[Hiring] Product Designer @Tailscale

Role Description

The Product Design team at Tailscale is looking for an experienced Designer to join our dedicated Product Growth team. You will be the second designer on an existing cross-functional team and work to propel initiatives around activation, onboarding, monetization, user expansion, and the referral flywheel.

Working closely with Product, UX Research, and Engineering, this role will focus on delivering minimum-viable solutions intended to test a hypothesis. We’re looking for someone who enjoys the cadence of regular delivery, learning from experiments, and upholding a high craft bar.

This role will work closely with an experienced Product Designer within the Growth space and will report to the Product Design Manager.

Key Responsibilities

• Draft & propose product changes that intend to move the needle on existing growth initiatives.
• Participate in the experimentation lifecycle, learning from research and iterating based on feedback.
• Contribute to a backlog of experiment ideas, generating multiple ways to address friction areas and influence user behavior through interaction design and prototyping.
• Understand what our users are trying to do and advocate for product changes that support their best interests.
• Uphold a high quality standard for what ships, balancing the need for experimentation with a high bar for permanent changes.
• Partner with your PM, researcher, fellow designer, and engineers to define problems, define experiment goals as they relate to solutions proposed, and measure impact through experimentation.

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of product design experience, ideally with time spent on onboarding, growth, or monetization work.
• Hands-on experience with common growth tooling and approaches such as A/B testing and behavioral analytics tooling (Amplitude, Pendo, etc.).
• Experience with self-serve, product-led SaaS business motions.
• Comfort working with experiment results and interpreting findings that will guide design decisions.
• Skilled at balancing speed and quality of deliverable designs.
• Experience and skill working in distributed, async environments.

Nice to Have

• Hands-on experience with Tailscale, or working familiarity with networking concepts such as DNS, VPNs, or traffic routing.
• Experience and opinion on thoughtful LLM tool usage within the design workflow, especially for prototyping and user testing.

Requirements

• As a company, we strive to maintain fair and equitable compensation practices within our team across all roles and all levels.
• Tailscale's compensation package includes base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits.
• The salary range displayed on each job posting represents the target range for a new hire's base salary. Individual offers may vary based on experience and skill set.

US Pay Range

$122,000 — $183,000 USD

Benefits

• An inclusive, flexible environment where you can be your authentic self.
• A competitive total compensation package including base salary, an equity incentive plan, and variable commission (for quota-based roles).
• Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period, covering health, vision, dental, and more for you and your family.
• Remote first company—most of our teams work fully remotely.
• Employer-funded retirement contributions, matching your retirement contributions dollar-for-dollar, up to a maximum annual employer contribution equal to 0.75% of your eligible compensation.
• Connect with other Tailscalars IRL through annual company retreats and team off-sites.
• Support for your personal and professional development with $1500 USD annually for professional development.
• Paid time off and a healthy work-life integration with a flexible, paid time off program.
• A build-your-own home office setup with a company-owned laptop and $500 USD to customize your workstation.
• Paid parental leave program with top-ups for new parents.