• Develop a deep understanding of Sonatype’s multi-product developer platform, personas, and core Jobs To Be Done.

• Work closely with PMs and engineers to co-create user flows and experience direction - UX leads the thinking, but the outputs are created and iterated on together, not in isolation.

• Map complex IA, developer workflows, permissions models, and multi-product interactions into clear, intuitive experience patterns.

• Create user, product, and system flow diagrams in Miro that reflect real constraints, technical realities, and team input.

• Shape conceptual designs and UX architectures for new features and continuous, iterative improvements.

• Build coded UX prototypes using Claude Code, VS Code, GitHub workflows, and front-end fundamentals (HTML/CSS/JS/React).

• Ensure your prototypes are structured enough that AI tools can generate engineering specs, scope definitions, and implementation requirements directly from your code diffs.

• Conduct lightweight, practical research (interviews, surveys, UAT, quick validation) when needed - and know when to proceed without research to keep momentum.

• Collaborate early and often to align constraints, scope, design direction, and technical feasibility.

• Facilitate iterative design and exploration sessions with PMs and engineers; guide direction without owning every artifact yourself.

• Provide clear, structured UX reviews and guidance across product teams working on related areas.

• Coach engineers on UX fundamentals, usability, accessibility, and interaction patterns when it relates to a project - raising the UX baseline across teams.

• Contribute high-fidelity coded prototypes that solve customer problems in clear, easy ways while working with our design system and existing user flows

• Support the UX Guild’s goal of improving UX quality and alignment across teams without introducing heavy processes.

• Help evolve our AI-accelerated design workflows and strengthen our design system alignment.

• Your prototypes aren’t just illustrative — they behave like real product experiences and provide enough structure for AI tools to generate engineering specs, scope, and implementation requirements directly from your code diffs.

• Teams ship better UX because your influence is pragmatic, collaborative, and grounded in technical realities.

• You consistently transform complex developer and AppSec workflows into clear, coherent experiences.

• You make smart calls about when to research and when to ship.

• You adapt fluidly to evolving tools, processes, and AI-assisted workflows.

• You communicate clearly with engineers, PMs, and stakeholders - zooming in or out as needed.

Experience & Background

• Significant experience designing enterprise software or developer platforms (typically 10–15+ years), with the maturity to influence across multiple product teams.

• Experience collaborating deeply with engineers; hybrid UX/engineering backgrounds are a strong plus.

Research Judgment

• Skilled at lightweight research (interviews, surveys, usability tests, UAT).

• Able to choose the right level of research for the moment — avoiding slow, academic processes.

Technical Fluency

You don’t need to be a full-stack engineer, but you must be comfortable building working UX prototypes:

• HTML/CSS/JavaScript

• React familiarity

• GitHub, version control

• IDE + AI code editor pairings

• Strong interest in expanding your code prototyping skills and leveraging AI to accelerate them

Core Strengths

• Strong UX judgment, especially in complex technical domains.

• Ability to simplify aggressively within real constraints.

• Collaborative, positive, and non-defensive - thrives in evolving workflows.

• Clear communicator who works well with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• AI Mindset: Curious, experimental, and excited to incorporate AI into design workflows. Comfortable using AI for structure, exploration, prototyping, and iteration.

• Fluency in English - verbal and written communications

• Your first instinct is to open Figma to figure out what the team should build.

• You prefer long discovery cycles, polished spec packages, or designing every state before engineering begins.

• Code-based prototyping feels uncomfortable or outside your identity as a designer.
  You want to “own UX” rather than collaborate with engineers who share UX responsibility.

• You need structured process, predictable phases, or linear design workflows.
  You feel frustrated by changing tools, evolving methods, or AI-assisted workflows.

• Influence UX across a multi-product developer platform used at massive scale.

• Prototype in real code environments and shape the future of design/engineering collaboration.

• Help refine an AI-accelerated design workflow that’s growing and evolving quickly.

• Work at a company that genuinely cares about better user experiences

• Contribute to a collaborative UX Guild culture focused on quality, not ceremony.

• Solve deep, technical UX challenges - not marketing flows or surface-level UI.

If you’re a UX Designer or UX Engineer who thinks in systems, builds in code, collaborates closely with engineers, and gets energy from evolving how design is done - this is the role for you.