Senior Product Designer

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.

Core values that hold us all together:

PRACTICE CUSTOMER OBSESSION. Focus on the customer journey and work backwards. Strive to deliver customer value and continuously solve customer problems. Listen to customer feedback, act, and iterate to improve customer experience.

LEAD. Take ownership and lead through action. Think and act on behalf of the entire company to build long-term value across team boundaries.

DEVELOP AND HIRE THE BEST. Strive to raise the performance bar by continuously investing in yourself, the team and by hiring the best possible candidates for every position. Drive towards personal development and professional growth, and mentor others to raise the collective bar.

EXPECT AND ADVOCATE CHANGE. Strive to innovate and accept the inevitable change that comes with innovation. Constantly welcome new ideas and opinions. Share insights responsibly with unwavering openness, honesty, and respect. Once a path is chosen, be ready to disagree and commit to a direction.

Role overview

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.

In this position, you’ll:

• 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 the vision 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
• Contribute to the design process and actively participate in developing and maintaining our design system.
• 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.

Requirements

• 3+ 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
• 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
• Some experience in developing and maintaining design systems
• Understanding of technical capabilities, workflows, and constraints
• Collaborative nature, enjoying teamwork and actively participating in collaborative ideation sessions with colleagues and partners
• Expertise in popular design tools such as Figma (or Sketch, Adobe XD, and other design tools)
• 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.

What's in it for you?

• Team of highly skilled professionals to work with and learn from
• Impact and visibility. We’re still a relatively small company, every contribution counts
• Flat hierarchy. Our organization is flat, getting in touch with the CEO or CTO is a common practice here
• Short feedback loop. We are obsessed with customer satisfaction. We ship features fast and gets instant feedback. Feature projects tend to be completed in 1 to 4 weeks, depending on the scope
• Flexible working location and hours
• Skin in the game. Every engineering member gets stock options of the company
• Focus time: minimum overhead of meetings, bureaucracy &, etc.
• Monthly salary up to €6500 (gross) depending on the level of experience
• 10% self-improvement time for personal projects.