Senior Product Designer

chromatic

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Chromatic (dev-tooling company) seeks a Senior Product Designer to design developer workflows for AI agents — spanning research, design, implementation, and agent skills/harnesses that encode design decisions. Requires 8+ years, shipped technical products, fluency with coding agents, and the ability to build prototypes and production UI in React. Remote, North America or Europe; $143K–$162K plus equity.

Must-have skills

  • 8+ years product design with strong UX and visual craft
  • shipped technical products with deep understanding of their mechanics
  • prototypes and production UI built in React
  • uses coding agents and tunes the quality of their output
  • durable design systems (components, tokens, guidelines) for engineers and agents

Nice-to-have

  • researching customer workflows against business priorities
  • verifying implementation quality: interaction, accessibility, copy, edge cases
  • explaining technical ideas and design decisions clearly in writing and visuals

Tools mentioned

Reactcoding agents (unspecified)

Experience

8+ years

Scope & seniority

Senior IC designer on dev-tooling product; designs for agents as users, not just humans

Practical notes

  • Required location: North America or Europe
  • Salary range: $143K–$162K + equity

✓ Green flags

  • Designing agent-facing developer workflows — genuinely new design surface
  • Salary band disclosed; compensation philosophy published
  • Hands-on builder role: design to code to agent harnesses in one seat

⚠ Worth knowing

  • Must build production UI in React — effectively a design-engineer role, not pure design
  • Short posting for an 8+ year role; little signal on team, roadmap, or craft bar

Full description

Product Design spans research, design, and implementation. We’re looking for a hands-on builder who is deeply curious about bringing developer workflows to agents.

Required Location: North America or Europe.

Responsibilities

  • Design every detail of a product experience from initial concept to user flow to pixels.

  • Understand the algorithms, policies, and prior art that underpin design.

  • Research how customers work, then weigh the findings against business priorities to decide what to build.

  • Verify implementation quality, including interaction behavior, accessibility, copy, and edge cases.

  • Build durable design systems with components, tokens, and guidelines for engineers and agents.

  • Develop agent skills and harnesses that encode design decisions.

  • Work with Marketing on visuals and content for the features you've shipped.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of product design experience with strong UX and visual craft.

  • You’ve shipped technical products and demonstrate a deep understanding of their mechanics.

  • You use coding agents, experiment with new workflows, and tune the quality of their output.

  • You build prototypes and production UI in React.

  • You work within existing design patterns and balance scope against business needs.

  • You bring recommendations, seek feedback early, and change your mind with new data.

  • You explain technical ideas and design decisions clearly in writing and visuals.

Salary Range: US $143K - US$162K + equity. Learn more about our compensation philosophy here. For a list of our other benefits & a peek into life at Chromatic, visit our careers page.

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