Head of QA

Hi 👋🏾 I’m Abhik, Ashby’s Co-Founder and VP of Engineering. Ashby builds software that enables talent teams to run an efficient and delightful hiring process. Our software simplifies and automates complex workflows (like scheduling a candidate) and bundles what are traditionally different software tools into one.

As a result, our software is comprehensive and deep. It covers the feature set of at least four other products. It models the complexity of hiring at the scale of thousands of employees while deeply integrating with other systems like email and calendar. We accomplish much of this by creating reusable building blocks (e.g., a form builder for surveys and application forms) to provide a powerful feature set out-of-the-box while being familiar and easy to use.

Our approach presents some exciting challenges in QA-ing our software. First, it requires a deep understanding of recruiting to empower the creation of QA plans that cover use cases across our wide array of features and the seams between them. Second, it requires QA to be product experts to understand how a change (particularly to a building block) can propagate through our features to identify edge cases.

You will lead our QA team of three QA analysts to help us meet our unique challenges. You will set the larger vision on how QA evolves to reduce regressions while maintaining a high shipping velocity as the product, team, customer base, and customer size grow. Our team has already adopted QA tools (TestRail, Testim) and established some processes and metrics, so you’ll inherit a reasonably mature team for its size (versus starting from scratch).

This role will report to me and work closely with our Director of Engineering in EMEA, Colin. He has a passion for QA and will lead our testing strategy in Engineering. Together, you’ll set an industry-leading standard for software quality.

I’m looking for someone exacting who manages their team with both empathy and rigor. While we’re open to folks with different levels of experience (hence the wide compensation range), we have some minimum requirements:

• You work remotely in the US or Canada. We prefer folks who can overlap with EMEA time zones, as we will add QA team members in EMEA to support our growing EMEA Engineering team.

• You’ve managed a team of at least two QA analysts or engineers. We want someone with great management instincts that have already been tested.

• You’ve set …