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title: 'Design Engineer (Web & Brand) at Linear'
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# Design Engineer (Web & Brand) at Linear

- **Company:** Linear
- **Location:** North, United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/linear/f04f398b-6320-499d-8a60-290239d62da8

## Job description

At Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents. AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we’re shaping the tools this new era requires. Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 40,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, and we’re continuing to grow internationally. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship. We're looking for a Design Engineer with strong visual taste to help drive our creative initiatives across web and brand. When it comes to design and code, we’re looking to work with experienced people who can pick up any problem and solve it. For us, it’s both how it works and how it looks. At its core, Linear is a developer tool where speed, interactions, and small details matter. We expect a broad set of design skills and the ability to create high-quality designs, interactions, and prototypes. In this role, you will help communicate Linear's story—what we're building and why it matters—as part of our internal creative agency: the Magic Team.

## What you'll do

- You will be responsible for building complex and interactive UI web/app experiences
- Build beautiful, responsive websites, landing pages, and internal tools
- Implement creative animations and interactions in code
- Explore visual design in Figma and translate it to web-native experiences

## What we're looking for

- Eye for good design
- Strong frontend engineering skills
- Experience building end-to-end websites and landing pages
- Experience with React and TypeScript
- Experience using agentic coding tools as part of the design process (from exploring ideas to building production-quality interactions)
- A portfolio or Twitter profile showcasing a range of technical skills, a creative use of code, and prototyping skills

## What we offer

- Interesting and challenging work
- Work life balance
- Competitive salary and equity
- Employee-friendly equity terms (extended exercise)
- Paid lunch and coffee during work days
- Work remotely, no commuting to the office
- Paid co-working space/desk at an office
- Regular team events and offsites
- 5 weeks paid vacation
- 4 months paid parental leave

Learn how we think and work

- [Part I](https://linear.app/blog/a-design-reset) and [Part II](https://linear.app/blog/how-we-redesigned-the-linear-ui) of how we redesigned the Linear UI
- [Read me](https://linear.app/readme) a story about our mission
- [Why and how we do work trials](https://linear.app/blog/why-and-how-we-do-work-trials-at-linear) Linear blog post
- [How we use AI in design](https://designerfund.substack.com/p/ai-design-linear) feature of Linear's design team
- [Crafting quality that endures](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCil7YNhNCU) Config keynote by our Co-founder & CEO, Karri Saarinen
- [Building for quality: Our Investment in Linear](https://accel.com/noteworthy/our-investment-in-linear) Accel Series B blog post

## About Linear

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Linear builds a purpose-built product development system for modern teams and AI agents to plan, build, and ship software with high speed and quality.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Fully remote, team distributed across North America and Europe (no single physical HQ)
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Karri Saarinen (CEO) and Tuomas Artman (CTO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Software development tools / Product management / AI-assisted development
- Target customers: B2B – product teams of all sizes from ambitious startups to major enterprises (over 33,000 teams, including OpenAI, Coinbase, Ramp)
- Mission: “To inspire and accelerate builders” – operates on principles like ship early, build with users, keep the team small, and create fans.

## Products & Services
- **Linear Platform**: The core SaaS product – an issue tracker, project management, and product planning tool. Features include AI-powered agents (Linear Agent) for autonomous issue routing and coding, Linear Diffs for structured code review, roadmaps, PRDs, analytics, and team documents. Designed to reduce noise and restore momentum for teams shipping with high velocity.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available – “Linear is small and profitable, and we intend to keep it that way.”
- **Key Metric**: Profitable; powers over 33,000 product teams (as of mid-2026).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by Accel (Miles Clements, partner) and Sequoia (Stephanie Zhan, partner). Angel investors include Dylan Field (Figma CEO), Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO), Stewart Butterfield (ex-Slack CEO), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel CEO), and many others from Y Combinator, design, and technology leadership.
- **Growth Signals**: Continued hiring across engineering, sales, customer success, design, and operations; expanding AI capabilities (Linear Agent, MCP support); remains profitably small by design.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Quality obsession**: Linear emphasizes craft, attention to detail, and building things that last – a “lost art” they aim to restore.
- **Fully remote, small-team autonomy**: No OKRs or A/B tests; decisions come from taste, customer insight, and direct judgment.
- **AI-native architecture**: Purpose-built for workflows shared by humans and agents, with early integration of code intelligence and agent-assisted development.
- **Selective hiring culture**: Paid work trials ensure mutual fit; focus on slope (growth) over credentials.
- **Strong community of fans**: “Build a community of people who use, love, and defend the product.”

## Strategic Focus
- Continue to evolve Linear into “a new species of product tool” for the AI era, integrating agents deeper into planning, coding, and review workflows.
- Maintain high quality and small team size while scaling customer base internationally.
- Grow go-to-market teams (account executives, solutions engineers) in North America and Europe.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first**: “Fully remote” with team distributed across North America and Europe – no central office, minimal process overhead.
- **Autonomy & ownership**: Small teams with clear ownership; individuals shape direction, talk to users, and own problems end-to-end.
- **Craft culture**: Engineers and designers who care deeply about quality and detail thrive here.
- **Hiring process**: Transparent, fast (4–6 weeks), paid work trials as final stage, honest feedback, and direct communication about compensation and equity.
- **Perks & vibe**: Profitable, stable, and focused on building rather than managing; “fewer meetings, less check-in points, and more autonomy than most companies offer.”

## Sources
1. [linear.app/careers](https://linear.app/careers) – Careers page with principles and open roles.
2. [linear.app](https://linear.app/) – Main product site with features, changelog, and customer count.
3. [linear.app/now/how-we-hire-at-linear](https://linear.app/now/how-we-hire-at-linear) – Detailed hiring philosophy and process.
4. [linear.app/about](https://linear.app/about) – About page with team, founding story, investors, and mission.

## Other roles at Linear

- [Design Engineer (Web & Brand)](https://feeny.ai/job/design-engineer-web-brand-linear-europe-8wsz2d1d17rj) — Europe
- [Product Support Specialist, Europe](https://feeny.ai/job/product-support-specialist-europe-linear-europe-qyh7bkwhznj7) — Europe
- [Customer Success Manager, Growth](https://feeny.ai/job/customer-success-manager-growth-linear-north-p63ndt187dpt) — North, United States
- [Technical Recruiter](https://feeny.ai/job/technical-recruiter-linear-north-mfnwatsmqdf7) — North, United States
- [Analytics Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/analytics-engineer-linear-north-86q58mhb1gth) — North, United States
- [Deal Desk](https://feeny.ai/job/deal-desk-linear-north-r2ay6b22qsn1) — North, United States
- [Revenue Operations](https://feeny.ai/job/revenue-operations-linear-north-pwtp7pehxm4p) — North, United States
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