DESIGN AT RETOOL
Retool designers make decisions that will affect millions of people, from the developers creating software to the employees who operate it every day. Instead of designing just one product, we’re effectively designing unique software products for thousands of companies across many different verticals.
This also presents a unique design challenge. Because it’s possible to build nearly anything in Retool, we don’t have absolute control over how our users experience the product. We’re constantly seeking just the right balance between convention and configuration, between technical expressiveness and conceptual simplicity.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Our website is critical to Retool’s success: it’s the first impression of Retool for millions of visitors, and a trusted companion for customers as they learn the product. As an Interactive Designer you will play a key role in designing a cohesive, beautiful experience that tells the story of the power, flexibility, and speed of Retool. Our goal is not to settle on simply maintaining a cookie-cutter SaaS website: we aspire to win the hearts and minds of developers—and set the bar for the industry in the process. You’ll work on creative challenges across our marketing site, blog, documentation, community experiences, mini-sites, and more. This position sits within our Brand Design team and reports into the Head of Brand Design.
IN THIS ROLE, YOU'LL:
- Partner with design, marketing, engineering and product to create an extraordinary web experience for retool.com—from launching new products to pioneering groundbreaking forms of web content
- Help expand and maintain a flexible design system for Retool’s web experiences
- Collaborate closely with engineers to create beautiful, rich interactive experiences that blur the line between learning about Retool and actually using the product
- Champion the brand and ensure that design is applied consistently across all aspects of the business
- Design through iteration, experimentation and learned user behaviors
- Develop patterns and define how elements on our site behave across different web surfaces at scale
- Be an active participant in design at Retool, providing thoughtful feedback across design and product teams in critiques, reviews, and more
THE SKILLSET YOU’LL BRING:
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in visual design for web
- Experience and understanding of the formal elements of graphic design—not just limited to the web—including typography, color, layout, and composition
- Passion for the web as a medium, demonstrable through a portfolio of well-crafted work on interactive sites, design systems, data visualization, or similar
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively
- Strong grasp of interface-design skills—understanding of the impact of motion, viewport sizes, etc.
- A curiosity to stay educated on the latest design technologies and techniques, tempered by a desire to establish an original, opinionated style—not follow trends.
- A track record of successfully collaborating with design, marketing, and engineering partners to translate product needs, marketing insights, and technical constraints into informed design decisions
- Ability to independently prioritize work based on project objectives and business goals, and thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment
BONUS POINTS:
- Experience animating with Rive and designing motion systems
- Front-end development experience in building responsive web applications or prototyping visual interactive concepts
- A deep understanding of programming as a means to design solutions that resonate and empower a developer audience
- Experience building and maintaining design systems for web applications
