Principal UX Designer

2 Months ago • All levels • UI/UX Design

Job Summary

Job Description

Sonar is a company that helps prevent code quality and security issues, enhances developer productivity with AI, and improves the developer experience. They analyze all code to ensure secure, reliable, and maintainable applications. Sonar is used by millions of developers and organizations globally, including major corporations. They are committed to developing great products and fostering a strong culture based on positivity, dedication, thoughtfulness, empathy, and passion. Sonar operates with deliberate decision-making, a sense of urgency, and high efficiency, working as 'One Team'. The company is seeking a Principal UX Designer to shape the user experience of their platform, influencing processes, tools, and frameworks to deliver scalable and engaging product experiences. The role involves driving problem discovery, pairing with others on business-related issues, and supporting product development stages from definition to evaluation and implementation.
Must have:
  • Interaction design
  • Systems thinking
  • Qualitative and quantitative research
  • Information Architecture
Perks:
  • Robust time-off allocations
  • Company pension contributions
  • Discretionary company growth bonus
  • Sustainable mobility options

Job Details

Who is Sonar?

Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it — your internal team, genAI, or third parties — resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by +7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T-Mobile.

We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture.  We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company, users, each other, and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity, dedication, thoughtfulness, empathy, and passion daily. 

We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time, we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly. 

And lastly, we are highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.

At Sonar, CODE is more than just an acronym – it's a mindset that defines daily operations. 

Why You Should Apply: 

At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better, faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they don’t. Our solutions don’t just solve symptoms of problems – we help fix issues at the source – for all code, whether it's developer-written, AI-generated, or from third parties.

We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day, work on a product they are proud of, love what they do, and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community, we’re all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better, faster.

The Impact You Will Have:

Ask a friend or colleague developer about Sonar or SonarQube. They have heard from us and will likely use the products. This is how significant our impact on the tech industry is.

The UX craft has been gradually evolving at Sonar, and there is still much to do. In 2023, UX benchmarked a solid stage 3 of the NNG maturity model at Sonar, with a strong appetite to evolve from there in the next few years. We hold ourselves to high standards, and we are looking for invested, resilient, and humble professionals to join us for the journey ahead.

At this level, the expectations are high. Your knowledge in UX is a reference, you deliver with predictable cadency and continuously coach others on different topics. You lead through vision adoption and execute a mandate. Focused on bringing specialist understanding/knowledge to a topic and driving project execution to closure. You are used to set an example, being a thought leader, or bringing thought leaders to the topic. 

You will aim for long-term objectives and own immediate delivery. Takes responsibility, and owns problems fully. Develops self by continuous self-evaluation, is clear on strengths and weaknesses, and understands how to influence others. Will seek out subject-matter experts to get the right solution developed.

You will work in a tech-heavy environment with engineers and product managers in a cross-functional trio setup. You embrace and navigate the complexity of software development, dealing with terminology and taxonomy likely beyond anything you have ever faced, and be expected to deliver product experiences to one of the most knowledgeable, pragmatic and engaged crafts in the digital space besides your software engineers.

As the first UX copywriter in UX for this level, you should have a good idea of what’s involved as autonomy and responsibility.
You will be part of a small group, alongside Design ops and Design system that supports UX craft at Sonar. 

What You Will Do Daily:

  • Connect with leadership and plan global projects that will drive the direction of our platform’s experience.
  • Shape the craft by influencing the processes, tools, and frameworks to empower our products with the most usable and engaging product experience, in a scalable manner.
  • You will identify new potential global topics by driving problem discovery and pair with others on business-related problem discovery.
  • You will drive various stages in product development to map possible initiatives to define, plan and evaluate, and work with others on solutions.
  • You will support the teams during implementation of changes and improvements in the product.
  • You will drive the assessment of product changes once it is out in the wild, measuring the impact and success of it versus what was initially planned.
  • You will drive or support other functions in breaking down objectives into feasible, valuable and timely delivery plans and roadmaps.

The Experience You Will Need:

  • Interaction design
  • Systems thinking
  • Qualitative and quantitative research
  • Information Architecture
  • Systems thinking

Why You Will Love It Here:

  • Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!). 
  • Great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly while still being passionate leaders in our domains. 
  • We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week for those located near our office locations; some locations such as Dubai, India, Japan and Australia operate fully remotely.
  • We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our success. In an ever-changing industry, new skills are necessary, and we're happy to help our team acquire them.
  • As the leader in our field, our products and services are as strong as our internal team members.
  • We embrace transparency with regular meetings, cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization.

Benefits of Working With Sonar:

  • We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations with 27 PTO days for our employees based out of the Geneva region, plus additional days based on seniority and circumstances.
  • We contribute 60% of the total cost for your pension; 13.5% to 15.5% of your base salary for savings; 2% for risk.
  • Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually.  
  • Commuting:Sustainable mobility options, including carpooling and the refund of 60% of the annual transportation subscription.
  • Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities.
  • We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.


We Value Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

At Sonar, we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures.

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the precise results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.

Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.  

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