About the Role
- As an IC4+ Product Designer, you will be embedded in product squads tackling real challenges, such as designing productivity features and evolving Design Systems across platforms.
- The role involves helping products become the tool of choice for individuals and teams and using AI tools to prototype and explore ideas.
- You will work within a small, multidisciplinary Design team that shapes the end-to-end experience across the product suite, including Todoist, Automations, and a Communications app.
- The team works across every platform, including iOS, Android, Web, and Desktop.
- You will operate in cross-functional squads, working closely with product, engineering, and marketing.
- Doist is a fully remote, async-first team where strong written communication and independent work are essential.
What You'll Be Doing
- Designing intuitive, beautiful, and consistent experiences across iOS, Android, Web, and Desktop.
- Collaborating with engineers, product managers, and marketers within cross-functional squads.
- Contributing to and maintaining the shared Design System and component library.
- Using data, user insights, and direct user conversations to validate and improve design decisions.
- Using tools like Claude, Cursor, and similar AI tools to prototype, write code, and ship, actively closing the gap between design intent and working product.
- Finding new ways to improve how design and development collaborate through tooling and process.
- Helping define and evolve the product vision alongside the broader design team.
- Staying ahead of platform guidelines (iOS HIG, Material Design, Web standards) to bring the best of each platform to the products.
What You'll Bring
A portfolio showing strong visual design and UX thinking, with multi-platform work (mobile + web).
Experience shipping real product features, not just concepts.
Comfort working across platform guidelines (iOS, Android, Web) and knowing when to follow them vs. when to break them intentionally.
Experience working with and contributing to Design Systems or component libraries.
Using AI tools like Claude and/or Cursor to prototype ideas, write and ship code, and move faster from concept to working product.
Ability to communicate design decisions clearly in writing, in critique, and in collaboration with engineers.
Excellent communication skills, both visual and written.
Alignment with Doist’s mission, vision, and values.
Experience working in a remote, async-first environment or the willingness to adapt to this working style.
Genuine curiosity about design, technology, people, and the world.
Strong written communication skills to maintain decisions and momentum in an async-first environment.
Ability to take ownership, move projects forward with minimal direction, flag blockers early, and know when to ask for input.* Experience running lightweight research, interpreting usage data, and letting evidence shape decisions.
Ability to give and receive feedback regularly and make others' work better.
A commitment to quality that separates a good product from a great one.
Nice to Have
Familiarity with motion/animation as a design tool (e.g. micro-interactions, transitions), not just polish.
Compensation & Benefits
- Remote work and mostly async operations.
- Flexible scheduling; employees are encouraged to work 8-hour days and no more than 40 hours/week.
- Formula-based salaries calculated based on industry-benchmarked skills and geographical location.
- Recurring budget for continuing education, including attending conferences, taking courses, and purchasing books.
- Team- and company-wide retreats.
- Monthly stipend for coworking spaces.
- Monthly budget for services that help with work, such as home internet, work apps, and music subscriptions.
- Recurring budget for work-related hardware.
- 8 weeks (40 days) of vacation per year.
- 5 weeks of paid parental leave in addition to 13 weeks of paid pregnancy-related medical leave.
- Monthly budget for health and wellness, including gym memberships, healthy snacks, massages, and health insurance.
Interview Process
- Application screening.
- Salary transparency and Value-alignment interview with the Frontend Engineering Lead, where the salary range of your location is shared up front.
- Role-alignment panel interview with the Product Design Lead.
- Paid Task Assignment.
- Culture-contribution interview with the CEO.
- Reference and background checks.
About Doist
- Mission is to empower people with simple yet powerful tools.
- Multidisciplinary, fully-remote team that creates products, like Todoist and Twist, to improve people's lives.
- Core Values:
- Ambition: Setting high standards and solving high-impact issues.
- Mastery: Deep care for the quality of work and maintaining a balance between intense work and complete disconnection.
- Independence: Proactive ownership, accountability, and reliability.
- Communication: Clear, concise, engaging, and respectful interactions.