Staff Product Designer, UI focused

Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal founder of AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). The company has raised $570M in Series E venture funding is valued at $5.5B and backed by top investors including Goldman Sachs Menlo Ventures IVP Google Ventures J.P. Morgan Capital One Ventures Citi Ventures ServiceNow Splunk Ventures and more. Harness is building the industrys leading AI-powered software delivery platform enabling teams worldwide to build test and deliver software faster safer and more reliably. Writing code is only 3040% of the engineering lifecycle the rest involves testing deployments security compliance and optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this outer loop turning complex time-consuming workflows into streamlined processes at massive global scale.

The platform includes industry leading products inCI/CD Feature Flags Cloud Cost Management Service Reliability Chaos Engineering Software Engineering Insights Internal Developer Experience and API discovery observability governance and runtime protection. Over the past year Harness powered 128M deployments 81M builds 1.2T API calls protected and $1.9B in cloud spend optimized helping customers like United Airlines and Choice Hotels accelerate releases by up to 75% and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency. With employees in over 25 countries Harness is shaping the future of AI-driven software delivery and were looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.

At Harness design quality and innovation matters. Were looking for a UI-focused Product Designer who sets a high bar for visual excellence polish and consistency across complex product surfaces. This role is for designers who care deeply about craft designers who sweat the details elevate interaction quality and turn sophisticated technical workflows into clear confident and beautiful product experiences.

Youll help define the future of Harness developer-facing products by shaping how our platform looks feels and behaves at scale. You are opinionated design-driven and skilled at transforming complexity into clarity. Youve shipped enterprise software before understand the rigor required for large systems and know how to maintain visual quality across multiple releases.

While this role partners closely with UX Product and Engineering the center of gravity is UI design: layout hierarchy interaction patterns design systems motion and the overall level of polish that signals trust to enterprise customers

UI & UX Excellence

• Own the presentation layer and interaction quality of major product areas ensuring a high bar for polish consistency and usability.
• Design refined scalable UI patterns for complex workflows in CI/CD cloud and developer tooling environments.
• Push visual clarity and cohesion across the platform through strong layout typography spacing color and interaction design.
• Partner closely with Design Systems to evolve components patterns and tokens that raise the quality bar across Harness.

Product Design & Collaboration

• Drive design work from concept through execution collaborating with Product Management and Engineering to ship high-quality experiences.
• Translate product requirements and technical constraints into intuitive elegant interfaces.
• Serve as a design partner to engineering teams during implementation ensuring fidelity and quality in shipped UI.
• Provide thoughtful critique and raise the visual design bar across the broader design team.

Customer Impact & Iteration

• Ground UI and interaction decisions in customer needs usability feedback and real-world product usage.
• Evaluate existing experiences and proactively identify opportunities to improve clarity efficiency and aesthetic quality.
• Own outcomes post-launch by measuring impact gathering feedback and continuously refining visual and interaction details.

• 5 years of hands-on product design experience including meaningful experience designing enterprise or developer-facing software.
• A portfolio that clearly demonstrates exceptional strong UI & interaction craft with high polish not just flows and wireframes.
• Strong expertise in:
  
  
• Visual hierarchy layout typography and interaction design
  
  
• Designing complex systems that scale across features and teams
  
  
• Experience working with or contributing to design systems and maintaining consistency across large products.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms or developer tools (e.g. AWS GCP Azure CI/CD DevOps tooling).
• Highly opinionated about quality with the judgment to balance speed and craft in a fast-moving environment.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and evolving requirements while maintaining a clear visual vision.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to influence without authority.
• Deep commitment to exquisite craftsmanship and pride in the details.
• Brings enthusiasm curiosity and positive energy to the team

Work Location

• we can hire someone in Spain France Netherlands UK Germany

Harness in the news:

• Accelerating Our Mission to Bring AI to Everything After Code
• Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation
• How Harness runs 16 startups within a startup at scale Jyoti Bansal
• Harness Research Shows AI Visibility Crisis Fueling Security Nightmare
• Harness has been named to the Inc. Power Partner list for software delivery success

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex or national origin.

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