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Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end design for the container platform
- Distill complex developer workflows into elegant, opinionated solutions
- Collaborate and iterate with a cross-functional team of designers, product managers, and engineers
- Use AI tools actively throughout the design process for prototyping, synthesis, and iteration
- Work across stakeholders to build consensus on a shared product vision
- Constructively challenge existing approaches and push for better solutions
- Mentor and coach members of the product design team
- Partner with senior leadership to design strategy
Qualifications
- Proven track record influencing product direction and strategy with actionable, research-informed design
- Deep experience designing for developer tools, platforms, or infrastructure products
- Solid understanding of qualitative and quantitative research methods with an ability to synthesize and communicate quickly
- Fluency with prototyping, quick visualizations, and iterative development
- Demonstrated ability to learn new technology domains and develop strong opinions about them
- Excellent project management, communication, and presentation skills
- Experience leading, coaching, or mentoring product designers. We currently have a number of staff designers and senior designers and this role is expected to help level up the team as a whole. You’re not working in a silo, but rather defining design practice at Docker
- Familiarity with container technologies, DevOps tooling, or infrastructure products
Attributes We Look For
- Empathy for developers as end-users; you understand their frustration with bad tooling personally
- Strong opinions, loosely held; you advocate hard and change up gracefully
- Humility and a genuine learning mindset
- Ability to explain complex ideas simply without dumbing them down
- Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills
- Reflective, accountable, and ownership-oriented
- AI forward design process: you're meaningfully integrated tooling into your design practice
What to ExpectFirst 30 Days
- Complete onboarding and ramp up on Docker Desktop, the CLI, and container platform systems. Go beyond surface level and understand how the pieces connect.
- Audit all existing design work across the container platform: what has been tried, what shipped, what didn't, and why.
- Shadow customer calls to start building a ground-level view of how people actually use the platform and where the friction lives.
- By week 3, be sharing work and early thinking with the team. Not polished, just visible.
- By the end of month one, have a working directional point of view on where the container platform needs to go.
First 60 Days
- Build active relationships across engineering, product, sales, and support leadership.
- Be actively designing and shipping work. Show up in critiques and stay in the flow with engineering and PM partners.
- Establish your agentic workflow scaffolding: define how you are using AI tooling for prototyping, synthesis, and iteration, and get in sync with how the broader design team is working.
- Crystallize a design-led point of view on where the container platform is headed and share it with your manager and team.
One-Year Outlook
- Fully own the design of the container platform end to end across workflows, visual quality, and system coherence, with demonstrable improvement from where things were on day one.
- Act as a genuine strategic thought partner to senior leadership on the container platform and Docker's broader direction.
- Feed insight and craft back to the rest of the design team, especially admin and bridge-side designers. Show what principal-level work looks like in motion, not in a job description.
- By year one the container platform should feel unmistakably better in workflow clarity, visual craft, and developer trust, and that should be traceable to your presence on the team.
Docker does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.
