Job Description

We’re looking for a full-time Product Designer to join the growing Design Team at Tailscale. You’ll work with Product and Engineering counterparts to shape the features, products and experience we build for customers.

We place tremendous value on craft and quality. We strive for excellence in everything we do — from how we operate together as a team, to shipping fine-tuned UI details that make our product great.

Tailscale is a technical secure network connectivity product. Ease of use, zero-configuration, and great user experience are some of our strongest differentiators. Our product design needs to make the secure way the easy way, and help users understand complex security, networking, and privacy concepts. Design plays a critical role in making Tailscale accessible, understandable, and trustworthy to everyone from hobbyists to seasoned IT professionals.

We’re an early-stage and fully-remote company, and are looking for someone who is excited to collaborate closely with engineers and PMs, and is comfortable working asynchronously.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Understand and turn complex problems into easy to understand UIs that deliver delightfully simple experiences.

• Own the design process of projects end-to-end: from requirements, ideation, research, and testing, to information architecture, flows and interactions all the way through to guiding implementation.

• Continually maintain and improve craft and  quality.

• Work closely with PMs and engineers to shape road maps and define long and short-term strategies for your projects.

• Work closely with engineers to make sure the shipped product is as high-quality as your mockups.

• Work closely with other designers to contribute to our nascent design system.

• Advocate for and teach Tailscale’s design principles throughout the company.

• Excellent at working cross functionally to get work across

Qualifications and Skills

• High level of technical curiosity.

• Strong written, verbal communication skills that allow you to contribute meaningfully to strategy and alignment.

• Comfortable working collaboratively, iteratively and transparently. You actively seek feedback, are able to discern valuable feedback from noise, and are open to iterating as much as necessary. Your projects don’t end when the code is merged.

• Know how to independently manage workload, deadlines and stakeholders.

It’s nice if you have

• Experience with technical products, subjects and information architecture.

• Experience creating visual material for complex SaaS technology solutions at a B2B or enterprise technology company.

• Experience crafting, maintaining, and standardizing the use of brand guidelines.

• Front-end development skills.

• Experience designing native desktop and mobile apps.

About Tailscale

Tailscale builds software that makes it easy to connect and secure devices, no matter where they are. Every day, banks and multinational companies use Tailscale to protect their corporate networks. Hobbyists and start-ups trust Tailscale to collaborate and share access to tooling. We're building a future for the Internet that's easy, small and safe, like it used to be. Founded in 2019 and fully distributed, we're backed by Accel, HeavyBit, and Uncork Capital.  

👉 Here's a but more about our team: https://read.cv/teams/tailscale

Looking forward to meeting you!