Product Designer (Growth)

About Tailscale Tailscale is making safe connection effortless by delivering software that makes it easy to securely interconnect people and their devices, no matter where they are.

From hobbyists to multinational corporations, teams of every size use Tailscale each day to protect their networks, share access to internal tools, and more. We're building a future for the Internet that's easy, sensible, and safe, like it used to be.

Founded in 2019 and fully distributed, we're backed by Accel, CRV, Insight, Heavybit, and Uncork Capital.

About the Role

The Product Design team at Tailscale is looking for an experienced Designer to join our dedicated Product Growth team. You will be the second designer on an existing cross-functional team and work to propel initiatives around activation, onboarding, monetization, user expansion, and the referral flywheel.

Working closely with Product, UX Research, and Engineering, this role will focus on delivering minimum-viable solutions intended to test a hypothesis. We’re looking for someone who enjoys the cadence of regular delivery, learning from experiments, and upholding a high craft bar.

This role will work closely with an experienced Product Designer within the Growth space and will report to the Product Design Manager.

Key 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 experime