CareerPlan

Senior Product Designer

San FranciscoFull-time$148k2026-05-26 → 2026-11-11

Core

Designing successful, meaningful developer tools and complex SaaS products that help developers deliver applications faster, leveraging AI to accelerate design and delivery.

Role type

Senior Product Designer (Developer Tools / SaaS)

Builds

Developer tools, CI/CD platforms, and complex technical products for engineering teams.

Domain

Developer tools, DevOps, CI/CD, SaaS.

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

SaaS design for technical/developer products, AI-assisted design and prototyping, translating complex technical flows into simple experiences, user research and data analysis, information architecture, Lean UX methodologies, visual hierarchy and layout, design rationale communication.

Preferred skills

CI/CD or DevOps domain experience, designing for developer channels (API docs, IDE extensions, CLI).

Technologies

AI design tools (Claude Code, Cursor), design prototyping tools.

Responsibilities

Craft meaningful products for developers, explain design processes, validate decisions via data and user testing, mentor junior designers, collaborate with engineering to build designs, advocate for design decisions using research and critical thinking.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities.