Senior UX Designer

Sonar Source

| London, United Kingdom (On Site) | Full Time | 10 months ago
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Job Summary

Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues, enhances developer productivity with AI, and improves developer experience. They analyze all code for secure, reliable, and maintainable applications, supporting over 30 programming languages. Sonar is used by millions of developers and thousands of organizations globally. The company values commitment, obsession, positivity, dedication, thoughtfulness, empathy, passion, deliberation, clarity, and effectiveness. As a Senior UX Designer, you will identify user problems, drive solution discovery with product managers, and autonomously manage solution design and implementation. You will work within a tech-heavy environment, collaborating with engineers and product managers in a cross-functional trio setup, navigating complex software development terminology to deliver product experiences. The role requires managing workload, raising risks, focusing on team needs, and operating within existing frameworks. You will assess feature impact after deployment and support product managers in roadmap planning.

Must Have

  • Interaction design
  • UI Design
  • Systems thinking
  • Information Architecture
  • Quantitative and Qualitative research
  • Group facilitation
  • Prototyping

Perks & Benefits

  • 100% coverage of employee premiums for medical, dental, and Employee Assistance Programs
  • Vision benefit
  • 28 days of annual leave
  • Employer matching contribution pension scheme
  • Gymflex discounts
  • Discretionary Company Growth Bonus
  • Public transport reimbursement
  • Annual kick-off event

Job Description

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 are looking for invested, resilient, and humble professionals to join us for the journey ahead.

You are not new to UX, but you know there is much to learn. You will follow a set plan, and you manage your workload. You will deliver on the agenda while diligently raising risks and obstacles to achieve objectives. Focuses on the company and team's needs and contributes at a team and squad level. While in this position, you are expected to operate within the existing work framework.

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.

What You Will Do Daily:

  • You will identify new potential problems for users by driving user-related problem discovery and pair with Product managers to support business-related problem discovery.
  • You will drive Solution discovery stages in product development to map possible solutions, and constraints to prepare the best options for users that Engineering can actually build, involving the product trio.
  • You will autonomously drive the solution design to define, plan, evaluate and deliver a solution that fits the entire product experience and properly solves the problem..
  • You will autonomously support the the implementation of such features and improvements in the product, by continuously working with engineering while together you bring our solutions to life.
  • You will drive the assessment of a feature once it is out in the wild, measuring the impact and success of it versus what was initially planned.
  • You will participate and support Product managers in breaking down objectives into feasible, valuable and timely delivery plans and roadmaps.

The Experience You Will Need:

  • Interaction design
  • UI Design
  • Systems thinking
  • Information Architecture
  • Quantitative and Qualitative research
  • Group facilitation
  • Prototyping

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:

  • 100% coverage of employee premiums through BUPA for medical, dental, and Employee Assistance Programs
  • Vision benefit through Sun Life which Includes an annual vision exam and vision hardware benefits 
  • We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations with 28 days of annual leave for our employees based out of our London hub, plus additional days based on seniority and circumstances.
  • Employer matching contribution pension scheme for up to 5%. 
  • Gymflex: savings of up to 40% on memberships at over 4k gyms, leisure centres, yoga and pilates studios, health clubs and boot camps across the UK.
  • Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually.  
  • Commuting:Public transport reimbursement of 60% for annual 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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