CIQ OVERVIEW
CIQ builds the enterprise infrastructure that powers the world's most demanding workloads. From the operating system layer through AI infrastructure, high-performance computing, and cloud-native orchestration, CIQ delivers the speed, security, scalability, and sovereignty that major enterprises, government agencies, and research institutions depend on.
CIQ is the founding support and services partner of Rocky Linux and the developer of the RLC Pro family of Enterprise Linux distributions, Fuzzball workload orchestration, Warewulf Pro cluster provisioning, and Ascender Pro automation. Our customers include some of the largest and most technically sophisticated organizations in the world, working across HPC, AI/ML, defense, and regulated industries.
We are a company of builders, operators, and open source practitioners. If you want to do work that matters, at a company that is genuinely changing how enterprise infrastructure gets built and run, we want to talk.
POSITION SUMMARY
As a Sr. Product Designer at CIQ, you will own the end-to-end design of complex enterprise products used by engineers, operators, and administrators at some of the most technically demanding organizations in the world. You will work directly with product and engineering to define, design, test, and ship experiences that make powerful infrastructure more accessible without sacrificing depth or precision.
This is an individual contributor role with real ownership. You will not be executing tickets. You will be making design decisions that shape how our products work and feel, building systems that scale, and using research and data to validate what you build.
CIQ has embraced AI fully. You will be encouraged to use AI tools as a core part of your design and prototyping workflow, as well as contribute to and mature workflows and internal design processes.
Additional responsibilities include:
- Own design from discovery through delivery across one or more product areas.
- Contribute to and grow the CIQ design system
- Conduct user research and usability testing with technically sophisticated enterprise users.
- Define and track design quality metrics and use them to drive iteration.
- Prototype rapidly to explore and communicate ideas.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and other designers throughout the full development cycle.
- Contribute to design culture and process on a small, high-ownership team.
NEEDED TO SUCCEED
Successful candidates will have:
- 4+ years of product design experience with a portfolio demonstrating complex enterprise B2B product work.
- Deep experience designing data-heavy interfaces, multi-step workflows, admin tools, or developer-facing products.
- Strong interaction design and visual design skills with demonstrated ability to work across both.
- Hands-on experience with user research, usability testing, and measuring design outcomes.
- Proficiency in Figma
- Active use of AI tools in design and prototyping workflows
- The ability to operate independently, drive decisions, and move fast without waiting for direction.
- A friendly, collaborative, humble, honest, and always striving to be better attitude.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
- Proven work experience as a product designer on technically complex B2B or enterprise software products.
- Portfolio required, demonstrating shipped product work and the thinking behind design decisions.
- Experience working on small design teams or as the primary designer for a product area.
- Background in a growth-stage technology company, preferably in developer tools or data. Infrastructure, analytics, security, or a related technical domain.
- No specific degree required; demonstrated skill and experience are what matter.
BENEFITS
Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Flexible paid time off.
Employee stock options.
Remote work; no travel required for most positions.
Skills Required
- 4+ years of product design experience
- Portfolio demonstrating complex enterprise B2B product work and shipped product decisions
- Experience designing data-heavy interfaces, multi-step workflows, admin tools, or developer-facing products
- Strong interaction design and visual design skills
- Hands-on experience with user research and usability testing
- Experience measuring design outcomes and tracking design quality metrics
- Proficiency in Figma
- Active use of AI tools in design and prototyping workflows
- Ability to work independently and drive design decisions
- Experience working on small design teams or as the primary designer for a product area
- Experience with technically complex B2B or enterprise software products
- Growth-stage technology company background, preferably in developer tools, data, infrastructure, analytics, security, or a related technical domain
- Specific degree
What We Do
Empowering People To Do What They Do Great! At CIQ, we are here to help our customers and communities do amazing things! We are your escalation or development team. We are your infrastructure. We are your cloud. We are the people that will have your back, so you can do what you do great. Our Values Empowering Innovating software infrastructure solutions for extreme performance and scale including service models designed to meet the needs of your organization. Improving Our passion is to always do better. Always provide more value. Always drive intelligent innovation. Always provide what the customer & community needs. Growing CIQ believes in constant and never-ending growth. We are growing fast and looking for like-minded people with an unwavering passion for always doing better for ourselves and others. What do you get when you cross High Performance Computing with Enterprise, Cloud, and Hyper-scale? The Answer is CIQ. CIQ is composed of technology founders, innovators, engineers, some of the leading creators in the industry, and we all share the same vision: to help companies, teams, and individuals do amazing things. Open Source When we decide to open source a project, it is because we believe it would be best for the project and community. But open source is not a marketing gimmick nor a sales tool, and it should never be at the mercy of a corporate agenda. This is why we’ve given our open source initiatives properly to the community, and we strive to set the precedent such that other companies would do likewise. Always Customers First Our model is simple: We support people, not cores or sockets. People. Follow us on YouTube and Twitter: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQbKq1vIffqRAMUDPfHcU0w https://twitter.com/CtrlIQ?s=20&t=7pQXepSSimeTqytBY52Dhw
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