At Linear, we are on a mission is to inspire and accelerate builders. To help teams do their best work, we are creating a purpose-built tool for planning and building products that combines elegant UI with world-class performance. Founded in 2019, Linear has become the tool of choice for 10,000+ companies.
Quality is our competitive advantage. Every member of our fully remote team is a maker at heart, caring deeply about the quality and feel of our work. While the industry optimizes for speed and metrics alone, we believe that craft and quality have lasting value. Quality creates gravity — it pulls people toward our team and product rather than requiring us to push. This philosophy drives everything we do, from product decisions to hiring choices.
For this role, we expect robust design skills, sharp product thinking, and the ability to engage in technical discussions. We work in small, autonomous project teams, where engineers are paired tightly with designers to explore ideas, build prototypes, deploy internal builds, and ultimately ship to customers. You will be a key element of projects from beginning to end.
Please note: We are an equal opportunity employer and remote-only company. At this time, we can only support hiring within North America and Canada for this role.
What you'll do
Pair closely with engineering and product to initiate and complete roadmap projects, no hand-offs
Spot opportunities to redesign or refine key screens and flows, as well as smaller quality issues and “paper cuts” as you use Linear
Create mockups, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals to communicate ideas and describe their execution
Guide and inspire fellow designers through collaborative critique of work-in-progress
Use and improve our lightweight design system components
Help with hiring new teammates that can elevate our team and product
What we’re looking for
7+ years experience designing software
Courage to ask questions, experiment, and advocate for what you feel is right
Humility to accept feedback, adapt your thinking, and iterate toward the best solution
Experience with prototyping in Figma (and beyond with tools like AI, HTML/CSS, Origami)
Ability to distill problems and feedback, then design clear, focused solutions
Effective written and verbal communication skills — much of our work is async
What we offer
A team of the most talented people you will ever work with
Engaging work that will challenge you
Balance and flexibility through remote work
Competitive salary and equity (including early and extended exercise)
Paid lunch and coffee during workdays
Paid co-working space/desk at an office
Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)
Regular team events and off-sites
5 weeks of paid vacation
4 months of paid parental leave
Learn how we think and work
Part I and Part II of how we redesigned the Linear UI
Read me a story about our mission
Why and how we do work trials Linear blog post
How we structure our product teams talk by our Head of Product, Nan Yu, at Config 2024
Crafting quality that endures Config keynote by our Co-founder & CEO, Karri Saarinen
Building for quality: Our Investment in Linear Accel Series B blog post
Top Skills
What We Do
We started Linear from our own frustrations building software projects in successful high-growth companies like Airbnb, Coinbase and Uber. We wanted to create the tools that focus us and our teams in making progress, not get in the way. Tools that are fast and efficient. Speed and performance was one the main things we focused on early on and keep focusing on that.
At Linear we believe software can feel magical. Quality of software is driven by both the talent of its creators and how they feel while they’re crafting it.
