[Hiring] Staff Product Designer - Agent Experience @Render

Role Description

We're hiring a Staff Product Designer to own Agent Experience (AX) end to end — the whole programmatic surface and the whole loop:

• An agent deploys, a human reviews what happened, the agent hits an error and recovers, the human grants it exactly the access it needs.
• Your job is to design the loop as one product.

This role takes real craft across every surface an agent touches:

• CLI, API, MCP, SDKs, Blueprints and Skills, and the documentation that teaches an agent how to operate.
• Real craft in web UI, because half the loop is a human deciding whether to trust what an agent just did.

We think about agent-native design in three areas:

• The interfaces agents need to operate.
• The human ↔ agent handoff where a person supervises and trusts agent work.
• Trust, safety, and governance — how access is granted, scoped, and revoked.

This role owns all three, designing them as one coherent experience rather than three disconnected efforts.

You will:

• Design the full programmatic interface, not just the CLI.
• Design documentation as an agent-facing product.
• Close the human-operated gap in onboarding.
• Design the dashboard surfaces where agent work becomes visible to humans.
• Design agent auth and access.
• Design one model, expressed everywhere.
• Surface the agent-operable paths at moments of intent.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product design experience, ideally on developer tools, infrastructure, APIs, or another technical, credibility-driven product.
• Craft that spans GUI and non-GUI surfaces.
• You design the whole journey, not a surface at a time.
• A genuine point of view on what AI-native products mean for design.
• Comfort near code.
• The judgment to define quality where no established playbook exists.
• Clear, direct communication and cross-org influence.

Requirements

• Experience designing or shipping a CLI, SDK, API, or MCP surface used at scale.
• Experience designing agent-facing documentation, Blueprints, Skills, or other material intended to teach a model how to operate a system.
• Familiarity with OAuth, scoped tokens, or least-privilege access models.
• Hands-on experience building with coding agents or LLM-driven tooling.
• Design-engineering literacy: motion, prototyping, or front-end fluency.
• Experience evolving a developer-first product toward larger teams and enterprises.
• Writing, talks, or side projects that show your craft and point of view on developer experience.

Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
• Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
• 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage.
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.
• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
• Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders.
• Continuous learning benefits & related support.