Ben Asher

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Director of Engineering at Ashby

San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Overview

Ben Asher is the Director of Engineering at Ashby, guiding the development of its all-in-one recruiting software. He has a notable background in mobile and cross-platform development, particularly with Kotlin Multiplatform from his time at Autodesk. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Michigan.

Outside of his main role, Ben maintains a personal website which he designed and built himself. He is a recognized expert in his field, having been invited to speak at several international developer conferences, including in the US and Singapore. He currently resides in California.

He has presented his work on mobile and concurrency topics at major industry conferences like KotlinConf and droidcon NYC.

Personality Overview

Curious

Value Driven

Assertive

They are generally strong communicators and are not easy to convince.  They ask a lot of questions and rely heavily on information and collaterals. They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing.

Topics They Care About

Recruiting Technology
He is building Ashby, an all-in-one recruiting product that consolidates ATS, CRM, Scheduling, and Analytics into a single solution.
Kotlin Multiplatform
He has deep expertise in sharing code between iOS and Android using Kotlin, and has spoken at major conferences like KotlinConf on the topic.
Open Source Software
While at Autodesk, he co-authored and open-sourced 'coroutineworker', a library to improve multi-threaded coroutine support for Kotlin/Native.

Media Appearances

Ben has no verified media appearances

Work History

2-2026
Director of Engineering at Ashby
11-2024 - 2-2026
Engineering Manager at Ashby
5-2021 - 10-2024
Software Engineer at Ashby
11-2019 - 5-2021
Software Architect at Autodesk Construction Solutions
2-2019 - 11-2019
Senior Principal Engineer at Autodesk Construction Solutions

Education

2009 - 2013
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) from University of Michigan

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Insights For Selling To Ben

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Help them realize that there is no personal risk in making this decision
  • Build rapport, it will come handy to handle hard questions later
  • Ask them questions to understand their needs better while staying affable

DONT's

  • Don’t be too objective but make sure to pad your storytelling with data points
  • Avoid making offhand commitments
  • Don’t try to rush them into a decision, provide all necessary information first

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Ben is

  • Proven value, strong testimonials are important for them, rapport can impact decisions a little.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Ben

  • They are practical yet friendly, don’t expect a clear no very often.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Ben move?

  • They like to analyze well and can take their time to reach any decisions.
  • Can Ben take some risk or not?

  • They weigh all decisions systematically and are unlikely to take many risks.

You And Ben

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