Docker
Director, Product Design
$206K–$295K
United States · Remote · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
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About the job
Leads Docker’s product design team and shapes experiences across its GUI and CLI products, combining team development with hands-on design and prototyping.
What you'll do
- Lead and grow the product design team; set and uphold design quality through critique and personal craft.
- Partner with product, engineering, design engineering, and the design system team to deliver clear experiences for technically complex products.
- Shape the team’s use of AI tools, with human judgment guiding the work.
What they ask for
- Experience leading a product design team of comparable size through change and growing designers from mid-level through senior and staff.
- Close partnership with design engineers and engineering leaders, with the ability to engage in technical decisions affecting user experience.
- Hands-on product design skills, including prototyping and detailed critique of spacing, states, motion, and copy; show work from the last year.
- Daily use of AI tools, with examples of use and judgment about when outputs need improvement; experience designing technically complex products.
Nice to have
- Led design for AI-powered or agent products, including experiences beyond a graphical interface; designed for developer-led adoption and complex enterprise customers.
- Can prototype in front-end code, such as React or TypeScript.
Pay
$206,500 – $295,000 USD base salary
Tools
React, TypeScript
AI focus
Shape how the design team uses AI tools, keeping human judgment central while using tools to speed up work; daily use of AI tools is expected.
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