Senior Product Designer

Runpod

7d•$125,000 - $220,000•Remote

About The Position

Runpod is seeking a Senior Product Designer to shape the future of its AI Developer Cloud platform. This role requires a designer with exceptional craft, strong product judgment, deep user empathy, and the ability to simplify complex technical workflows into intuitive and delightful user experiences. The ideal candidate is proactive, drives decisions, and can transform ambiguous problems into clear product solutions. This position involves owning the design quality of core product surfaces, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams including Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Customer Success, Sales, Marketing, and leadership to create memorable user experiences. Success will be measured by improvements in workflow clarity, time-to-value, customer trust, product polish, and moments of delight for developers.

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

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.