Why Cast AI?

Cast AI is the leading Application Performance Automation (APA) platform, enabling customers to cut cloud costs, improve performance, and boost productivity – automatically.

Built originally for Kubernetes, Cast AI goes beyond cost and observability by delivering real-time, autonomous optimization across any cloud environment. The platform continuously analyzes workloads, rightsizes resources, and rebalances clusters without manual intervention, ensuring applications run faster, more reliably, and more efficiently.

Headquartered in Miami, Florida, Cast AI has employees in more than 32 countries worldwide and supports some of the world’s most innovative teams running their applications on all major cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Over 2,100 companies already rely on Cast - from BMW and Akamai to Hugging Face and NielsenIQ.

What’s next? Backed by our $108M Series C, we’re doubling down on making APA the new standard for DevOps and MLOps, and everything in between.

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to help transform and scale our product while delivering exceptional user experiences. At Cast AI, we foster open collaboration in a flat structure, giving you the opportunity to work with top-tier professionals and shape key product components. This role comes with exciting challenges - if you’re ready to make an impact in a dynamic environment, we’d love to have you on board!

Designing for Cast AI isn’t just about aesthetics, it’s about tackling technical challenges and understanding how things are wired at the backend. With a platform built for DevOps and engineers, technical awareness is crucial. To create intuitive experiences, you’ll need to immerse yourself in the technology, learning how complex systems interact and making them more accessible through thoughtful design.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in product design
• Ability to understand and interpret API documentation and effectively design interfaces that can interact with backend systems
• Strong curiosity and enthusiasm for exploring new technologies, including AI
• Comfortable working alongside developers and can articulate design concepts and decisions in a language that is clear to technical stakeholders
• Collaborative nature, enjoying teamwork and actively participating in collaborative ideation sessions with colleagues and partners
• Proven experience across all design phases, including conducting user research, creating wireframes, developing prototypes, crafting visual designs, and conducting usability testing
• Understanding of technical capabilities, workflows, and constraints
• Collaborative nature, enjoying teamwork and actively participating in collaborative ideation sessions with colleagues and partners
• Proficient in written and spoken English

Portfolio Requirement:
Please include a portfolio with your application, highlighting your design expertise and experience in delivering design work for SaaS platforms, data visualization tools, or similar data-heavy applications. This will help us understand your design capabilities and achievements.

Responsibilities:

• Identify new product improvement opportunities, define user problems, and develop effective solutions to address them.
• Continuously learn and adapt to industry standards, best practices, and the evolving landscape of developer-focused technologies to enhance design expertise.
• Address complex technical design challenges within the product and support the development process.
• Write comprehensive documents to describe solutions and implementation details.
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment, responding agilely to evolving project requirements and tight deadlines
• Conduct research activities like discovery sessions and usability studies to prototype and iterate on design solutions
• Develop user personas and journey maps based on research findings and data insights
• Collaborate closely with design, engineering, product, and sales teams to support the development process of bringing designs to life.
• Provide and seek feedback from fellow designers and cross-functional team members to foster continuous improvement.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary (€4,000 - €6,500 gross, depending on the level of experience)
• Enjoy a flexible, remote-first global environment.
• Collaborate with a global team of cloud experts and innovators, passionate about pushing the boundaries of Kubernetes technology.
• Equity options.
• Get quick feedback with a fast-paced workflow. Most feature projects are completed in 1 to 4 weeks.
• Spend 10% of your work time on personal projects or self-improvement.
• Learning budget for professional and personal development - including access to international conferences and courses that elevate your skills.
• Annual hackathon to spark new ideas and strengthen team bonds.
• Team-building budget and company events to connect with your colleagues.
• Equipment budget to ensure you have everything you need.
• Extra days off to help maintain a healthy work-life balance.

Recruitment process:

• Initial screening with Talent Acquisition
• Interview with Design Manager
• Home task assignment
• Case study review and workshop with the Design Team & Product Manager
• Final closing interview

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