Sonatype

Staff Product Designer

Sonatype

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • Colorado • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

JavaScriptReact

About the role

  • Develop a deep understanding of Sonatype’s multi-product developer platform, personas, and core *jobs to be done*
  • Work closely with PMs and engineers to co-create user flows and experience direction
  • Map complex IA, developer workflows, permissions models, and multi-product interactions into clear, intuitive experience patterns
  • Create user and product flows in Miro that reflect real constraints, technical realities, and team input
  • Shape conceptual designs and UX architectures for new features and continuous, iterative improvements
  • Build coded UX prototypes using Claude Code, VS Code, GitHub workflows, and front-end fundamentals (HTML/CSS/JS/React)
  • Ensure your prototypes are structured enough that AI tools can generate engineering specs, scope definitions, and implementation requirements directly from your code diffs
  • Conduct lightweight, practical research (interviews, surveys, UAT, quick validation) when needed

Requirements

  • Significant experience designing enterprise software or developer platforms (typically 10–15+ years)
  • Experience collaborating deeply with engineers; hybrid UX/engineering backgrounds are a strong plus
  • Skilled at lightweight research (interviews, surveys, usability tests, UAT)
  • Able to choose the right level of research for the moment
  • Strong UX judgment, especially in complex technical domains
  • Ability to simplify aggressively within real constraints
  • Collaborative, positive, and non-defensive — thrives in evolving workflows
  • Clear communicator who works well with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • AI Mindset: Curious, experimental, and excited to incorporate AI into design workflows
Benefits
  • Parental leave
  • Diversity and inclusion working groups
  • Flexible working practices

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
UX designuser flowsinformation architectureprototypingHTMLCSSJavaScriptReactClaude CodeGitHub workflows
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationUX judgmentresearch skillssimplificationadaptabilitypositivitynon-defensivenesscuriosityexperimentation