Who is Sonar?
Founded in Geneva and now headquartered in Austin, Texas, Sonar has a global team working across offices and hubs, including Silicon Valley, London, Bochum, Barcelona, Singapore, Tokyo, and the Washington, D.C. area. At Sonar, we’re enabling enterprises to build agentic software factories that can move quickly while maintaining the control, consistency and evidence required to ship with confidence.
Position description
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 one of our product areas, where you’ll help ensure that our developer and agent users write better 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
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Own product design for a squad and advocate for a world-class user experience.
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Research and map complex user workflows to ensure our solutions are intuitive and highly functional.
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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.
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Listen to our users and customers to understand their needs. Develop a deep understanding of the SDLC and how we can enable developers and AI agents to produce better quality software.
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Work closely with other product designers to ensure a cohesive information architecture and a unified experience across the entire product platform.
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Align with your product manager on problem definition, providing design solutions throughout the end-to-end development stage.
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Partner with engineering teams early in the design process to vet technical feasibility and uncover edge cases.
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Help the Product Design team grow by contributing to our design processes, tools, and collaborative frameworks.
Experience and qualifications
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Experience organizing data-heavy environments into logical structures and mapping user journeys that minimize friction.
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Demonstrated curiosity and practical experience using AI tools to accelerate research, ideation and design velocity.
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A self-starter mindset with the drive to identify UX gaps and propose structural improvements without being prompted.
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Ability to articulate design decisions and the "why" behind them to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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Comfort working in a cross-functional environment where feedback is shared openly and success is a team effort.
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Delivery mindset. Your role does not end when the design is handed off.
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Bonus points if you have a technical background in computer science or software development.
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.
If you need any accommodation, please reach out to us at [email protected].
All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.
Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.