Staff Product Designer, Admin

Docker, Inc is a leading brand in developer tooling, trusted by millions of users. They are seeking a Staff Product Designer for the Admin Platform to create user-friendly designs that enhance the administrator's experience while managing Docker products.

Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end design for the Admin Platform: settings, identity and access management, billing, policy surfaces, and cross-product admin workflows
• Ensure that administrators can manage their organizations and achieve their goals across every Docker product surface without hitting seams or contradictions
• Identify UX debt across the admin domain and drive it into the roadmap; you're accountable for the overall quality of the experience, not just the next sprint
• Partner closely with Engineering and PM to define how new products and features integrate with the admin platform in a way that feels coherent, not bolted on
• Use AI tools actively throughout the design process for prototyping, synthesis, and iteration
• Collaborate across stakeholders (product, engineering, sales, security, and legal) to build a shared design direction for how Docker serves its administrators
• Mentor and elevate more junior designers; your work should be the reference that others study and pull from

Requirements:

• Proven track record designing admin, settings, or operations-facing surfaces: IAM, billing, policy management, audit and compliance UIs, org management, or similar
• Experience designing cross-product systems, not just screens, but the connective tissue between surfaces that has to stay coherent as the product grows
• Deep familiarity with developer tools, platforms, or infrastructure products; you understand the developer context even when designing primarily for the admin
• Solid grasp of qualitative and quantitative research methods; ability to synthesize across multiple evidence streams (telemetry, support, qualitative research, sales conversations) into a coherent point of view
• Fluency with prototyping and iterative development; you show thinking early and work it out in the open
• Ability to develop strong, informed opinions about new technology domains quickly, including areas like AI tooling and containerized environments you may not have designed for before
• Experience mentoring or coaching product designers; this role shapes design practice across the team, not just output within a single surface
• Empathy for the administrator as a distinct user: someone accountable to their organization, not just trying to get their own work done
• Systems thinker; you see how a permissions decision in the Admin console creates expectations in Docker Desktop, and you design with that in mind
• Strong opinions, loosely held; you advocate clearly and update gracefully when new evidence arrives
• Ability to explain complexity without flattening it; you respect the intelligence of both your users and your cross-functional partners
• Humility and a genuine learning mindset; the admin platform touches a wide surface area and no one walks in knowing all of it
• Reflective, accountable, and ownership-oriented
• AI-forward design process: you're meaningfully integrating tooling into how you work, not just using it as a talking point