Product Designer (Growth) - Tailscale

About Tailscale

Tailscale is making safe connection effortless by delivering software that makes it easy to securely interconnect people and their devices. We're building a future for the Internet that's easy, sensible, and safe. Founded in 2019 and fully distributed, we're backed by Accel, CRV, Insight, Heavybit, and Uncork Capital.

About the Role

The Product Design team 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, working to propel initiatives around activation, onboarding, monetization, user expansion, and the referral flywheel.

Key Responsibilities

• Draft and propose product changes to move the needle on growth initiatives.
• Participate in the experimentation lifecycle, iterating based on research and feedback.
• Contribute to a backlog of experiment ideas, addressing friction areas through interaction design and prototyping.
• Advocate for product changes that support user interests.
• Uphold a high quality standard, balancing experimentation with permanent design improvements.
• Partner with PMs, researchers, and engineers to define problems and measure impact.

What We Are Looking For

• 3-5+ years of product design experience, ideally in onboarding, growth, or monetization.
• Hands-on experience with growth tooling (A/B testing, behavioral analytics like Amplitude or Pendo).
• Experience with self-serve, product-led SaaS business motions.
• Comfort interpreting experiment results to guide design decisions.
• Ability to balance speed and quality.
• Experience working in distributed, async environments.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with networking concepts (DNS, VPNs, traffic routing).
• Experience using LLM tools within the design workflow for prototyping and testing.

What We Offer

• Competitive total compensation (base salary + equity).
• Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period.
• Remote-first culture with support for intentional in-person connection.
• $1500 USD annual professional development budget.
• $500 USD home office customization stipend + monthly internet reimbursement.
• Paid parental leave program (20 weeks for birthing parents, 16 weeks for non-birthing).