Product Designer (Growth)

Tailscale

6d • $122,000 - $183,000 • Remote

About The Position

Tailscale is hiring an experienced Product Designer to join its dedicated Product Growth team as the team's second designer. The role will support initiatives involving activation, onboarding, monetization, user expansion, and referrals. Working with Product, UX Research, and Engineering, the designer will develop minimum-viable solutions to test hypotheses, learn from experiments, and maintain a high standard of craft. The role works closely with an experienced Product Designer in Growth and reports to the Product Design Manager.

Requirements

• 3–5+ years of product design experience.
• Hands-on experience with growth tools and approaches, such as A/B testing and behavioral analytics tools (e.g., Amplitude or Pendo).
• Experience with self-serve, product-led SaaS business models.
• Comfort interpreting experiment results to guide design decisions.
• Ability to balance delivery speed and design quality.
• Experience and skill working in distributed, asynchronous environments.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Tailscale or familiarity with networking concepts such as DNS, VPNs, or traffic routing.
• Experience with and opinions about thoughtful use of LLM tools in design workflows, particularly for prototyping and user testing.
• Experience with onboarding, growth, or monetization work.

Responsibilities

• Draft and propose product changes intended to advance existing growth initiatives.
• Participate in the experimentation lifecycle, learning from research and iterating based on feedback.
• Contribute experiment ideas and develop multiple approaches to address friction and influence user behavior through interaction design and prototyping.
• Understand users’ goals and advocate for product changes that support their interests.
• Maintain a high quality bar for shipped work while balancing experimentation with the quality of permanent changes.
• Partner with the product manager, researcher, fellow designer, and engineers to define problems and experiment goals, and measure impact through experimentation.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package including base salary, equity, and, for quota-based roles, variable commission.
• Comprehensive group health, vision, and dental benefits with no waiting period.
• Employer retirement contributions matched dollar-for-dollar up to a maximum annual employer contribution equal to 0.75% of eligible compensation.
• Annual company retreat, team off-sites, and supported team travel and in-person collaboration.
• $1,500 USD annually for professional development, with mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Company-owned laptop choice (Mac or PC), monthly home internet reimbursement, and $500 USD for home-office setup.
• Paid parental leave top-ups: 20 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents.
• Flexible work arrangements and a corporate co-working program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed