Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Docker, Inc is a leading company in developer tooling, trusted by millions of users. They are seeking a Principal Product Designer to shape design and engineering decisions for their container platform, focusing on human-centered design and improving developer experiences.
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
Skills
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life
- Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break
- Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work
- 16 weeks of paid Parental leave (after 6 months of employment)
- Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month
- PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy
- Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes
- Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company
- Docker Swag
- Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country
- Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris
Company Overview
At Docker, we simplify the lives of developers who are making world-changing apps. It was founded in 2011, and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://www.docker.com.