Product Designer

San Francisco, CA

Publishing Industries

About the position

At Retool, we're designing a new type of development environment that makes it dramatically faster and easier to build internal software. Our mission is to unify the ease of visual programming with the power of code, while abstracting away the tedious and repetitive tasks of development. As a Product Designer, you'll be joining a collaborative team that makes decisions affecting millions of users, balancing convention and configuration in our design process.

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

Requirements

• Strong portfolio demonstrating generalist design skills and experience driving the product design lifecycle from end-to-end
• Excited about breaking down technically complex problems into abstractions, balancing ease of use, learnability, and power
• Ability to think systematically about hard problems with tradeoffs and iterate on details
• Customer-obsessed and excited to spend time with users
• Experience designing developer-centric products, creative software, and/or enterprise internal tools
• Comfortable with basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; bonus points for working knowledge of SQL, databases, or APIs
• Excellent communicator with writing considered a fundamental design skill
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity, prioritize work based on user needs and business goals, and drive product ideas forward
• Inspired to radically rethink how software is built