Product Designer | Tailscale | Remote (United States)
Posted 2025-09-08
Remote, USA
Full Time
Immediate Start
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">About Tailscale</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Tailscale is building the new Internet by delivering software that makes it easy to securely interconnect people and their devices, no matter where they are. From hobbyists to multinational corporations, teams of every size use Tailscale each day to protect their networks, share access to internal tools, and more. We’re building a future for the Internet that’s easy, sensible, and safe, like it used to be. Founded in 2019 and fully distributed, we’re backed by Accel, CRV, Insight, Heavybit, and Uncork Capital.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Job Description:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Tailscale is a technical secure network connectivity product, but 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 helps 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 professionals.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Responsibilities:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Understand and turn complex problems into easy-to-understand UIs that deliver delightfully simple experiences.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">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.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Continually maintain and improve our bar for craft and quality.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Work closely with PMs and engineers to shape roadmaps and features and define long- and short-term strategies for your projects.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Work closely with engineers to make sure the shipped product is as high-quality as your concepts.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Work closely with other designers to contribute to our design system and our design processes.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Advocate for and teach Tailscale’s design principles throughout the company.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Requirements:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Strong written and verbal communication skills that allow you to contribute meaningfully to strategy and alignment.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Comfortable working collaboratively and iteratively. 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.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Know how to independently manage workload and deadlines.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Have experience with technical products, subjects, and information architecture.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Explore and create delightful user experiences – journey maps, wireframes, high and low fidelity prototypes, polished UI, and complex compositions in alignment with our design system and product design principles.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience contributing to, maintaining, and working from a design system.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Create compelling, simple, and beautiful UIs using Figma, HTML, CSS, Tailwind, and Radix.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Nice to Have:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Front-end development skills.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience designing native desktop and mobile apps.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">As a company, we strive to maintain fair and equitable compensation practices within our team across all roles and all levels. We use San Francisco market data to establish our pay ranges.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">US Pay Ranges</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">$146,000—$183,000 USD</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>Frequently cited statistics show that people who identify with historically marginalized groups are likely to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications.</em> <strong class=" font-semibold"><em>We encourage you to help us break that statistic!</em></strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What We Offer</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">An inclusive, flexible environment where you can be your authentic self.</strong> We recognize the impact of diverse voices and backgrounds on the growth of our people, product, and company. And that flexibility in how and when you work empowers our team to integrate work and life.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">A competitive total compensation package.</strong> This includes a base salary, an equity incentive plan and variable commission (for quota-based roles).</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period.</strong> Take advantage of coverage for health, vision, dental, and more for you and your family!</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">All-remote with the opportunity to work from anywhere</strong>—enjoy a change of scenery wherever you can get wifi, participate in virtual and in-person social events, and leverage our corporate co-working program to visit WeWork (or other similar spaces near you).</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Connect with other Tailscalars IRL.</strong> Attend our annual company retreat, participate in team/department off-sites, or use your individual travel budget to meet up with team members in Canada, the US, or the UK.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Support for your personal and professional development.</strong> Grow your career thoughtfully with $1500 USD annually for professional development, or take advantage of mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Paid time off and a healthy work-life integration.</strong> Our flexible, paid time off program supports you for any situation life throws your way, whether moving homes or travelling the world! We encourage all Tailscalars to take 4-6 weeks of vacation annually**.**</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">A build-your-own home office setup.</strong> You choose your own company-owned laptop (Mac or PC), receive a monthly home internet reimbursement, and $1000 USD to customize your workstation to make it your own.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Generous parental leave program from your first day.</strong> We care about your life outside of work and encourage new parents to take advantage of parental leave top-ups for up to 26 weeks.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Tailscale is building the new Internet by delivering software that makes it easy to securely interconnect people and their devices, no matter where they are. From hobbyists to multinational corporations, teams of every size use Tailscale each day to protect their networks, share access to internal tools, and more. We’re building a future for the Internet that’s easy, sensible, and safe, like it used to be. Founded in 2019 and fully distributed, we’re backed by Accel, CRV, Insight, Heavybit, and Uncork Capital.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Job Description:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Tailscale is a technical secure network connectivity product, but 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 helps 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 professionals.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Responsibilities:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Understand and turn complex problems into easy-to-understand UIs that deliver delightfully simple experiences.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">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.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Continually maintain and improve our bar for craft and quality.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Work closely with PMs and engineers to shape roadmaps and features and define long- and short-term strategies for your projects.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Work closely with engineers to make sure the shipped product is as high-quality as your concepts.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Work closely with other designers to contribute to our design system and our design processes.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Advocate for and teach Tailscale’s design principles throughout the company.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Requirements:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Strong written and verbal communication skills that allow you to contribute meaningfully to strategy and alignment.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Comfortable working collaboratively and iteratively. 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.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Know how to independently manage workload and deadlines.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Have experience with technical products, subjects, and information architecture.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Explore and create delightful user experiences – journey maps, wireframes, high and low fidelity prototypes, polished UI, and complex compositions in alignment with our design system and product design principles.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience contributing to, maintaining, and working from a design system.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Create compelling, simple, and beautiful UIs using Figma, HTML, CSS, Tailwind, and Radix.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Nice to Have:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Front-end development skills.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience designing native desktop and mobile apps.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">As a company, we strive to maintain fair and equitable compensation practices within our team across all roles and all levels. We use San Francisco market data to establish our pay ranges.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">US Pay Ranges</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">$146,000—$183,000 USD</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>Frequently cited statistics show that people who identify with historically marginalized groups are likely to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications.</em> <strong class=" font-semibold"><em>We encourage you to help us break that statistic!</em></strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What We Offer</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">An inclusive, flexible environment where you can be your authentic self.</strong> We recognize the impact of diverse voices and backgrounds on the growth of our people, product, and company. And that flexibility in how and when you work empowers our team to integrate work and life.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">A competitive total compensation package.</strong> This includes a base salary, an equity incentive plan and variable commission (for quota-based roles).</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period.</strong> Take advantage of coverage for health, vision, dental, and more for you and your family!</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">All-remote with the opportunity to work from anywhere</strong>—enjoy a change of scenery wherever you can get wifi, participate in virtual and in-person social events, and leverage our corporate co-working program to visit WeWork (or other similar spaces near you).</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Connect with other Tailscalars IRL.</strong> Attend our annual company retreat, participate in team/department off-sites, or use your individual travel budget to meet up with team members in Canada, the US, or the UK.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Support for your personal and professional development.</strong> Grow your career thoughtfully with $1500 USD annually for professional development, or take advantage of mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Paid time off and a healthy work-life integration.</strong> Our flexible, paid time off program supports you for any situation life throws your way, whether moving homes or travelling the world! We encourage all Tailscalars to take 4-6 weeks of vacation annually**.**</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">A build-your-own home office setup.</strong> You choose your own company-owned laptop (Mac or PC), receive a monthly home internet reimbursement, and $1000 USD to customize your workstation to make it your own.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Generous parental leave program from your first day.</strong> We care about your life outside of work and encourage new parents to take advantage of parental leave top-ups for up to 26 weeks.</span></li>
</ul>