Senior Product Designer

vCluster Labs provides infrastructure platforms for AI cloud builders and Kubernetes-based environments. The Senior Product Designer will design polished interfaces for the vCluster Platform, partner closely with frontend and backend engineers, conduct user and competitive research, align stakeholders on design direction, and maintain brand consistency.

Responsibilities:

• Product & UI Design: Design and deliver polished UI for the vCluster Platform, from early concept through pixel-perfect execution
• Engineering Partnership: Work day-to-day with frontend engineers to scope and execute product design work, and stay close enough to backend engineering to understand what's technically feasible
• Research & Discovery: Research technical requirements and proposed solutions, through UX studies, competitive research, and other methods, to understand their impact on the user experience
• Stakeholder Alignment: Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to translate ambiguous requirements into a clear design direction
• Brand Consistency: Work with Brand Designers to keep product visuals aligned with vCluster Labs' brand identity

Requirements:

• • B2B product design experience: 2+ years designing UI or product experiences for a B2B product, ideally one used by engineers, DevOps, or platform teams
• • Technical fluency: Ability to understand complex software engineering concepts through research, interest in the field, or personal experience
• • User-centric approach: Design with a clear focus on our particular users, understanding them and their specific needs
• • Good visual design sense: Can design user interfaces that are clear, aesthetically pleasing, and aligned with modern UI patterns
• • Willingness to learn: The subject matter here is highly technical and will require learning, reading technical documentation, and independent experimentation
• • Strong communication: You can structure a clear presentation, defend your design decisions to stakeholders, and question assumptions when it leads to a better solution
• • Cloud-ecosystem experience: You've designed for a cloud provider, DevOps tool, Kubernetes, or another engineer-facing infrastructure product
• • Startup Experience: You have been at an early-stage organization where you function autonomously and strive towards building something great