Senior / Staff Product Designer

Details

• 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