Product Designer, Retool
Low-code internal tools building software
Open for applications
Low-code internal tools building software
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
Retool's mission is to create the future of internal software by making software development for engineers simpler and more accessible.
Role
Who you are
- Have a strong portfolio demonstrating generalist design skills and 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 comfortable with basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.(Bonus points if you have some working knowledge of SQL, databases, or APIs!)
- 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 developed
What the job involves
- Own and drive the complete product design lifecycle of major features for Retool
- Partner with growth, support, success, sales, and marketing to understand business objectives and uncover customer insights
- Perform user research to identify problems and validate solutions
- Partner closely with engineers to define product objectives, understand technical constraints, and ideate on 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 your work regularly with cross-functional team and company leadership
- Contribute to Retool’s design system and component library
- Help establish design team processes and uphold high standards for design and product quality at Retool
- Adoption—Accelerate the adoption of Retool by shortening time-to-value, inspiring new customers, and encouraging network effects
- App experience—Design the core desktop building experience for Retool, from drag-and-drop UI building to writing queries and debugging apps
- Design systems—Design the system that defines Retool and our customers’ apps
- Developer toolchain—Connect and improve on the traditional software development stack of environments, source control, documentation, testing, and release management
- Hub—Help our largest customers scale with Retool as a unified, integrated platform, from permissions management to observability and product analytics
- Grid—Empower customers to immediately visualize their own databases and create new databases within Retool to power their apps
- Mobile—Extend desktop Retool to support mobile-first workforces that rely on native mobile capabilities
- Workflows—Enable customers to build and execute human-in-the-loop business processes that bring together backend automation with Retool’s frontend UI
Our take
Retool allows developers to build internal applications quickly using a complete set of ready-made building blocks. These internal applications can be used to display company data from a range of sources, including Redis, Salesforce, Google Cloud, and Slack.
For a monthly fee, the platform enables companies to save time that they would have otherwise spent on developing their own internal applications. Retool brands itself as 'low-code,' meaning that it is easy to use and customize. There is a huge demand for systems that allow teams to analyze the data they already have. Retool already counts brands such as Amazon, Philips, Peloton, NBC, and Mercedes-Benz as customers.
Retool was founded in 2017, and the company is now valued at over $1 billion. Founded by Oxford graduate David Hsu, the management team includes ex-Stripe and ex-Airbnb employees with plenty of experience in taking a company from a start-up to a global brand. Retool was awarded $45 million in Series C in 2022, which it is using to expand its workforce, tweak its platform, and develop new products.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2022
$45m
SERIES C
Dec 2021
$20m
SERIES C
Total funding: $165.2m
Company benefits
- Competitive healthcare, dental and vision benefits
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner at our San Francisco and New York offices
- $1,200 annual stipend for anything learning-related (books, conferences, classes, etc.)
- $1,000 work-from-home-setup stipend
- Flexible PTO
- Family planning support and paid parental leave
- 401(k) Matching
- Mental health and wellness benefits
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
David Hsu
(CEO)David studied Philosophy and Computer Science at the University of Oxford, before founding Retool in 2017. He has served as CEO ever since.
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