Senior Product Designer - Runpod

Runpod is the AI Developer Cloud. More than one million developers, from indie researchers to teams running frontier models in production, use Runpod to experiment, train, fine-tune, deploy, and scale AI on one platform. The platform has processed more than 20 billion inference requests.

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to help define the next generation of Runpod’s product experience. This role is for a designer with exceptional craft, strong product judgment, deep user empathy, and the ability to turn complex technical workflows into experiences that feel simple, powerful, and delightful.

You will own the design quality of core product surfaces across Runpod’s AI infrastructure platform. You will work closely with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Customer Success, Sales, Marketing, and company leadership to create user experiences that are not just functional, but memorable.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design for core areas of Runpod’s AI infrastructure platform, from discovery through launch and iteration.
• Turn complex workflows across compute, deployment, storage, networking, billing, observability, and AI model operations into intuitive user experiences.
• Move quickly from ambiguity to action: identify UX problems, frame tradeoffs, propose solutions, and drive decisions.
• Partner closely with Engineering and Product to shape direction, define requirements, and ship high-quality experiences.
• Create polished flows, prototypes, high-fidelity designs, interaction patterns, and production-ready specs. Define and design systems to enable continuous design-to-code workflows.
• Raise the craft bar through strong information architecture, visual design, interaction design, UX writing, accessibility, and edge-case thinking.
• Use customer conversations, usability testing, analytics, and support feedback to find friction and improve the experience.
• Contribute to Runpod’s design system so the product becomes more consistent, scalable, and distinctive.
• Create moments of delight through thoughtful defaults, clear feedback, elegant interactions, and details that make the product feel carefully built.

Requirements

• 6+ years of product design experience, ideally with developer tools, cloud platforms, infrastructure products, AI/ML tools, enterprise software, data products, or technical SaaS.
• A strong portfolio showing excellent UX thinking, visual craft, interaction design, systems thinking, and the ability to simplify complex products.
• High urgency and ownership, with a track record of driving design work forward in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
• Strong product judgment and the ability to balance user needs, technical constraints, speed, quality, and business impact.
• Excellent visual and interaction design skills, with sharp attention to hierarchy, layout, typography, spacing, states, flows, and microinteractions.
• Experience working closely with engineers and product managers to ship technically complex products.
• Ability to understand workflows involving APIs, infrastructure, cloud platforms, deployment, observability, usage-based pricing, or AI/ML systems.
• Experience using qualitative and quantitative insights to guide design decisions.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain design rationale clearly and build alignment across teams.
• Deep care for craft, quality, and the small details that make software feel great.

Nice to Have

• Experience designing for developers, AI engineers, infrastructure teams, data scientists, or technical enterprise users.
• Experience in AI, ML, cloud compute, DevOps, observability, data infrastructure, or usage-based SaaS.
• Experience with onboarding, activation, dashboards, billing, deployment workflows, or complex configuration experiences.
• Experience with front-end implementation, design engineering, or prototyping in code.

Benefits & Compensation

• Base salary range: $125,000 – $220,000
• Meaningful equity (stock options)
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible PTO policy
• $1,200 Home Office & Equipment Stipend
• Remote-first culture with collaborative team tooling