Ashby
Product ManagerComplexAug 6, 2026

Automate overdue candidate retention without data loss

Data-retention controls become difficult when the right action is permanent and exceptions are consequential.

Teams must reduce sensitive-data exposure while preserving the records and history that policy still requires.

I need fewer expired records, but I can’t approve a cleanup process I can’t explain later.

Yash Rao · Director of Recruiting Compliance

Owns retention-policy adherence for a multinational employer using the platform as its recruiting record system.

What pulls against what

  • data minimization vs. required preservation
  • automation coverage vs. deletion certainty
  • enterprise urgency vs. irreversible risk
  • native control vs. vendor delegation

What is at stake

Manual cleanup leaves sensitive candidate records beyond policy windows. A wrong automated deletion can be impossible to recover from

Why Ashby

At Ashby, this often matters because recruiting records carry both operational value and sensitive personal information.

Written for

risk-aware product managerenterprise platform buildercompliance-focused workflow strategist

This is the setup. The work is inside.

Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.