Docker - Staff Product Designer (Admin)

• 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 • Attributes We Look For • 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 • What to Expect • What to Expect • First 30 Days • First 30 Days • Complete onboarding and develop a working understanding of how Docker's products connect from an admin perspective: what an administrator can control today, where the gaps are, and how the pieces are supposed to fit together • Audit existing design work across the Admin console and adjacent surfaces: what has shipped, what hasn't, and why • Shadow customer and sales calls to build a ground-level view of how administrators actually manage their organizations and where the friction lives • By week three, be sharing early thinking with the team: not polished, just visible • By end of month one, have a working point of view on where the admin platform experience most needs to improve • First 60 Days • First 60 Days • Build active working relationships across engineering, product, sales, security, and legal: the full coalition that admin platform design requires • Be actively designing and shipping. Show up in critiques, stay in flow with PM and engineering partners • Establish your agentic workflow scaffolding: define how you're using AI tooling for prototyping, synthesis, and iteration, and get in sync with how the broader design team works • Crystallize a design-led point of view on the admin platform's direction and share it with your manager and team • One-Year Outlook • One-Year Outlook • Fully own the design of the Admin Platform end to end: settings, IAM, billing, policy surfaces, and the integration patterns that connect them to the rest of Docker's products • Serve as the design authority on what it means for a new Docker product or feature to integrate with the admin platform in a way that feels coherent and trustworthy • Act as a strategic thought partner to leadership on how Docker builds and maintains administrator trust as the product grows • Feed insight and craft back to the broader design team; show what staff-level ownership looks like in motion • By year one the Admin Platform experience should be demonstrably clearer, more coherent, and more trustworthy than on day one, and that should be traceable to your presence on the team • Docker does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.