Senior Product Designer: AI-Driven Agent UX Lead

Sonarsource; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Sonar is seeking a passionate, seasoned product designer to lead our Product Design team. You will shape the experience for both agentic and human users as they build the software of the future, helping developers and AI agents write better, more secure code.

You will collaborate with Product Management and Engineering to ensure proposed solutions meet outcomes, while aligning with design peers to maintain consistent information architecture and best practices across the platform.

Qualifications

• Experience organizing complex environments into logical structures and mapping user journeys to minimize friction.
• Practical experience using AI tools to accelerate research, ideation and design velocity.
• Self-starter mindset with drive to identify UX gaps and propose structural improvements.
• Ability to articulate design decisions for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead product design across your squad, setting design direction and raising the bar for craft, quality, and strategic thinking.
• Build for AI agents as first class users. You won't just be designing for human users; you will ensure the product works well for silicon-based users too.
• 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 the SDLC, and enable developers and AI agents to produce better quality software.
• Work closely with other product designers to ensure a cohesive information architecture and a unified experience across the product platform.
• Align with your product manager on problem definition and provide design solutions throughout the end-to-end development stage.
• Partner with engineering teams early to vet feasibility and edge cases.
• Mentor fellow designers through critique, pairing, and feedback; invest in the team's growth.
• Shape and advance the Product Design team's processes, tools, and collaboration frameworks.

Skills

Product design leadership

AI workflows

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring designers

Design systems

Education

Background in computer science or design degree

Tools

AI tools & models

SDLC familiarity

Job description

Sonar is seeking a passionate, seasoned product designer to lead our Product Design team. You will shape the experience for both agentic and human users as they build the software of the future, helping developers and AI agents write better, more secure code.

You will collaborate with Product Management and Engineering to ensure proposed solutions meet outcomes, while aligning with design peers to maintain consistent information architecture and best practices across the platform.