Senior / Staff Product Designer

We Are Founders; San Francisco, New York (CA, NY); Remote; USD 220,000 - 268,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Employee-friendly equity terms (early-

Daily meal and coffee stipend

Paid co-working space or desk

Health coverage

5 weeks paid vacation

4 months paid parental leave

Paid month off after 4 years & every 2

Regular team events and off-sites

Remote-first with no required commute

Job summary

Linear is a remote-first company seeking a senior designer to partner with engineers and product managers on roadmap projects, create mockups, and elevate our design system.

You will mentor peers, craft high-fidelity visuals in Figma, and contribute to hiring while thriving in an async, globally distributed team.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software design experience.
• Strong design thinking and ability to distill problems into clear solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, especially async.
• Experience prototyping in Figma and beyond (AI tools, HTML/CSS, Origami).

Responsibilities

• Pair with engineers and product to start and complete roadmap projects with no hand-offs.
• Identify opportunities to redesign key screens and flows and address quality issues.
• Create mockups, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals to communicate ideas.
• Mentor and inspire designers through collaborative critique of work-in-progress.
• Contribute to improving and using the lightweight design system.

Skills

UI/UX design

Prototyping

Design critique

Async communication

Collaboration

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.

Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 50,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, and we’re continuing to grow internationally. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship.

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.

Location & work mode

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. 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 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

We're a small, focused team that cares deeply about the quality of our work and the people we do it with. Here's what you can expect:

• 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

Compensation

For US-based candidates, the expected cash compensation range for this role is $220,000—$268,250. For sales roles, this range represents on-target earnings (OTE), including base salary and variable compensation; for all other roles, it represents base salary. Final compensation is determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. For sales roles, actual earnings vary based on sales performance. Equity is a meaningful part of all offers at Linear.

Learn how we think and work

• Part I https://linear.app/blog/a-design-reset and Part II https://linear.app/blog/how-we-redesigned-the-linear-ui of how we redesigned the Linear UI

• Our hiring process: How we hire at Linear https://linear.app/now/how-we-hire-at-linear

• Read me https://linear.app/readme a story about our mission

• Why and how we do work trials https://linear.app/blog/why-and-how-we-do-work-trials-at-linear Linear blog post

• How we use AI in design https://designerfund.substack.com/p/ai-design-linear feature of Linear's design team

• Crafting quality that endures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCil7YNhNCU Config keynote by our Co-founder & CEO, Karri Saarinen

• Our recent tender offer: Sharing Linear’s growth with the people building it https://linear.app/now/sharing-growth-with-the-people-building-linear

A note on recruitment fraud: all official Linear hiring communication comes from an @linear.app http://linear.app email address, and all open roles are listed at linear.app/careers http://linear.app/careers. We never ask candidates for payment or financial information. Suspicious messages can be reported to [e-mail].

Linear is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.