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PrincipalProductDesigner(ContainerPlatform)
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“Principal Product Designer (Container Platform) at Docker. Skills: Product Design, Container Platform Design, Developer Tooling Design, AI-native Design Process, Cross-functional Collaboration, Design Strategy. Own the end-to-end design for the container platform. Distill complex developer workflows into elegant, opinionated solutions”
What You'll Achieve.
Influence product direction and strategy; Deliver extraordinary experiences for technical users; Own the design of the container platform end to end across workflows, visual quality, and system coherence, with demonstrable improvement; Act as a genuine strategic thought partner to senior leadership on the container platform and Docker's broader direction; Show what principal-level work looks like in motion; 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
Industry & Context.
Distill complex developer workflows into insights that shape design, product, and engineering decisions; Solving big problems with elegant solutions; Understand the difference between a workflow that technically works and one that developers actually trust and return to time and time again
Docker does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
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 opinions about them, Excellent project management, communication, and presentation skills, Experience leading, coaching, or mentoring product designers, Familiarity with container technologies, DevOps tooling, or infrastructure products, Empathy for developers as end-users, 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
Nice to Have
AI-native in your process: using tooling to move faster, synthesize earlier, and prototype first, Opinions, loosely held, about how to serve them better, Track record of delivering extraordinary experiences for technical users, You work quickly, think in systems, and understand the difference between a workflow that technically works and one that developers actually trust and return to time and time again, You bring a distinct point of view, you elevate the designers around you, and you're just as open to feedback on your own work as you are generous with it for others
What You'll Do.
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
Use AI tools actively throughout the design process for prototyping
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
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate and iterate with a cross-functional team of designers, product managers, and engineers; Work across stakeholders to build consensus on a shared product vision; Play well with others; Build active relationships across engineering, product, sales, and support leadership; Show up in critiques and stay in the flow with engineering and PM partners; Feed insight and craft back to the rest of the design team
Communication Scope
Excellent communication skills; Real ability to bring cross-functional teams along; Excellent presentation skills; Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills; Ability to explain complex ideas simply without dumbing them down
Process & Methodology
Excellent project management skills
Full Job Description
Docker has been one of the most loved brands in developer tooling, trusted by more than 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls. From solo founders to the world's largest companies, developers rely on Docker to build, share, and run their applications across our suite of products including Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout. We are a globally distributed, remote-first team building the tools that define how software gets built and delivered. As AI agents redefine software development, Docker is at the center of that shift, providing the sandboxed environments, verified images, and secure infrastructure that make autonomous workflows trustworthy by default. As a Principal Product Designer, you distill complex developer workflows into insights that shape design, product, and engineering decisions. You have deep, informed opinions about how developers are changing what it means to build and ship software. You're AI-native in your process: using tooling to move faster, synthesize earlier, and prototype first. You're passionate about technology and even more passionate about the people that use it. You tirelessly advocate for the developer and have deep empathy for the friction they hit every day. You put their needs first, and you have strong opinions, loosely held, about how to serve them better. Docker is modernizing how millions of builders experience development. We're looking for a Principal Product Designer who is deeply passionate about bringing human-centered thinking to developer tooling and who is ready to help lead the redesign of our container platform from a place of genuine conviction about where the industry is heading. The ideal candidate enjoys solving big problems with elegant solutions and has a strong track record of delivering extraordinary experiences for technical users. You work quickly, think in systems, and understand the difference between a workflow that technically works and one that developers actually t
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