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Product Designer

Product Designer

CompanyRetool
LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA
Salary$164600 – $251900
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelJunior, Mid Level

Requirements

  • Have a strong portfolio demonstrating a generalist design skills and experience driving the product design lifecycle from end-to-end
  • Are excited about breaking down technically complex problems into abstractions, finding a balance between ease of use, learnability, and power
  • Love thinking systematically about hard problems with a lot of tradeoffs—then going deep on getting the details right through rapid, continual iteration
  • Are customer-obsessed and excited to spend time with users
  • Have experience designing developer-centric products, creative software, and/or enterprise internal tools
  • Are comfortable with basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. (Bonus points if you have some working knowledge of SQL, databases, or APIs!)
  • Are an excellent communicator (and consider writing to be a fundamental design skill)
  • Thrive in ambiguity, can independently prioritize work based on user needs and business goals, and take responsibility to drive product ideas forward
  • Are inspired to radically rethink how software is built

Responsibilities

  • Own and drive the complete product design lifecycle of major features
  • Partner with product, engineering, success, sales, and marketing to understand business objectives and uncover customer insights
  • Perform user research to identify problems and validate solutions
  • Produce the artifacts needed—specs, sketches, wireframes, mockups, prototypes, or code—to take UI ideas from conception to production
  • Participate in design reviews and share work regularly with designers, cross-functional teams, leadership, and the company
  • Contribute to Retool’s design system and component library
  • Help establish design team processes and uphold high standards for design and product quality

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bonus points if you have some working knowledge of SQL, databases, or APIs!