Product Designer (Growth)

Summary

Tailscale delivers software that securely interconnects people and their devices, making safe connections effortless. The Product Designer will join the Product Growth team to drive activation, onboarding, monetization, user expansion, and referral initiatives through experimentation, interaction design, prototyping, and cross-functional collaboration.

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

Skills

• 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
• 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

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 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 Haves

• 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

Benefits

• An inclusive, flexible environment where you can be your authentic self.
• A competitive total compensation package. This includes an equity incentive plan and variable commission (for quota-based roles).
• Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period, including health, vision, dental, and more for you and your family.
• Remote first company—most of our teams work fully remotely. 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).
• Employer-funded retirement contributions: Tailscale will match your retirement contributions dollar-for-dollar, up to a maximum annual employer contribution equal to 0.75% of your eligible compensation.
• Attend our annual company retreat, participate in team off-sites, and collaborate in person with teammates across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Singapore.
• $1500 USD annually for professional development, or mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities.
• Flexible, paid time off program.
• A company-owned laptop (Mac or PC), a monthly home internet reimbursement, and $500 USD to customize your workstation.
• Paid parental leave program with parental leave top-ups: 20 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents.