[Remote] Principal Product Designer (Container Platform)

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

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