Sr. UI Designer

Avenue Code; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a designer to shape Release Platform, its internal tooling for managing releases and deployments. You will partner with engineering and stakeholders to design a scalable, intuitive experience for planning, executing, monitoring, and improving software releases.

This role focuses on turning complex operational workflows into clear product flows, creating wireframes, mocks, and prototypes, and defining reusable UI patterns for a high-signal internal platform.

Qualifications

• Experience designing internal tools or enterprise platforms.
• Ability to abstract and simplify complex systems without losing critical detail.
• Strong systems thinking and information architecture skills.
• Experience designing dashboards and workflow-heavy tools.
• Clear communication and ability to collaborate asynchronously with technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end UX for managing releases and deployments.
• Turn complex workflows into intuitive product flows.
• Design for visibility, control, and accountability across the release lifecycle.
• Create reusable UI patterns for internal platform experiences.
• Produce wireframes, mocks, prototypes, and UX recommendations.
• Partner with engineering to translate platform capabilities into usable experiences.
• Identify confusing or hard-to-scale parts of the current UI.
• Map user journeys, roles, states, and edge cases across the lifecycle.
• Present work clearly and iterate quickly.

Skills

Internal tools design

UX design

Information architecture

Wireframing

Prototyping

Communication

Tools

Figma

Lit-Element

Release Automation

Release Management

Release Orchestration

React

Job description

We’re looking for a designer to help shape the future of Release Platform, Reddit’s single pane of glass for managing the release and deployment lifecycle.

This role will partner closely with engineering and cross-functional stakeholders to design a clear, scalable, and intuitive experience for planning, executing, monitoring, and improving software releases. The work is expected to be ongoing over the next year and is best suited for someone comfortable owning large, complex internal tooling problems from discovery through delivery.

Responsibilities

• Define the end-to-end user experience for how Reddit teams manage releases and deployments
• Simplify complex operational and technical workflows into intuitive product flows
• Design experiences for visibility, control, confidence, and accountability across the release lifecycle
• Create workflows and patterns for tasks such as release readiness, change review, deployment tracking, rollout status, incident awareness, and rollback support
• Partner with engineering to translate existing platform capabilities into usable product experiences
• Identify where the current experience is confusing, fragmented, manual, or hard to scale
• Build a coherent interaction model and visual language for a high-signal internal platform
• Produce wireframes, polished mocks, prototypes, and UX recommendations that can be implemented iteratively
• Partner with engineering, TPM, and stakeholders to understand current release and deployment workflows
• Turn ambiguous operational problems into clear UX flows and design proposals
• Map user journeys, roles, states, edge cases, and decision points across the release lifecycle
• Design for dense information environments, technical users, and high-consequence workflows
• Create reusable UI patterns for internal platform experiences
• Present work clearly, gather feedback, and iterate quickly
• Balance short-term improvements with longer-term platform vision
• Help define where product thinking, information architecture, and UX consistency are most needed

Required Qualifications

• Strong experience designing internal tools, enterprise products, or operational workflows
• Proficiency on Figma, Lit-Element, Application Release Automation, Release Management, Release Orchestration.
• Ability to make complex systems feel simple without losing critical detail
• Strong systems thinking and information architecture skills
• Experience designing dashboards, workflow-heavy tools, or configuration-heavy products
• Comfort working with engineers on ambiguous early-stage product and platform problems
• Strong proficiency in wireframing, prototyping, and high-fidelity UI design
• Experience designing for states, edge cases, permissions, and operational risk
• Clear communication and the ability to work asynchronously with technical stakeholders.

Nice To Have Skills

• Experience with release management, developer platforms, deployment tooling, or observability-adjacent workflows
• Experience designing for platform, DevEx, infrastructure, or reliability-oriented teams
• Familiarity with highly technical users and operational decision-making environments
• Experience helping define product direction when the initial design vision is not yet fully formed
• Experience with React