Senior Product Designer

Sonarsource; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package

23 days PTO annually

401(k) plan with 4% match

Fully paid parking

Monthly catered events

Job summary

Sonarsource is seeking a passionate product design generalist to enhance the user experience of its code quality and security products. You will be integral to the Code Security product area, working closely with Product Management and Engineering for optimal outcomes.

Your responsibilities include advocating for user experience, integrating AI in the design process, and ensuring seamless interactions. This position in Austin, Texas, offers a benefit package with generous PTO and a vibrant workplace culture.

Qualifications

• Experience in structuring user journeys to minimize friction.
• Curiosity in leveraging AI for design acceleration.
• Self-starter attitude with a proactive approach to UX improvements.
• Ability to communicate design rationale to diverse stakeholders.
• Comfortable in a team-oriented, feedback-driven setting.
• Focus on design delivery even post handoff.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design vision for code security products.
• Research and architect user workflows for intuitive solutions.
• Leverage AI in the design workflow to enhance efficiency.
• Gather user feedback to enhance product security features.
• Collaborate with designers for consistent user experience.
• Define problems with product managers and provide design solutions.
• Partner with engineering to verify design feasibility.
• Enhance team processes and tools for better collaboration.

Skills

Organizing data-heavy environments

Using AI tools for design

Identifying UX gaps

Articulating design decisions

Cross-functional collaboration

Delivery mindset

Job description

Who is Sonar?

Sonar is driving the future of agent-centric software development. As the leader in AI code review and verification, we solve a critical problem: ensuring that software generated by AI-assisted developers or autonomous agents is reliable, secure, and maintainable.

Integrating seamlessly with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, and Devin, we help over 75% of the Fortune 100 build trusted, reliable, compliant software. Customers who use Sonar are 44% less likely to report an outage due to AI-generated code.

We believe code verification is the critical missing link in the Agent-Centric Development Cycle (AC/DC). Industry giants like Nvidia, ServiceNow, Booking.com, Goldman Sachs, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Company count on us to provide independent, explainable, consistent review and governance of their AI-generated code via products like:

• SonarQube: The world’s leading AI code review and verification platform.
• SonarQube Foundation Agent: Currently topping the leaderboards for agentic software repair.
• SonarSweep & Sonar Context Augmentation: Providing the enterprise-grade context and constraints agents need to be truly effective.

Our team operates across global hubs in Austin, Bochum, Dubai, Geneva, London, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington D.C. We move with a mindset we call CODE:

• Committed to our customers and community.
• Obsessed with quality.
• Deliberate in our decisions.
• Effective as one team.

With over $400M in revenue and profitable, fast-paced growth, we are building the backbone of the AI software revolution. If you’re hungry to have an impact, want to build at a fast pace, and ready to work at the forefront of AI, we want to hear from you.

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 the Code Security product area, where you’ll 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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

• 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.

If you need any accommodation, please reach out to us at [e-mail].

All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the 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.