Senior Product Designer
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Job Location:
Austin, TX - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
5 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Who is Sonar
Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production amplifies developers productivity in concert with AI assistants and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code regardless of who writes it your internal team genAI or third parties resulting in more secure reliable and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community Sonars solutions support over 30 programming languages frameworks and infrastructure technologies. Today Sonar is used by 7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide including the DoD Microsoft NASA MasterCard Siemens and T-Mobile.
We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture. We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company users each other and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity dedication thoughtfulness empathy and passion daily.
We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly.
And lastly we are highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.
At Sonar CODE is more than just an acronym its a mindset that defines daily operations.
Why You Should Apply:
At Sonar were a group of brilliant motivated and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they dont. Our solutions dont just solve symptoms of problems we help fix issues at the source for all code whether its developer-written AI-generated or from third parties.
We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA Switzerland the UK Singapore and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day work on a product they are proud of love what they do and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community were all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better faster.
The Impact You Will Have:
Sonar is looking for a passionate product design generalist to join our Product Design team which owns the experience for our robust platform of code quality and security products. You will belong to the Code Security product area where youll help ensure that our developer and agent users write more secure code and have a seamless experience in the product.
You will work closely with Product Management and Engineering to ensure that the proposed solutions meet the expected outcome and that we collectively deliver the best products to help development teams write better and more secure code. You will also collaborate with other designers and researchers across the organization ensuring consistency and contributing to best practices.
What You Will Do Daily:
- Contribute to the Sonar Advanced Security product design vision and advocate for a world-class user experience.
- Research map and architect complex user workflows to ensure our code security solutions are intuitive and highly functional.
- Integrate AI into every stage of your design workflow leveraging it to accelerate research synthesis automate repetitive tasks and explore high-fidelity prototypes more efficiently.
- Listen to our users and customers to understand their needs. Develop a deep understanding of code security and how we can enable developers to write more secure software.
- Work closely with other product designers to ensure a cohesive information architecture and a unified experience across the entire product platform.
- Align with your product manager on problem definition providing design solutions throughout the end-to-end development stage.
- Partner with engineering teams early in the design process to vet technical feasibility and uncover edge cases.
- Help the Product Design team grow by contributing to our design processes tools and collaborative frameworks.
The Experience You Will Need:
- Experience organizing data-heavy environments into logical structures and mapping user journeys that minimize friction.
- Demonstrated curiosity and practical experience using AI tools to accelerate research ideation and design velocity.
- A self-starter mindset with the drive to identify UX gaps and propose structural improvements without being prompted.
- Ability to articulate design decisions and the why behind them to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Comfort working in a cross-functional environment where feedback is shared openly and success is a team effort.
- Delivery mindset. Your role does not end when the design is handed off.
- Bonus points if you have a technical background in engineering or security.
Benefits of Working with Sonar:
- Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package.
- We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations. You will receive 23 days of PTO per calendar year (on a pro-rated basis depending on your employment start date) with additional time provided for sickness life events and holidays.
- We offer an exciting 401(k) plan that has a 4% match fully vested on day one of participation.
- Fully paid parking in the heart of downtown Austin Texas.
- Global workforce with employees in 20 countries representing 35 unique nationalities.
- We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.
- Monthly catered events and team events
We Value Diversity Equity and Inclusion:
At Sonar we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds perspectives and cultures.
We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants regardless of race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age or veteran status.
All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the precise results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.
We do not currently support visa candidates in the US.
Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- InVision
- Interaction Design
- Ux
- Usability
- Visual Design
- Design Thinking
- Zeplin
- User Research
- UI
- IOS
- Figma
- Sketch
About Company
Bad code is risky business. AI-generated or written by humans, Sonar ensures top-tier code quality & security. Protect your organization from bugs and vulnerabilities that jeopardize customer trust, damage your reputation, and undermine developer experience.
