Principal Product Designer (Container Platform)

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
• First 30 Days
• Complete onboarding and ramp up on Docker Desktop, the CLI, and container platform systems. Go beyond surface level and understand how the pieces connect.
• Audit all existing design work across the container platform: what has been tried, what shipped, what didn't, and why.
• Shadow customer calls to start building a ground-level view of how people actually use the platform and where the

Requirements

• 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
• Attributes We Look For
• 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

Additional Information

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 trust and return to time and time again. Your ideas directly influence Docker's product direction and growth. You have excellent communication skills and a real ability to bring cross-functional teams along with you, from individual engineers and PMs to senior leadership. You play well with others. You thrive in a fast-paced, remote-first environment. 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. Sound like you? Join the team!

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