Product Designer

Nearly every company in the world today runs on custom, internal software.(Gartner estimates that up to 50% of all code is written for internal usage!) This is the software that helps employees operate the business: refunding orders, underwriting loans, moderating content, managing marketplaces, rolling out new features, onboarding employees, viewing transactions, providing customer support, and much more. For most companies, building and maintaining all of these tools demands a lot of engineering time—expensive, scarce resources usually needed elsewhere.

Retool has set out to radically rethink how this custom internal software is built. We’ve created a new type of development environment, combining visual, drag-and-drop manipulation with code-based customization. It seamlessly integrates with nearly any data source and enables instant deployment to end-users. It’s a force multiplier for developers building internal tools, dramatically faster and easier than writing software from scratch.

We’ve made great progress so far: today, thousands of companies use Retool to create the internal software that powers their businesses, from small startups to Fortune 500 companies. We’re growing quickly and have assembled an incredible set of investors, including Sequoia and the founders of GitHub, Stripe, Plaid, Gusto, PagerDuty, Segment, and Y Combinator.

On the design team at Retool, our charge is to build the tool that builds the tools. This affords us incredible leverage: our design decisions will affect millions of people, from the developers creating software to the teams who operate it. Instead of designing just one product, we’re effectively designing software products for every company in the world.

This also presents a unique design challenge: because one can build nearly anything in Retool, we don’t have absolute control over how our users experience the product. We’re constantly seeking just the right balance between convention and configuration, between technical expressiveness and conceptual simplicity.

If you’re excited about building tools, fascinated by how people use and create software, and inspired to radically rethink what software development will look like in the future, we’d love to hear from you.

To keep up with our fast-paced growth, we’re looking for an experienced Product Designer to join our expanding design team. You’ll help to define Retool’s vision, product strategy, and user experience—driving the product design lifecycle from end-to-end. In close collaboration with engineering, you’ll break down technically complex problems and shape them into elegant, novel solutions that are discoverable, learnable, and powerful. And as an early member of the design team, you’ll have great influence in shaping our processes, objectives, culture, and growth.

As a product designer, you’ll be working closely with a diverse team of designers and engineers, while collaborating with support, success, sales, and marketing to draw out insights and see products through to market. Customers come first at Retool, so you’ll regularly interact with our users to understand their problems and ensure that we are shipping usable, impactful, and delightful features.