We care deeply about design. For us, it’s both how it works and how it looks. As a Principal Product Designer, you'll stretch your creativity to define product strategy for various team and independent projects. We expect a broad set of design skills and the ability to create high-quality designs, interactions, and prototypes. We strongly believe that attention to detail and a design-centric approach are at the core of creating exceptional user experiences, and designers at Linear are at the forefront of making that vision a reality.

Please note: We are an equal opportunity employer and remote-only company. At this time, we can only support hiring within North America for this role.

Requirements

• Passion for design and figuring out best-in-class solutions to UX, UI, and interaction challenges
• A portfolio of excellent product designs delivered within a fast-paced environment
• Ability to think through complex interaction design
• Ability to express ideas through visuals and prototyping (Linear uses Figma)
• Experience with design systems, programming, and using technical tools like (Git, VSCode, Origami, FramerX)
• Excellent visual, UI, and interaction skills

What you'll do

• Contribute to overall strategy and decision-making about product direction
• Lead end-to-end design projects, participate in weekly design critiques, and work closely with engineers and other stakeholders to ensure a high-quality implementation
• Come up with features and improvements that ship quickly and with high-quality
• Create flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals for your features
• Help with hiring and establishing a design culture within the company
• Help establish early processes that continue to advocate our attention to detail and design-centric approach

What we offer

• Interesting and challenging work
• Work-life balance
• Competitive salary and equity
• Employee-friendly equity terms (early exercise, extended exercise)
• Paid lunch and coffee during workdays
• Work remotely, no commuting to the office
• Paid co-working space/desk at an office
• Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)
• Regular team events and off-sites
• 5 weeks of paid vacation
• 4 months of paid parental leave

Learn how we think and work

• How we redesigned the Linear UI: Part I and Part II
• A story about our mission: Read Me
• Building our teams: Why and how we do work trials at Linear
• Accel Series B blog post: Building for Quality: Our Investment in Linear