Product Designer, Resources

Retool is hiring a Product Designer to shape the experiences that allow builders to quickly plug into databases, APIs, and event streams without friction.

Responsibilities

• Design intuitive flows for connecting and configuring data sources, from common integrations to niche systems
• Balance technical depth with simplicity—making advanced concepts like event streams or query orchestration approachable for any builder
• Translate complex customer problems into elegant UI solutions
• Create consistency and clarity across 60+ integrations, ensuring data interactions feel native to Retool
• 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 at least 5+ years of 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 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

Key Skills

• Generalist design skills
• Experience driving the product design lifecycle from end-to-end
• Experience breaking down technically complex problems into abstractions
• Experience thinking systematically about hard problems with a lot of tradeoffs
• Experience translating complex customer problems into elegant UI solutions
• Experience creating consistency and clarity across multiple integrations
• Experience performing user research
• Experience producing design artifacts
• Experience participating in design reviews
• Experience contributing to design systems and component libraries
• Experience establishing design team processes
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity
• Ability to independently prioritize work
• Ability to drive product ideas forward
• Inspiration to radically rethink how software is built

Benefits

• Retool provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)