Product Designer
About Slate
Slate is the workspace for modern product teams. We bring planning, documentation, and delivery into one calm place, with an intelligence layer called Atlas that understands the full state of your work and surfaces what matters before you ask. Teams use Slate to think, write, and ship together without the work scattering across a dozen tools.
About the Role
We're looking for a Product Designer to shape how Slate looks, feels, and works. This is a role for someone who designs with real depth, from the first idea down to the last interaction, and who cares about the calm, considered quality that defines the product. You'll own features end to end, working through the hard interaction problems that come with collaborative, real time software.
You'll work closely with engineering and product in an async, globally distributed team, with regular time alongside the team from our hub in Europe. We trust you to take a problem, explore the right direction, and see it through to something shipped.
What you'll be responsible for
Design features across the Slate product, from early concepts and flows through to polished, production ready interfaces.
Own the interaction and visual detail of the work you touch, including the harder problems that come with real time collaboration.
Partner with engineering to make sure what ships matches the intent, contributing to the build rather than handing off and walking away.
Contribute to and evolve the design system that keeps Slate consistent and calm as the product grows.
Help shape the product direction, bringing your own point of view on what's worth building and why.
Raise the quality bar for craft across the product, paying attention to the small decisions that add up to how Slate feels.
You might be a good fit if you
Have several years of experience designing digital products, with a portfolio that shows depth, craft, and shipped work.
Are strong across both interaction and visual design, and you care about typography, layout, and the details.
Are comfortable owning ambiguous problems, identifying what matters, communicating your thinking, and getting to a result.
Have designed complex, collaborative, or data heavy products, or are excited to take on the problems they involve.
Use AI tools in your daily work to explore, prototype, and move faster.
Are happy working async and independently in a distributed team, and you communicate clearly in writing.
Move fast without sacrificing craft, and you know when good enough is good enough.
What we offer
Fully Remote: We hire globally and believe you can do your best work from anywhere. There are no Slate offices, but we provide a co-working allowance you can use wherever you are in the world.
Equity: Every team member receives equity in Slate. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we're building together.
Tech Allowance: A budget to set up your ideal work environment, whether that's a new laptop, a monitor, or whatever helps you do your best work.
Health Benefits: We cover 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are. Your wellbeing and your family's health matter to us.
Annual Off-Sites: Once a year the whole company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and time together away from the screen.
Flexible Work: We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time. You know what needs to be done and when.
Professional Development: An annual education allowance to spend on learning, whether that's courses, books, or conferences that support your growth.
About the Team
Slate is remote first and built by a small team that cares deeply about craft. We move fast, we build in public, and we use what we ship every day.
40+ team members
20+ countries
A product used by fast moving teams around the world
We believe a globally distributed team is a strength, not a constraint. We keep the group small, the bar high, and the work calm.
Hiring process
We keep things simple, async friendly, and respectful of your time.
Apply: Our team reviews your application.
Intro Call: A short video chat to get to know each other.
Interviews: Up to four conversations with team leads, future teammates, someone cross functional from product or design, and someone from our founding team.
Decision: We may follow up with a final question, or go straight to an offer.
All communication is remote, and we aim to move quickly.
