeScript, React, and CSS
• Experience designing products and shipping code to hundreds of users (even if through side projects)

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• 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, and we will encourage you to take it.
• A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, covered by Ashby. For folks outside the US, it may be longer to be in line with regional requirements.
• 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.
• If you’re in the US, we offer top-tier health insurance for you and your dependents, with 100% of premiums covered by Ashby. In other countries, we provide high-quality supplemental health insurance for you and your dependents, also fully covered by us.