Product Designer

Job Summary

We’re looking for a full-time Product Designer to join the growing Design Team at Tailscale. You’ll work with Product and Engineering counterparts to shape the features, products and experience we build for customers.

We place tremendous value on craft and quality. We strive for excellence in everything we do — from how we operate together as a team, to shipping fine-tuned UI details that make our product great.

Tailscale is a technical secure network connectivity product, but ease of use, zero-configuration, and great user experience are some of our strongest differentiators. Our product design needs to make the secure way the easy way, and help users understand complex security, networking, and privacy concepts. Design plays a critical role in making Tailscale accessible, understandable, and trustworthy to everyone from hobbyists to seasoned IT professionals.

We’re an early-stage and fully-remote company, and are looking for someone who is excited to collaborate closely with engineers and PMs, and is comfortable working asynchronously.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Understand and turn complex problems into easy to understand UIs that deliver delightfully simple experiences.
• Own the design process of projects end-to-end: from requirements, ideation, research, and testing, to information architecture, flows and interactions all the way through to guiding implementation.
• Continually maintain and improve craft and quality.
• Work closely with PMs and engineers to shape road maps and define long and short-term strategies for your projects.
• Work closely with engineers to make sure the shipped product is as high-quality as your mockups.
• Work closely with other designers to contribute to our nascent design system.
• Advocate for and teach Tailscale’s design principles throughout the company.
• Excellent at working cross functionally to get work across

Qualifications and Skills:

• Strong written, verbal communication skills that allow you to contribute meaningfully to strategy and alignment.

• Comfortable working collaboratively and iteratively. You actively seek feedback, are able to discern valuable feedback from noise, and are open to iterating as much as necessary. Your projects don’t end when the code is merged.

• Know how to independently manage workload and deadlines.

It’s nice if you have

• Experience with technical products, subjects and information architecture.

• Experience creating visual material for complex SaaS technology solutions at a B2B or enterprise technology company.

• Experience crafting, maintaining, and standardizing the use of brand guidelines.

• Front-end development skills.

• Experience designing native desktop and mobile apps.

What We Offer

• An inclusive, remote-first work environment where you can be your authentic self. We recognize the impact diverse voices and backgrounds have on the growth of our people, our product and our company.

• A competitive total compensation package. This includes base salary, equity incentive plan and 401K contributions.

• Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period. Take advantage of coverage for health, vision, dental, and more for you and your family, plus access to health and flexible spending accounts!

• Flexible work hours and the opportunity to work from anywhere—enjoy a change of scenery wherever you can get wifi and join twice annual retreats with fellow Tailscalars!

• Support for your personal and professional development. Grow your career thoughtfully with $1500 USD annually for professional development, leverage our conference budget to learn from experts in your field or take advantage of mentorship, coaching and internal promotion opportunities.

• Paid time off and a healthy work-life balance. Take advantage of 4 weeks vacation each year, uncapped sick time when you need it, and support for any situation life throws your way!

• A build-your-own home office setup. You choose your own company-owned laptop (MAC or PC), receive a monthly home internet reimbursement and $1000 USD to customize your workstation to make it your own.

• Generous parental leave program from your first day. We care about your life outside of work, and encourage new parents to take advantage of parental leave top-ups for up to 26 weeks.