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Sonar is seeking a Chief VP of Design to lead the company's end-to-end design vision and execution across its product portfolio. Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, this is Sonar's most senior design leadership role, responsible for setting design strategy, scaling a high-performing global design organization, and ensuring products deliver exceptional, cohesive experiences for developers and enterprise customers.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning end-to-end product design vision across Sonar's product line, including visual design, interaction design, workflows, and platform evolution
- Defining and driving design strategy tied to measurable business outcomes, working with Product and Engineering leadership to prioritize investments and track design's impact on key metrics
- Building, scaling, and leading a global design organization through hiring, mentoring, and developing design talent to foster a high-performing, creative, and inclusive team culture
- Championing and evolving Sonar's design systems and UX best practices to ensure consistency and quality across a complex, technical, developer-facing product suite
- Guiding design approach for agentic and AI-driven features, ensuring the team understands emerging patterns and best practices
- Engaging directly with customers, users, and industry leaders to gather insights and translate them into actionable, high-impact design solutions
- Representing design at the executive level, communicating strategy, trade-offs, and progress to executive leadership and cross-functional global stakeholders
- Partnering with Product Management and Engineering to embed design early in the product development process
About Sonar: Sonar is the leader in AI code review and verification, helping over 75% of the Fortune 100 build trusted, reliable, compliant software. The company integrates with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, and Devin. With over $400M in revenue and profitable, fast-paced growth, Sonar operates across global hubs in Austin, Bochum, Dubai, Geneva, London, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington D.C.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of management experience in product design, UX, or a related field, with a proven track record of leading and scaling teams globally
- Demonstrated success in end-to-end product design leadership, including visual design, interaction design, workflows, strategic product thinking, and platform evolution
- Deep expertise in design systems and UX best practices, including experience designing for developer tools, API-based tools, or similar technical/complex products
- Good understanding of the agentic domain and how it shapes product and design decisions
- Experience defining design strategy that drives measurable business outcomes
- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across executive leadership, cross-functional teams, and global stakeholders
- Proven ability to mentor and develop design talent, fostering a high-performing, creative, and inclusive global design culture
- Deep understanding of customer needs and market trends, with experience engaging directly with users and industry leaders to translate insights into actionable, high-impact design solutions
Note: This role is based in Austin, TX. The company is unable to consider candidates unwilling to be in Austin but is willing to relocate the right candidate.
