Runpod is the AI Developer Cloud, supporting over a million developers in building and scaling AI solutions. They are seeking a Senior Product Designer to define the next generation of their product experience by transforming complex technical workflows into intuitive user experiences.
Responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end design for core areas of Runpod’s AI infrastructure platform, from discovery through launch and iteration
- Turn complex workflows across compute, deployment, storage, networking, billing, observability, and AI model operations into intuitive user experiences
- Move quickly from ambiguity to action: identify UX problems, frame tradeoffs, propose solutions, and drive decisions
- Partner closely with Engineering and Product to shape direction, define requirements, and ship high-quality experiences
- Create polished flows, prototypes, high-fidelity designs, interaction patterns, and production-ready specs. Define and design systems to enable continuous design-to-code workflows
- Raise the craft bar through strong information architecture, visual design, interaction design, UX writing, accessibility, and edge-case thinking
- Use customer conversations, usability testing, analytics, and support feedback to find friction and improve the experience
- Contribute to Runpod’s design system so the product becomes more consistent, scalable, and distinctive
- Create moments of delight through thoughtful defaults, clear feedback, elegant interactions, and details that make the product feel carefully built
Requirements:
- 6+ years of product design experience, ideally with developer tools, cloud platforms, infrastructure products, AI/ML tools, enterprise software, data products, or technical SaaS
- A strong portfolio showing excellent UX thinking, visual craft, interaction design, systems thinking, and the ability to simplify complex products
- High urgency and ownership, with a track record of driving design work forward in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
- Strong product judgment and the ability to balance user needs, technical constraints, speed, quality, and business impact
- Excellent visual and interaction design skills, with sharp attention to hierarchy, layout, typography, spacing, states, flows, and microinteractions
- Experience working closely with engineers and product managers to ship technically complex products
- Ability to understand workflows involving APIs, infrastructure, cloud platforms, deployment, observability, usage-based pricing, or AI/ML systems
- Experience using qualitative and quantitative insights to guide design decisions
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain design rationale clearly and build alignment across teams
- Deep care for craft, quality, and the small details that make software feel great
- Experience designing for developers, AI engineers, infrastructure teams, data scientists, or technical enterprise users
- Experience in AI, ML, cloud compute, DevOps, observability, data infrastructure, or usage-based SaaS
- Experience with onboarding, activation, dashboards, billing, deployment workflows, or complex configuration experiences
- Experience with front-end implementation, design engineering, or prototyping in code