Lead Product Designer

At Linear, we are on a mission to create 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 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 default tool of choice for high-performance teams to build their products. Set up as a fully remote company from the start, our team is currently distributed across a variety of countries across the US, Latin America and Europe (we hire within US/EU timezones). We are a diverse team of individuals, all makers at heart. We love picking up 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 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.

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)

• Macbook Pro, 5K display and accessories

• Stipend to set up your home office

• Paid lunch and coffee during work days

• Work remotely, no commuting to the office

• Paid co-working space/desk at an office

• Regular team events and offsites

• 5 weeks paid vacation

• 4 months paid parental leave