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Senior / Staff Product Designer

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  • 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
  • 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
  • Competitive salary and equity
  • 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
  • Remote-first with no required commute
  • Part I and Part II of how we redesigned the Linear UI
  • Our hiring process: How we hire at Linear
  • Read me a story about our mission
  • Why and how we do work trials Linear blog post
  • How we structure our product teams talk by our Head of Product, Nan Yu, at Config 2024
  • Crafting quality that endures Config keynote by our Co-founder & CEO, Karri Saarinen
  • Building for quality: Our Investment in Linear Accel Series B blog post
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