[Hiring] Senior Product Designer @Runpod

Role Description

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to help define the next generation of Runpod’s product experience. This role is for a designer with exceptional craft, strong product judgment, deep user empathy, and the ability to turn complex technical workflows into experiences that feel simple, powerful, and delightful.

This is not a passive design role. We are looking for someone who:

• Moves with urgency
• Pursues clarity
• Drives decisions
• Raises the bar without waiting to be told what to do

You will own the design quality of core product surfaces across Runpod’s AI infrastructure platform. You will work closely with:

• Engineering
• Product
• Infrastructure
• Customer Success
• Sales
• Marketing
• Company leadership

Success in this role means raising the bar for how Runpod feels to use:

• Clearer workflows
• Faster time-to-value
• Stronger customer trust
• Better product polish
• Moments that surprise and delight developers

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.

Qualifications

• 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 Have

• 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.

Benefits

• The competitive base pay for this position ranges from ($125,000 - $220,000).
• Meaningful equity in a fast-growing company — everyone on the team receives stock options.
• Generous medical, dental & vision plans.
• Flexible PTO — take the time you need to recharge.
• Most roles are remote work first with an inclusive, collaborative teams utilizing Slack as the main form of internal communication.
• $1,200 Home Office & Equipment Stipend — we set you up for success from day one with gear and support to create your ideal workspace.