Senior UX Designer

Harness is a high-growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely and quickly, increasing customers' pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy and manage reliability, feature flags and cloud costs. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI, CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace.
 
Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. We're backed with $425M in venture financing from top-tier VC and strategic firms, including J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.

The mission of Harness is to empower the 30M+ developers in the world with the ability to deliver software to end customers with the highest velocity, highest quality, highest security, highest reliability, and lowest costs, all without compromising on the necessary governance guardrails. According to a recent analyst study, less than five percent of organizations achieve that goal today.

As a Senior Product Designer at Harness, you'll play a key role in shaping the user experience of our Internal Developer Portal product. You'll conduct customer research, evaluate the usability of existing experiences, and define simpler and more elegant solutions. You'll work alongside product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders and drive the design process from ideation and user research to wireframing, prototyping, and final UI design. Your work will directly impact how users interact with our product, ensuring designs are functional, beautiful, and aligned with both user needs and business goals.

About You

• With 3+ years of product design experience, your portfolio demonstrates an ability to solve complex problems and create intuitive, user-friendly experiences.
• Skilled at balancing user needs with business goals, you bring a meticulous attention to detail from concept through launch.
• Experience spans the full design lifecycle—ideation, prototyping, iteration, and delivery—while collaborating closely with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional teams.
• A strong believer that user insights drive great design, you actively seek and apply data to inform decisions.
• Beyond solid UX principles, your visual design skills stand out—producing interfaces that are both aesthetically refined and highly functional.
• Thrives in fast-paced startup settings, taking ownership of work and approaching challenges with energy and creativity.
• Keeps a pulse on AI design trends, applying emerging tools to enhance workflow and produce exceptional results.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to translate requirements into innovative, user-focused solutions.
• Communicate design concepts across the product lifecycle through wireframes, flow diagrams, storyboards, mockups, and high-fidelity prototypes.
• Incorporate user feedback and business needs into continuous product improvements.
• Use data to refine design decisions
• Champion design-centered enhancements, advocating for refinements that improve user experience, product-led growth, and overall product quality.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in product or UX design.
• Skilled in Figma and rapid prototyping tools
• Strong experience in product thinking, user research, and attention to detail.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• A portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to case studies. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of experience working on complex SaaS products, especially in developer experience, CI/CD or other DevOps tools.
• 1+ year of experience leading large-scale end-to-end design projects.
• Strong problem-solving skills, especially with complex issues, and a solid understanding of technical constraints and limitations.
• A keen eye for detail, with excellent visual design skills that enhance the overall user experience.

Harness in the news:

• Harness AI Tackles Software Development's Real Bottleneck
• After 'Vibe Coding' Comes 'Vibe Testing' (Almost)
• Startup Within a Startup: Empowering Intrapreneurs for Scalable Innovation - Jyoti Bansal (Harness)
• Jyoti Bansal, Harness | theCUBEd Awards
• Eight years after selling AppDynamics to Cisco, Jyoti Bansal is pursuing an unusual merger
• Harness snags , as it goes all in on feature flags and experiments
• Exclusive: Jyoti Bansal-led Harness has raised $150 million in debt financing

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

Note on Fraudulent Recruiting/Offers

We have become aware that there may be fraudulent recruiting attempts being made by people posing as representatives of Harness. These scams may involve fake job postings, unsolicited emails, or messages claiming to be from our recruiters or hiring managers. 

Please note, we do not ask for sensitive or financial information via chat, text, or social media, and any email communications will come from the domain Additionally, Harness will never ask for any payment, fee to be paid, or purchases to be made by a job applicant. All applicants are encouraged to apply directly to our open jobs via our website. Interviews are generally conducted via Zoom video conference unless the candidate requests other accommodations.

If you believe that you have been the target of an interview/offer scam by someone posing as a representative of Harness, please do not provide any personal or financial information and contact us immediately at  You can also find additional information about this type of scam and report any fraudulent employment offers via the Federal Trade Commission's website ), or you can contact your local law enforcement agency.

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