Hybrid Product Designer, Observability

at re-tool

• Job title: Product Designer, Observability
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $181,060 - $255,000 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Product Designer at Retool designing observability interfaces and debugging tools. Drive end-to-end product design for monitoring, dashboards, and developer-focused UX.

Responsibilities

• Design user-friendly interfaces that make system health, reliability, and performance easy to monitor at a glance
• Collaborate with engineering to visualize complex data in ways that empower customers, not overwhelm them
• Shape the tools that help builders quickly debug problems and trust their apps at scale.
• Evangelize design solutions that make observability a first-class, intuitive part of the Retool experience
• Perform user research to identify problems and validate solutions
• Produce the artifacts needed—specs, sketches, wireframes, mockups, prototypes, or code—to take UI ideas from conception to production
• Participate in design reviews and share work regularly with designers, cross-functional teams, leadership, and the company
• Contribute to Retool’s design system and component library
• Help establish design team processes and uphold high standards for design and product quality

Requirements

• Have a strong portfolio demonstrating a generalist design skills and at least 5+ years of experience driving the product design lifecycle from end-to-end
• Are excited about breaking down technically complex problems into abstractions, finding a balance between ease of use, learnability, and power
• Love thinking systematically about hard problems with a lot of tradeoffs—then going deep on getting the details right through rapid, continual iteration
• Are customer-obsessed and excited to spend time with users
• Have experience designing developer-centric products, creative software, and/or enterprise internal tools
• Are an excellent communicator (and consider writing to be a fundamental design skill)
• Thrive in ambiguity, can independently prioritize work based on user needs and business goals, and take responsibility to drive product ideas forward
• Are inspired to radically rethink how software is built

Benefits

• 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.
• 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!