Senior Product Designer

Runpod is the AI Developer Cloud, serving over one million developers who utilize their platform for various AI-related tasks. They are seeking a Senior Product Designer to enhance the product experience by transforming complex workflows into intuitive user experiences and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality designs.

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