Product Designer

About Tailscale 

Tailscale is building the new Internet by delivering software that makes it easy to securely interconnect people and their devices, no matter where they are. From hobbyists to multinational corporations, teams of every size use Tailscale each day to protect their networks, share access to internal tools, and more. We're building a future for the Internet that's easy, sensible, and safe, like it used to be. Founded in 2019 and fully distributed, we're backed by Accel, CRV, Insight, Heavybit, and Uncork Capital.

Job Description:

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 helps 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 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:

• 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 our bar for craft and quality.

• Work closely with PMs and engineers to shape roadmaps and features 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 concepts.

• Work closely with other designers to contribute to our design system and our design processes.

• Advocate for and teach Tailscale’s design principles throughout the company.

Requirements:

• Strong written and 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.

• Have experience with technical products, subjects, and information architecture. 

• Explore and create delightful user experiences - journey maps, wireframes, high and low fidelity prototypes, polished UI, and complex compositions in alignment with our design system and product design principles.

• Experience contributing to, maintaining, and working from a design system.  

• Create compelling, simple, and beautiful UIs using Figma, HTML, CSS, Tailwind, and Radix.

Nice to Have:

• Front-end development skills.

• Experience designing native desktop and mobile apps. 

As a company, we strive to maintain fair and equitable compensation practices within our team across all roles and all levels. We use San Francisco market data to establish our pay ranges.

CAN Pay Ranges

$195,640 - $245,220 CAD

Frequently cited statistics show that people who identify with historically marginalized groups are likely to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to help us break that statistic!

What We Offer

• An inclusive, flexible environment where you can be your authentic self. We recognize the impact of diverse voices and backgrounds on the growth of our people, product, and company. And that flexibility in how and when you work empowers our team to integrate work and life.

• A competitive total compensation package. This includes a base salary, an equity incentive plan and variable commission (for quota-based roles).

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

• All-remote with the opportunity to work from anywhere—enjoy a change of scenery wherever you can get wifi, participate in virtual and in-person social events, and leverage our corporate co-working program to visit WeWork (or other similar spaces near you). 

• Connect with other Tailscalars IRL. Attend our annual company retreat, participate in team/department off-sites, or use your individual travel budget to meet up with team members in Canada, the US, or the UK. 

• Support for your personal and professional development. Grow your career thoughtfully with $1500 USD annually for professional development, or take advantage of mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities. 

• Paid time off and a healthy work-life integration. Our flexible, paid time off program supports you for any situation life throws your way, whether moving homes or travelling the world! We encourage all Tailscalars to take 4-6 weeks of vacation annually. 

• 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.