ABOUT RETOOL
Nearly every company in the world runs on custom software: Gartner estimates that up to 50% of all code is written for internal use. This is the operational software for refunding orders, underwriting loans, onboarding employees, analyzing transactions, and providing customer support. But most companies don’t have adequate resources to properly invest in these tools, leading to a lot of old and clunky internal software or, even worse, users still stuck in manual and spreadsheet flows.
At Retool, we’re on a mission to bring good software to everyone. We’re building a new type of development platform that combines the benefits of traditional software development with a drag-and-drop UI editor and AI, making it dramatically faster to build internal tools. We believe that the future of software development lies in abstracting away the tedious and repetitive tasks developers waste time on, while creating reusable components that act as a force multiplier for future developers and projects. The result is not just productivity, but good software by default. And that’s a mission worth striving for.
Today, our customers span from small startups building their first operational tools to Fortune 500 companies building mission-critical apps for thousands of users across their business. Interested in joining us? Let us know!
DESIGN AT RETOOL
Retool designers make decisions that will affect millions of people, from the developers creating software to the employees who operate it every day. Instead of designing just one product, we’re effectively designing unique software products for thousands of companies across many different verticals.
This also presents a unique design challenge. Because it’s possible to build nearly anything in Retool, we don’t have absolute control over how our users experience the product. We’re constantly seeking just the right balance between convention and configuration, between technical expressiveness and conceptual simplicity.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Our website is critical to Retool’s success: it’s the first impression of Retool for millions of visitors, and a trusted companion for customers as they learn the product. As an Interactive Designer you will play a key role in designing a cohesive, beautiful experience that tells the story of the power, flexibility, and speed of Retool. Our goal is not to settle on simply maintaining a cookie-cutter SaaS website: we aspire to win the hearts and minds of developers—and set the bar for the industry in the process. You’ll work on creative challenges across our marketing site, blog, documentation, community experiences, mini-sites, and more. This position sits within our Brand Design team and reports into the Head of Brand Design.
IN THIS ROLE, YOU'LL:
- Partner with design, marketing, engineering and product to create an extraordinary web experience for retool.com—from launching new products to pioneering groundbreaking forms of web content
- Help expand and maintain a flexible design system for Retool’s web experiences
- Collaborate closely with engineers to create beautiful, rich interactive experiences that blur the line between learning about Retool and actually using the product
- Champion the brand and ensure that design is applied consistently across all aspects of the business
- Design through iteration, experimentation and learned user behaviors
- Develop patterns and define how elements on our site behave across different web surfaces at scale
- Be an active participant in design at Retool, providing thoughtful feedback across design and product teams in critiques, reviews, and more
THE SKILLSET YOU’LL BRING:
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in visual design for web
- Experience and understanding of the formal elements of graphic design—not just limited to the web—including typography, color, layout, and composition
- Passion for the web as a medium, demonstrable through a portfolio of well-crafted work on interactive sites, design systems, data visualization, or similar
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively
- Strong grasp of interface-design skills—understanding of the impact of motion, viewport sizes, etc.
- A curiosity to stay educated on the latest design technologies and techniques, tempered by a desire to establish an original, opinionated style—not follow trends.
- A track record of successfully collaborating with design, marketing, and engineering partners to translate product needs, marketing insights, and technical constraints into informed design decisions
- Ability to independently prioritize work based on project objectives and business goals, and thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment
BONUS POINTS:
- Experience animating with Rive and designing motion systems
- Front-end development experience in building responsive web applications or prototyping visual interactive concepts
- A deep understanding of programming as a means to design solutions that resonate and empower a developer audience
- Experience building and maintaining design systems for web applications
For candidates based in San Francisco, the pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents base salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings (OTE) for commissionable roles. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Retool and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors such as (but not limited to), scope and responsibilities, the candidate’s experience and qualifications, and location.
Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity, and/or commission/bonuses are dependent on the position offered. Retool provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k). Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.
San Francisco
$141,200—$191,300 USD
Retool offers generous benefits to all employees and hybrid work location. For more information, please visit the benefits and perks section of our careers page!
Retool is currently set up to employ all roles in the US and specific roles in the UK. To find roles that can be employed in the UK, please refer to our careers page and review the indicated locations.
What We Do
Retool is a development platform for building business software. Users can visually design apps that interface with any database or API, and switch to code to customize how their apps look and work. With Retool, developers ship more apps and move their business forward—all in less time.
Thousands of teams at companies like Amazon, DoorDash, Peloton, and Brex collaborate around custom-built Retool apps to solve internal workflows. We're just getting started and growing quickly—join us!
Why Work With Us
Retools are solution drivers—whether fixing a button misalignment or enabling customers to build with the newest AI technologies, we wear many hats and act like owners. Our small teams work on big problems, pushing hard and moving quickly to create outsized impact. We hold each other accountable and celebrate together when we get it right. Join us!
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