Eleanor Mendez

Dear Marcus,

I've been quietly admiring Linear for years — long before I was a customer, when I'd see the changelog land in my feeds and read it the way other people read magazines. The taste, the restraint, the unwillingness to ship the obvious version. It's the standard I hold my own work to.

I'm writing because I'd like to design at Linear. Specifically, the role on the Insights team. After nine years across Stripe, Notion, and indie work, I'm at the point where I want to do my best work in a small, opinionated room — and Linear is the room I keep coming back to.

What I'd bring: end-to-end ownership of complex product surfaces (onboarding at Stripe, Databases at Notion), comfort working in code, and a strong opinion that the right answer is usually fewer features, better. I'd be glad to walk through specific work in person.

Either way — thank you for the bar Linear sets. I appreciate it.

Best,
Eleanor Mendez

Eleanor Mendez

Dear Marcus,

I've been quietly admiring Linear for years — long before I was a customer, when I'd see the changelog land in my feeds and read it the way other people read magazines. The taste, the restraint, the unwillingness to ship the obvious version. It's the standard I hold my own work to.

I'm writing because I'd like to design at Linear. Specifically, the role on the Insights team. After nine years across Stripe, Notion, and indie work, I'm at the point where I want to do my best work in a small, opinionated room — and Linear is the room I keep coming back to.

What I'd bring: end-to-end ownership of complex product surfaces (onboarding at Stripe, Databases at Notion), comfort working in code, and a strong opinion that the right answer is usually fewer features, better. I'd be glad to walk through specific work in person.

Either way — thank you for the bar Linear sets. I appreciate it.

Best,
Eleanor Mendez

Dear Marcus,

I've been quietly admiring Linear for years — long before I was a customer, when I'd see the changelog land in my feeds and read it the way other people read magazines. The taste, the restraint, the unwillingness to ship the obvious version. It's the standard I hold my own work to.

I'm writing because I'd like to design at Linear. Specifically, the role on the Insights team. After nine years across Stripe, Notion, and indie work, I'm at the point where I want to do my best work in a small, opinionated room — and Linear is the room I keep coming back to.

What I'd bring: end-to-end ownership of complex product surfaces (onboarding at Stripe, Databases at Notion), comfort working in code, and a strong opinion that the right answer is usually fewer features, better. I'd be glad to walk through specific work in person.

Either way — thank you for the bar Linear sets. I appreciate it.

Best,

Eleanor Mendez

Eleanor Mendez

Dear Marcus,

I've been quietly admiring Linear for years — long before I was a customer, when I'd see the changelog land in my feeds and read it the way other people read magazines. The taste, the restraint, the unwillingness to ship the obvious version. It's the standard I hold my own work to.

I'm writing because I'd like to design at Linear. Specifically, the role on the Insights team. After nine years across Stripe, Notion, and indie work, I'm at the point where I want to do my best work in a small, opinionated room — and Linear is the room I keep coming back to.

What I'd bring: end-to-end ownership of complex product surfaces (onboarding at Stripe, Databases at Notion), comfort working in code, and a strong opinion that the right answer is usually fewer features, better. I'd be glad to walk through specific work in person.

Either way — thank you for the bar Linear sets. I appreciate it.

Best,
Eleanor Mendez