Linear

linear.app · 20 open roles in the last 6 months · hiring in 3 countries

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Linear is extending its self-serve product development system with a more deliberate enterprise go-to-market motion, especially in APAC, while investing in security as it moves upmarket.

Inferred from 25 job postings from the last year, with recent ones weighted more · updated 21 Oct 2026. Not a statement by the company.

What changed recently

The latest month concentrates on Singapore and Australia: enterprise and growth sales, solutions engineering, and customer success roles reinforce APAC as a near-term commercial focus. It also adds a Staff security engineer role focused on product and infrastructure risks, including AI- and agent-facing surfaces; the recent postings do not add a new product-building direction beyond the prior emphasis on AI and mobile.

Scalinghigh confidenceMostly new this month

Build out enterprise sales and rollout support in APAC

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Recent roles cover the enterprise sales cycle in Asia Pacific: account executives sell to larger companies, a solutions engineer handles tailored demos, integrations and migrations, and customer success supports onboarding and adoption for large customers. The postings describe a growing APAC sales presence and a product-led sales motion layered onto the existing self-serve business.

Four of the five postings from the last month are APAC commercial or customer-success roles.
The roles span sales, technical evaluation and post-sale adoption rather than adding only sales capacity.
Postings explicitly mention expansion across Asia Pacific and a growing APAC sales presence.

Scalinghigh confidence

Make enterprise implementations repeatable

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Linear is adding capacity around the work between contract close and successful enterprise use: implementation ownership, customer success, technical onboarding, workspace configuration and data migration. This complements the newer APAC customer-facing roles and points to a broader effort to support larger deployments, not just win them.

A dedicated Implementation Manager role owns rollout through go-live and the first 30 days.
Solutions engineering postings call out migrations, configurations, demos and onboarding.
Customer success roles target enterprise, large and mid-market accounts.

Scalinglow confidence

Improve mobile workflows and product usability

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A recent Mobile Product Designer role covers both iOS and Android, adapting desktop capabilities to mobile and refining screens, flows and smaller quality issues. Earlier design and developer-relations postings also mention mobile workflows, but the latest evidence is a single design role rather than a larger mobile team expansion.

A mobile-specific product design role appeared within the last three months.
The remit includes both iOS and Android and focuses on feature adaptation as well as usability refinements.
Earlier postings pair mobile workflows with Linear’s AI agent, but do not establish a larger dedicated mobile hiring push.

Sustainingmedium confidenceNo roles in 3 months

Add AI capabilities to Linear’s core product

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Product engineering roles describe adding AI-powered functionality to Linear’s core system for teams and agents, alongside a collaborative editor and performance work. The engineering details include a production-scale agentic workflow system using Temporal and a proprietary websocket sync engine built for speed and offline support; the signal is real but most of the explicit AI engineering evidence is older than the latest hiring burst.

Two product engineering roles explicitly call for AI-powered core functionality.
Developer Relations roles focus on explaining the AI agent through technical content and real-world demos.
Most direct AI product-building evidence falls outside the last three months.

Scalinglow confidence

Harden product and infrastructure security for enterprise and AI surfaces

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A recent Staff Security Engineer role focuses on vulnerability reduction across the product, infrastructure and dependencies, incident response, and stronger security practices. The posting specifically calls out enterprise growth and AI- and agent-facing product surfaces, making this a focused senior-level investment rather than a broad cluster of security hires.

The role is Staff-level and spans product security, infrastructure security and incident response.
The posting connects the work to enterprise scaling and AI/agent-facing surfaces.
The posting describes an existing foundational security program that needs to strengthen as the product grows.

Senior / Staff Security EngineerStaff

Where they are expanding

Singapore and Australia — The newest postings cluster in Singapore and Australia across enterprise and growth sales, solutions engineering and customer success. The roles explicitly refer to a growing APAC sales presence and expansion across Asia Pacific.

Questions to ask in a coffee chat

How do the APAC sales, solutions engineering and customer-success teams divide responsibility from first evaluation through customer adoption?
What parts of an enterprise rollout are hardest to make repeatable today, especially around migrations, workspace configuration and the first month after go-live?
How is the security team adapting its work for AI- and agent-facing product surfaces, and how does it partner with product engineering?
For the AI capabilities in the core product, how are product and engineering teams deciding which workflows to build for teams and agents?
How does the mobile team decide which desktop workflows to adapt for iOS and Android versus redesigning specifically for mobile?

What this can't tell you

Job postings reveal intended areas of work, not the amount of engineering or commercial effort already underway or the outcomes achieved.
The APAC postings identify Singapore and Australia as role locations, but do not show how customers or responsibilities are divided across the region.
AI, mobile and security evidence is narrower than the enterprise go-to-market signal, and hiring alone cannot establish the scope or priority of each product effort.