Senior - Staff Product Designer

At Linear, we are creating a new standard for modern software development. We are building the tools that empower the next generation of high-impact companies to do their best work. Linear’s project management software is designed based on the practices and processes that distinguish world-class product teams from the rest: relentless focus, fast execution, and a commitment to the quality of craft.

Founded in 2019, Linear has become the tool of choice for high-performance teams to build their products. A fully remote company from the start, our team is distributed across the US, Latin America, and Europe. No matter where we come from, we are makers at our core. We love new challenges and care deeply about the quality of our work.

As a small team, we’re all generalists and constantly picking up new challenges. When it comes to design, we’re looking to work with experienced people who can pick a problem and solve it. We care deeply about design. For us, it’s both how it works and how it looks. At its core, Linear is a developer tool where speed, interactions, and small details matter. We are designing it to be highly functional yet minimalistic and delightful. We expect a broad set of design skills and the ability to create high-quality designs, interactions, and prototypes. For these first designer roles, we are looking for people with several years of experience working in cross-functional product teams and creating interactive products and applications.

Please note: We are an equal opportunity employer and remote-only company. At this time, we can only support hiring within North America for this role.

Requirements

• Several years of experience leading and designing interactive applications

• Excellent visual, UI, and interaction skills

What you'll do

• Contribute to the overall product and design direction of the whole company

• Work cross-functionally with engineers and other partners

• Come up with features and improvements that ship quickly and with high quality

• Use and evolve our internal design system

• Create flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals for your features

• Work closely with engineers and other partners to ensure a high-quality implementation

• Help with hiring and establishing a design culture within the company

• Redefining best-in-class software design and development processes so that we can build an opinionated product

What we value

• Passion for design and figuring out best-in-class solutions to UX, UI, and interaction challenges

• Effective written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to think through complex interaction design

• Expressing ideas through visuals and prototyping (Linear uses Figma)

• Experience with design systems, programming, and using technical tools like (Git, VSCode, Origami, FramerX).

What we offer

• Interesting and challenging work

• Work-life balance

• Competitive salary and equity

• Employee-friendly equity terms (early exercise, extended exercise)

• Paid lunch and coffee during workdays

• Work remotely, no commuting to the office

• Paid co-working space/desk at an office

• Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)

• Regular team events and off-sites

• 5 weeks of paid vacation

• 4 months of paid parental leave

Learn how we think and work

• A story about our mission: Read Me

• Building our teams: Why and how we do work trials at Linear

• Accel Series B blog post: Building for Quality: Our Investment in Linear

• The technology behind our real-time sync engine from a talk by our cofounder Tuomas