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Ashby builds talent acquisition software competing directly against established players like Greenhouse and Lever. The stack reveals a deliberate integration strategy—Workday replacement signals an in-house HR ambitions beyond recruitment, while heavy adoption of Gong, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and Chilipiper suggests customer-facing sales motion maturity. Engineering dominates the headcount (197 of 387 roles), but the pain-point list—'expanding product beyond talent acquisition', 'competitive rip-and-replace opportunities'—indicates product scope creep and margin pressure from incumbents.
Tech Stack 18 technologies
Core StackSnowflake Figma React Jira Shopify Workday Greenhouse Lever HubSpot Zapier Gong Notion Linear Acuity Scheduling LinkedIn Sales Navigator Chilipiper LeadIQ
ReplacingWorkday
What Ashby Is Building
◆Challenges
- Expanding product beyond talent acquisition
- Software holding back recruiting teams
- Legacy tools
- Scaling infrastructure for growth
- Inefficient recruiter scheduling
- Scaling engineering team
- Supporting talent acquisition through software
- Slow candidate scheduling
- Software not meeting recruiting standards
- Competitive rip-and-replace opportunities
▲Active Projects
- Absorbing and synthesizing highly technical work from our engineering team to create enablement for technical up-leveling of the broader support team
- Building products beyond talent acquisition
- Build composable components for design system
- Implement design system
- Improve information hierarchy for candidate assessments
- Talent acquisition software platform
- Workflow automation for team cohesion
- Provide feedback on product and technical specs
- Generate and simulate data in demo accounts
- Improve data generation in demo accounts
Hiring Activity
390 roles · 65 in 30d
Department
Seniority
Notable leadership hires: Content Lead, Head of Security, Head of Demand Generation, Head of Renewals
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