Product Designer (Growth)

Tailscale delivers software that securely interconnects people and their devices, making safe connections effortless. The Product Designer will join the Product Growth team to drive activation, onboarding, monetization, user expansion, and referral initiatives through experimentation, interaction design, prototyping, and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities:

• Draft & propose product changes that intend to move the needle on existing growth initiatives
• Participate in the experimentation lifecycle, learning from research and iterating based on feedback
• Contribute to a backlog of experiment ideas, generating multiple ways to address friction areas and influence user behavior through interaction design and prototyping
• Understand what our users are trying to do and advocate for product changes that support their best interests
• Uphold a high quality standard for what ships, balancing the need for experimentation with a high bar for permanent changes
• Partner with your PM, researcher, fellow designer, and engineers to define problems, define experiment goals as they relate to solutions proposed, and measure impact through experimentation

Requirements:

• 3-5+ years of product design experience, ideally with time spent on onboarding, growth, or monetization work
• Hands-on experience with common growth tooling and approaches such as A/B testing and behavioral analytics tooling (Amplitude, Pendo, etc.)
• Experience with self-serve, product-led SaaS business motions
• Comfort working with experiment results and interpreting findings that will guide design decisions
• Skilled at balancing speed and quality of deliverable designs
• Experience and skill working in distributed, async environments
• Hands-on experience with Tailscale, or working familiarity with networking concepts such as DNS, VPNs, or traffic routing
• Experience and opinion on thoughtful LLM tool usage within the design workflow, especially for prototyping and user testing