Product Designer, Retool
Core Product
$164.6-251.9k
Low-code internal tools building software
Be an early applicant
Low-code internal tools building software
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$164.6-251.9k
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 a 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 built
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Product Designer to take ownership of a suite of established, customer-facing applications
- This surface area includes areas like the entire tooling layer for building applications, our UI components and Logic primitives, foundational systems and data structures, and performance monitoring
- This work will focus on creating consistency and integration across these product areas over time
- At Retool, we expect a lot from our designers: own the full product design life-cycle, drive key product decisions, and maintain a relentless focus on creating impactful work
- We’re constantly seeking just the right balance between convention and configuration, between technical expressiveness and conceptual simplicity
- You’ll be joining an experienced, tight-knit, and collaborative group from diverse backgrounds who love combining research, data insights, and peer feedback into a user-centered design process
- While we work very closely with our product teams, we’re intentional about preserving space for designers to learn and work alongside each other
- Own and drive design across our core desktop building experience, drag-and-drop UI building to writing queries and debugging apps
- Partner with product, engineering, success, sales, and marketing to increase consistency and integration
- Experimenting to drive adoption of features or ways of application building, making it easier to grok the core concepts of Retool so customers can quickly get up and running
- 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
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
38% employee growth in 12 months
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
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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