Sr./Staff Product Designer, Developer Platform

The role

You will own the developer experience for Runway's API, including docs and the console. You will partner with platform engineering and product to design interfaces, prototypes, and technical flows.

What you will do

• Design the developer console and API docs experience
• Prototype and ship playground tools, quickstarts, and code samples
• Turn new models and endpoints into clear, well-documented interfaces
• Collaborate with platform engineering to design authentication and webhooks
• Contribute to visual and interaction consistency
• Set the design direction for the developer platform
• Mentor other designers working on the platform

Required qualifications

• Experience designing developer-facing products with a platform or tool you've shipped to
• Comfort translating technical concepts into interfaces
• Experience designing flows, prototypes and high-fidelity UI's for web products
• Strong visual design skills
• Experience delivering and iterating fast in close collaboration with engineering teams
• Ability and flexibility to iterate fast and often
• Passion for working with small teams, establishing a design culture, and creating a design-centric process
• Knowledge of the creative tool space and interest in how developers build with generative AI
• Experience in creating functional prototypes using AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.)

Nice to have

• artistic and creative potential (particularly skills with video/audio editing, icon/typography design, illustration, etc.)

About the company

Runway is building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science. The team aims to build world models to advance robotics, disease research, and scientific discovery.