Senior Product Designer
Rise Technical Recruitment, Austin, TX, United States
Who is Sonar?
Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it—your internal team, genAI, or third parties—resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar's solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by more than 7 million developers and 400 000 organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T‑Mobile.
Why You Should Apply At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to supercharge developers so they can build better, faster code. Our products continuously improve code quality and security while reducing developer toil, enabling teams to focus on what they love. We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany.
The Impact You Will Have 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, ensuring that our developer and agent users write more secure code and have a seamless experience in the product.
What You Will Do Daily
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 users and customers to understand their needs and develop a deep understanding of code security and how to 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 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.
The Experience You Will Need
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 for a technical background in engineering or security.
Benefits of Working with Sonar
Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package.
23 days of PTO per calendar year (pro‑rated), with additional time for sickness, life events, and holidays.
Exciting 401(k) plan with a 4% match, fully vested on day one of participation.
Fully paid parking in downtown Austin, Texas.
Global workforce spanning 20+ countries and 35+ unique nationalities.
Annual worldwide kick‑off where we build relationships and set company goals.
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 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.
Additional Information All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the precise 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 submitted through agencies or third‑party recruiters will not be considered.
We may use artificial intelligence tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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Why You Should Apply At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to supercharge developers so they can build better, faster code. Our products continuously improve code quality and security while reducing developer toil, enabling teams to focus on what they love. We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany.
The Impact You Will Have 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, ensuring that our developer and agent users write more secure code and have a seamless experience in the product.
What You Will Do Daily
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 users and customers to understand their needs and develop a deep understanding of code security and how to 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 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.
The Experience You Will Need
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 for a technical background in engineering or security.
Benefits of Working with Sonar
Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package.
23 days of PTO per calendar year (pro‑rated), with additional time for sickness, life events, and holidays.
Exciting 401(k) plan with a 4% match, fully vested on day one of participation.
Fully paid parking in downtown Austin, Texas.
Global workforce spanning 20+ countries and 35+ unique nationalities.
Annual worldwide kick‑off where we build relationships and set company goals.
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 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.
Additional Information All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the precise 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 submitted through agencies or third‑party recruiters will not be considered.
We may use artificial intelligence tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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