About the position
We're looking for a Product Designer to take ownership of a critical piece of Retool's product: Workflows. Retool Workflows enables customers to build and execute business processes through a combination of our backend automation and our frontend UI. Simply put-you'll design the primitives and IDE that our end-users can use to build automations, APIs, and processes within Retool. 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.
Responsibilities
- Own and drive the entire product design lifecycle for our IDE, built for purpose to allow users to create processes and workflows within Retool
- Partner with product, engineering, success, sales, and marketing to design workflow capabilities that are ruthlessly intuitive for builders and seamlessly integrated across our product suite
- 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
Requirements
- 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
