Staff Product Designer - Sonatype

Sonatype is the software supply chain security company. We provide the world’s best end-to-end software supply chain security solution, combining the only proactive protection against malicious open source, the only enterprise grade SBOM management and the leading open source dependency management platform. This empowers enterprises to create and maintain secure, quality, and innovative software at scale.

As founders of Nexus Repository and stewards of Maven Central, the world’s largest repository of Java open-source software, we are software pioneers and our open source expertise is unmatched. We empower innovation with an unparalleled commitment to build faster, safer software and harness AI and data intelligence to mitigate risk, maximize efficiencies, and drive powerful software development.

More than 2,000 organizations, including 70% of the Fortune 100 and 15 million software developers, rely on Sonatype to optimize their software supply chains.

Sonatype is evolving how product design works inside a modern engineering organization. We’re moving beyond static artifacts and toward designing in code, co-creating solutions with engineering and PM, and leveraging AI to accelerate iteration and handoff.

If you’re a product designer who thrives on understanding complex developer workflows, building real prototypes, and shaping UX with your team (not in an isolated design bubble), you’ll be right at home here.

What You Will Do

• Develop a deep understanding of Sonatype ’s multi-product developer platform, personas, and core jobs to be done .
• Work closely with PMs and engineers to co-create user flows and experience direction — UX leads the thinking, but the outputs are created and iterated on together , not in isolation.
• Map complex IA, developer workflows, permissions models, and multi-product interactions into clear, intuitive experience patterns.
• Create user and product flows in Miro that reflect real constraints, technical realities, and team input.
• Shape conceptual designs and UX architectures for new features and continuous, iterative improvements — not large-scale redesigns.
• Build coded UX prototypes using Claude Code, VS Code, GitHub workflows, and front-end fundamentals (HTML/CSS/JS/React). These prototypes behave like real product experiences.
• Ensure your prototypes are structured enough that AI tools can generate engineering specs, scope definitions, and implementation requirements directly from your code diffs.
• Conduct lightweight, practical research (interviews, surveys, UAT, quick validation) when needed — and know when to proceed without research to keep momentum.
• Collaborate early and often to align constraints, scope, design direction, and technical feasibility.

What Success Looks Like

• Your prototypes aren’t just illustrative — they behave like real product experiences an