Principal Product Designer

Linear; Lisboa; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Early exercise equity terms (US)

Meal and coffee stipend

Co-working space or desk

Health coverage

5 weeks paid vacation + holidays

4 months paid parental leave

Paid month off after 4 years & every 2

Team events and off-sites

Remote-first with no commute

Job summary

Linear is a remote-first company seeking a senior product designer to shape the design for its software tooling. You will team with engineers and product managers to drive roadmaps, improve key screens, and refine the design system with mockups, prototypes, and visuals.

The ideal candidate brings 7+ years of software design experience, boldness to challenge ideas, and humility to iterate based on feedback. Strong visual design and prototyping skills are required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of 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.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with engineering and product to initiate and complete roadmap projects.
• Spot opportunities to redesign or refine key screens and flows, and address quality issues.
• Create mockups, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals to communicate ideas and execution.
• Guide and inspire fellow designers through collaborative critique of work-in-progress.

Skills

Design leadership

UX research

Prototyping

Visual design

Tools

Figma

HTML/CSS

Origami

Job description

At Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents.

AI

is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we're shaping the tools this new era requires. 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. Linear is a remote-first company, with optional co-working offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. This role is open to candidates based in North America and Europe. You can work from anywhere within this region.

We value deep focus and async collaboration, with intentional moments to connect in person through team off-sites, optional co-working, and occasional travel.

What You'll Be Doing

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 You'll Bring

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.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• Employee-friendly equity terms including early exercise in the US and extended exercise windows.
• Daily meal and coffee stipend on every workday.
• Paid co-working space or desk.
• Health coverage (based on country requirements).
• 5 weeks paid vacation, plus local statutory holidays.
• 4 months paid parental leave.
• Paid month off after 4 years & every 2 years thereafter.
• Regular team events and off-sites.
• Remote-first with no required commute.

About Linear

How we hire at Linear Linear blog post. 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 use AI in design feature of Linear's design team. Crafting quality that endures Config keynote by our Co-founder & CEO, Karri Saarinen. Our recent tender offer: Sharing Linear's growth with the people building it.