Product Designer

Fluidstack•Austin, TX

1d•$150,000 - $250,000

About The Position

Fluidstack is seeking a Product Designer to take ownership of the end-to-end design of both internal and external products. This is a hands-on individual contributor role where you will be embedded with product and engineering teams. You will be responsible for shaping the interfaces used by GPU cluster operators, AI platform engineers, and enterprise infrastructure teams. The products are deeply technical, and the users are power users (engineers and operators) who value efficiency and have no tolerance for time-wasting UX. Designing for this audience requires fluency in developer tools, infrastructure dashboards, and complex, data-dense interfaces. You will collaborate directly with Product Managers, engineers, and customers, owning design from concept to shipment. A strong visual sensibility is crucial, and you should be able to articulate and defend design decisions.

Requirements

5+ years of product design experience, with a portfolio demonstrating shipped work on complex, data-dense, or developer-facing products.
Demonstrated history of designing developer tools, infrastructure UIs, API management consoles, observability dashboards, or other technically complex interfaces.
Fluency with modern design tooling (Figma required) and the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive prototypes.
Expert-level CSS: you write it from scratch, debug it in production, and deeply understand the cascade, specificity, and layout models (Flexbox, Grid) at a mechanical level.
Strong front-end web proficiency: HTML, component-based frameworks (React or equivalent), and a working understanding of how browsers render and how design decisions affect performance.
End-to-end ownership mindset: you have personally taken designs from concept to production, not just handed off to engineering.
Strong written and verbal communication: you can explain design decisions to engineers and PMs without deck support.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing tools for physical infrastructure (construction, logistics, physical operations), cloud infrastructure (IaaS/PaaS), or AI platforms, or a deep familiarity with this user base.
Prior experience building or contributing to a design system from the ground up, including token architecture, documentation, and cross-team adoption.
Comfort working directly in code: modifying React components, prototyping in CSS, or collaborating on front-end implementation in a shared codebase.
History of sourcing and running user research with technical stakeholders: SREs, ML engineers, DevOps leads, or platform engineers.
Familiarity with the visual language of technical products: terminal aesthetics, information density, dark mode UX, monospace typography, dashboarding, and a thoughtful perspective on when to embrace vs. evolve it.

Responsibilities

Own design end-to-end across research, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, prototypes, and shipped production UI.
Design developer-facing products: cluster management dashboards, API consoles, job scheduling interfaces, resource utilization views, and alerting and observability surfaces.
Write and maintain production-quality CSS and front-end markup in close collaboration with engineering, ensuring that what ships matches what was designed.
Build and maintain a coherent design system: components and interaction patterns that scale across a growing product surface area.
Conduct lightweight user research with technical audiences: structured interviews, usability sessions, and synthesis of feedback from customer interactions and support escalations.
Work directly with PMs to translate product requirements into interaction models, and with engineers to translate designs into implementation-ready specs.
Bring a strong visual point of view: typography, color, hierarchy, motion, and defend it. We want someone who can articulate why a design is right, not just present options.
Raise the overall design quality bar across the organization through your work, your feedback, and your taste.