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Sonar is seeking a Chief VP of Design to lead the company's 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:
- Own end-to-end product design vision across Sonar's product line, including visual design, interaction design, workflows, and platform evolution
- Define and drive design strategy tied to measurable business outcomes, working with Product and Engineering leadership to prioritize investments and track design's impact on key metrics
- Build, scale, and lead a global design organization through hiring, mentoring, and developing design talent to foster a high-performing, creative, and inclusive team culture
- Champion and evolve Sonar's design systems and UX best practices, ensuring consistency and quality across a complex, technical, developer-facing product suite
- Guide the design approach for agentic and AI-driven features, ensuring the team understands emerging patterns and best practices
- Engage directly with customers, users, and industry leaders to gather insights and translate them into actionable, high-impact design solutions
- Represent design at the executive level, communicating strategy, trade-offs, and progress to executive leadership and cross-functional global stakeholders
- Partner with Product Management and Engineering to ensure design is embedded 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 related field, with 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 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
