Sonar

Senior Product Designer

Posted 23 Days Ago

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Austin, TX, USA

Hybrid

Senior level

Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Security • Software

Sonar is the trust & verification layer for AI and agentic coding, and the industry standard for automated code review.

The Role

Join the Product Design team at Sonar to shape code security products. Collaborate with managers and engineers, optimize user experiences, and advocate for intuitive design solutions.

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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 +7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T-Mobile.

We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture. We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company, users, each other, and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity, dedication, thoughtfulness, empathy, and passion daily.

We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time, we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly.

And lastly, we are highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.

At Sonar, CODE is more than just an acronym – it's a mindset that defines daily operations.

Why You Should Apply:

At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better, faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they don’t. Our solutions don’t just solve symptoms of problems – we help fix issues at the source – for all code, whether it's developer-written, AI-generated, or from third parties.

We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day, work on a product they are proud of, love what they do, and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community, we’re all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better, faster.

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, where you’ll help ensure that our developer and agent users write more secure code and have a seamless experience in the product.

You will work closely with Product Management and Engineering to ensure that the proposed solutions meet the expected outcome and that we collectively deliver the best products to help development teams write better and more secure code. You will also collaborate with other designers and researchers across the organization, ensuring consistency and contributing to best practices.

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 our users and customers to understand their needs. Develop a deep understanding of code security and how we can 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 entire 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 if you have a technical background in engineering or security.

Benefits of Working with Sonar:

Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package.
We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations. You will receive 23 days of PTO per calendar year (on a pro-rated basis depending on your employment start date), with additional time provided for sickness, life events and holidays.
We offer an exciting 401(k) plan that has a 4% match, fully vested on day one of participation.
Fully paid parking in the heart of downtown Austin, Texas.
Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities.
We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.
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 committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. 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.

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 that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.

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The Company

HQ: Austin, TX

800 Employees

Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

Sonar provides the essential verification layer for the AI-driven development era, ensuring all code—whether human-written or AI-generated—is code you can trust. Today, AI coding tools are generating explosive volumes of code. This has created an "engineering productivity paradox" : faster code writing doesn't automatically lead to faster, safer software delivery. The new bottleneck is verification. Sonar solves this. Integrating code quality and code security into a single platform (SonarQube), Sonar is the foundation for high performance software engineering, analyzing over 750 billion lines of code daily to ensure applications are secure, reliable, and maintainable. As an independent verification platform, Sonar enables organizations to securely develop at the speed of AI. We are driven by a deep belief in our people, a commitment to excellence, and an unwavering dedication to delivery. We operate as a united group where our collective success is the sum of each individual's contributions. Our company culture is driven by the values of CODE: Committed, Obsessed, Deliberate & Effective. This mindset reflects our culture of creativity, collaboration, and pride in the work we do. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 35 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by 7M+ developers worldwide, including Snowflake, Booking.com, Deutsche Bank, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Company. Sonar is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland with additional offices in Austin, Texas; Bochum, Germany; London, Singapore, and Tokyo. The company is rapidly growing with over 800 employees! Join us in our mission to solve the trillion-dollar challenge of bad code!

Why Work With Us

We are a product-first company, with a people-first culture. Every employee has the opportunity to grow and learn. We promote from within, provide regular feedback and professional development opportunities, value the right to fail along with respect and kindness and work with team members to achieve their full potential.