linear - Senior / Staff Product Designer
Requirements
• 7+ years experience designing software • Courage to ask questions, experiment, and advocate for what you feel is right • Humility to accept feedback, adapt your thinking, and iterate toward the best solution • Experience with prototyping in Figma (and beyond with tools like AI, HTML/CSS, Origami) • Ability to distill problems and feedback, then design clear, focused solutions • Effective written and verbal communication skills — much of our work is async • Learn how we think and work • How we hire at Linear https://linear.app/now/how-we-hire-at-linear Linear blog post • Part I https://linear.app/blog/a-design-reset and Part II https://linear.app/blog/how-we-redesigned-the-linear-ui of how we redesigned the Linear UI • Read me https://linear.app/readme a story about our mission • Why and how we do work trials https://linear.app/blog/why-and-how-we-do-work-trials-at-linear Linear blog post • How we structure our product teams https://www.youtube.com/watch?index=59&list=PLXDU_eVOJTx402DljIPagaDKLibF-qfF0&v=I4vvBidQcck talk by our Head of Product, Nan Yu, at Config 2024 • Crafting quality that endures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCil7YNhNCU Config keynote by our Co-founder & CEO, Karri Saarinen • Building for quality: Our Investment in Linear https://accel.com/noteworthy/our-investment-in-linear Accel Series B blog post
Responsibilities
• Pair closely with engineering and product to initiate and complete roadmap projects, no hand-offs • Spot opportunities to redesign or refine key screens and flows, as well as smaller quality issues and “paper cuts” as you use Linear • Create mockups, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals to communicate ideas and describe their execution • Guide and inspire fellow designers through collaborative critique of work-in-progress • Use and improve our lightweight design system components • Help with hiring new teammates that can elevate our team and product
Benefits
• We're a small, focused team that cares deeply about the quality of our work and the people we do it with. Here's what you can expect: • Employee-friendly equity terms including early exercise in the US and extended exercise windows • Daily meal and coffee stipend on every workday • Paid co-working space or desk • Health coverage (based on country requirements) • 5 weeks paid vacation, plus local statutory holidays • 4 months paid parental leave • Paid month off after 4 years & every 2 years thereafter • Regular team events and off-sites
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