Senior Product Designer — Developer Tools & AI

apollographql.com; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Apollo GraphQL is seeking a senior designer to own end-to-end design for developer tools, influencing onboarding, product interfaces, and the design system. You will collaborate with engineering and PMs to shape scope, ship v1 experiences, and iterate based on usage, aiming to improve developer activation and reduce friction.

The role emphasizes designing for complex technical workflows, maintaining trust through detail-oriented design, and contributing to reusable design system patterns.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing software, with a focus on product or UX design.
• A portfolio of shipped work.
• Experience designing complex products, ideally for technical users: developer tools, infrastructure, data, security, identity, or APIs.
• A track record of owning features or workflows end to end, from discovery through shipping.
• Strong visual design, interaction, and craft skills.
• Comfortable working through ambiguity within a defined problem area.
• Have shipped developer-focused experiences, API tooling, or agent experiences.
• Experience contributing to a design system, and knowing when to work outside it.
• Use AI tools to prototype and explore ideas faster.
• An engineering background, or comfort working in code.
• Curious about developer tools and AI agents.
• Equally comfortable thinking through a whole user journey and sweating the interaction details.
• San Francisco Bay Area preferred

Responsibilities

• Own design for defined workflows in our developer tools, from discovery through shipped experience.
• Partner day to day with engineers and PMs to shape what gets built, and bring a point of view on scope and trade-offs.
• Scope v1s that deliver value quickly, then iterate based on usage and feedback.
• Design for the details that make technical products trustworthy: states, edge cases, errors, and permissions.
• Contribute reusable patterns and components to our design system, and help migrate product surfaces onto it.
• Use AI tools to prototype and test ideas quickly, and run lightweight usability tests when the cost of being wrong is high.
• Tie your work to outcomes such as task completion, developer activation, or fewer support tickets from confusing flows.

Skills

Product design

UX design

Visual design

Interaction design

Design systems

Developer tools

Job description

Apollo GraphQL is seeking a senior designer to own end-to-end design for developer tools, influencing onboarding, product interfaces, and the design system. You will collaborate with engineering and PMs to shape scope, ship v1 experiences, and iterate based on usage, aiming to improve developer activation and reduce friction.

The role emphasizes designing for complex technical workflows, maintaining trust through detail-oriented design, and contributing to reusable design system patterns.