Role Overview
RunPod is seeking a Senior Product Designer to help shape the next generation of its AI developer cloud platform. This remote role is tailored for a designer with exceptional craft and strong product judgment who can simplify complex technical workflows for millions of developers.
Key Responsibilities
Manage end-to-end design for core areas of the AI infrastructure platform, taking projects from initial discovery through launch and ongoing iteration.
Transform intricate workflows spanning compute, networking, storage, billing, deployment, observability, and AI model operations into intuitive user interfaces.
Transition quickly from ambiguous problems to actionable solutions by framing tradeoffs, identifying UX issues, and driving key decisions.
Collaborate closely with product management and engineering teams to shape product direction, define requirements, and deliver high-quality experiences.
Produce polished user flows, high-fidelity designs, interactive prototypes, and production-ready specifications to support seamless design-to-code workflows.
Elevate product craft through strong information architecture, visual design, interaction design, UX writing, accessibility, and edge-case management.
Leverage usability testing, customer feedback, analytics, and support data to identify friction points and optimize the user journey.
Build upon the company design system to ensure the overall product remains scalable, cohesive, and visually distinctive.
Introduce thoughtful defaults, clear feedback, and elegant microinteractions that surprise and delight technical users.
Requirements
Bring six or more years of product design experience, preferably focused on cloud platforms, developer tools, infrastructure, AI/ML tools, data products, or technical SaaS.
Provide a strong portfolio demonstrating superior UX thinking, visual design craft, systems thinking, and the simplification of complex products.
Demonstrate high urgency, strong personal ownership, and a proven history of advancing design initiatives in fast-paced settings.
Possess sound product judgment to balance technical constraints, business impact, user requirements, speed, and quality.
Exhibit advanced visual and interaction design skills with precise attention to layout, typography, spacing, hierarchy, and states.
Show experience working alongside product managers and engineers to launch technically challenging products.
Understand complex workflows related to APIs, cloud infrastructure, deployments, usage-based pricing, and AI/ML architectures.
Utilize quantitative and qualitative insights to inform and guide design choices.
Maintain strong communication skills to articulate design rationale and foster team alignment.
Nice to Have
Previous background designing software for developers, infrastructure teams, data scientists, AI engineers, or technical enterprise users.
Familiarity with domains such as cloud compute, machine learning, DevOps, data infrastructure, or usage-based software models.
Experience working on onboarding flows, analytics dashboards, billing mechanisms, configuration systems, or deployment pipelines.
Practical knowledge of front-end implementation, design engineering, or prototyping directly in code.
Skills and Tools
Product design
Visual and interaction design
Information architecture
Prototyping
UX writing and accessibility
Design systems
User research and usability testing
Collaboration with engineering and product teams
Salary and Benefits
Competitive annual base salary ranging from $125,000 to $220,000, determined by experience, qualifications, and location.
Meaningful equity in the form of stock options for all team members.
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance plans.
Flexible paid time off policy to encourage recharging.
Remote-first work culture utilizing modern communication tools like Slack.
A $1,200 home office and equipment stipend provided upon starting.
About the Company
RunPod operates as an AI Developer Cloud utilized by over one million developers, ranging from independent researchers to enterprise teams running frontier models. The platform has successfully processed over 20 billion inference requests and is scaling rapidly following a Series A funding round. The organization champions a remote-first, collaborative environment where ownership, urgency, and continuous learning drive growth.
How to Apply
Interested candidates should apply directly on the official RunPod careers page to submit their application and portfolio.
