Senior Product Designer
runpodAlbany (NY)
$125,000 - $220,000
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runpodAlbany (NY)
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Senior
SALARY
$125,000 - $220,000
About the role
Runpod is the AI Developer Cloud. More than one million developers, from indie researchers to teams running frontier models in production, use Runpod to experiment, train, fine-tune, deploy, and scale AI on one platform. The platform has processed more than 20 billion inference requests. We closed a $100M Series A in June 2026. Learn more in our CEO's funding announcement: We're at an inflection point for AI infrastructure, and we're building the platform the next generation of developers will depend on. We're a small, remote-first team. We take ownership seriously, move fast, and ship work that more than a million developers rely on every day. We're looking for people who care deeply, build with urgency, and want to matter at scale. We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to help define the next generation of Runpod’s product experience. This role is for a designer with exceptional craft, strong product judgment, deep user empathy, and the ability to turn complex technical workflows into experiences that feel simple, powerful, and delightful. This is not a passive design role. We are looking for someone who moves with urgency, pushes for clarity, drives decisions, and raises the bar without waiting to be told what to do. You should (be comfortable taking ambiguous problems, shaping them into a clear product experience, and partnering with Engineering and Product to get high-quality experiences shipped quickly. You will own the design quality of core product surfaces across Runpod’s AI infrastructure platform. You will work closely with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Customer Success, Sales, Marketing, and company leadership to create user experiences that are not just functional, but memorable. Success in this role means raising the bar for how Runpod feels to use: clearer workflows, faster time-to-value, stronger customer trust, better product polish, and moments that surprise and delight developers.
Responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end design for core areas of Runpod’s AI infrastructure platform, from discovery through launch and iteration.
- Turn complex workflows across compute, deployment, storage, networking, billing, observability, and AI model operations into intuitive user experiences.
- Move quickly from ambiguity to action: identify UX problems, frame tradeoffs, propose solutions, and drive decisions.
- Partner closely with Engineering and Product to shape direction, define requirements, and ship high-quality experiences.
- Create polished flows, prototypes, high-fidelity designs, interaction patterns, and production-ready specs. Define and design systems to enable continuous design-to-code workflows
- Raise the craft bar through strong information architecture, visual design, interaction design, UX writing, accessibility, and edge-case thinking.
- Use customer conversations, usability testing, analytics, and support feedback to find friction and improve the experience.
- Contribute to Runpod’s design system so the product becomes more consistent, scalable, and distinctive.
- Create moments of delight through thoughtful defaults, clear feedback, elegant interactions, and details that make the product feel carefully built.
Requirements:
6+ years of product design experience, ideally with developer tools, cloud platforms, infrastructure products, AI/ML tools, enterprise software, data products, or technical SaaS.A strong portfolio showing excellent UX thinking, visual craft, interaction design, systems thinking, and the ability to simplify complex products. High urgency and ownership, with a track record of driving design work forward in fast-moving, ambiguous environments. Strong product judgment and the ability to balance user needs, technical constraints, speed, quality, and business impact. Excellent visual and interaction design skills, with sharp attention to hierarchy, layout, typography, spacing, states, flows, and microinteractions. Experience working closely with engineers and product managers to ship technically complex products. Ability to understand workflows involving APIs, infrastructure, cloud platforms, deployment, observability, usage-based pricing, or AI/ML systems. Experience using qualitative and quantitative insights to guide design decisions. Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain design rationale clearly and build alignment across teams. Deep care for craft, quality, and the small details that make software feel great.
Nice to Have:
- Experience designing for developers, AI engineers, infrastructure teams, data scientists, or technical enterprise users.
- Experience in AI, ML, cloud compute, DevOps, observability, data infrastructure, or usage-based SaaS.Experience with onboarding, activation, dashboards, billing, deployment workflows, or complex configuration experiences.
- Experience with front-end implementation, design engineering, or prototyping in code.
- What You’ll Receive:
- The competitive base pay for this position ranges from ($125,000 - $220,000). This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Runpod and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location
- Meaningful equity in a fast-growing company- everyone on the team receives stock options — your impact drives our growth, and you share in the upside.
- Generous medical, dental & vision plans
- Flexible PTO- take the time you need to recharge
- Most roles are remote work first with an inclusive, collaborative teams utilizing slack as the main form of internal communication
- Join a passionate team on the cutting edge of AI infrastructure — where culture, learning, and ownership are at the heart of how we scale.$1,200 Home Office & Equipment Stipend- We set you up for success from day one with gear and support to create your ideal workspace
Runpod is committed to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination and upholding the principles of equality and respect for all individuals. We believe that diversity in all its forms enhances our team. As an equal opportunity employer, Runpod is committed to creating an inclusive workforce at every level. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We welcome every qualified candidate eligible to work in the United States; however, we are currently unable to sponsor employment visas
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