Sonar
Cvp Of Design
Overview
Sonar is looking for a CVP of Design to own the end-to-end design vision and execution across our product portfolio. Reporting to the CPO, this is Sonar's most senior design leadership role, responsible for setting design strategy, scaling a high-performing global design organization, and ensuring our products deliver an exceptional, cohesive experience for developers and enterprise customers alike.
About Sonar
Sonar is driving the future of agent-centric software development. As the leader in AI code review and verification, we solve a critical problem: ensuring that software generated by AI-assisted developers or autonomous agents is reliable, secure, and maintainable.
Requirements & Eligibility
- 7+ years of management experience in product design, UX, or a related field, with a proven track record of leading and scaling teams globally
- Demonstrated success in end-to-end product design leadership, including visual design, interaction design, workflows, strategic product thinking, and platform evolution
- Deep expertise in design systems and UX best practices, including experience designing for developer tools, API based tools, or similar technical/complex products
- Good understanding of the agentic domain and how it shapes product and design decisions
- Experience defining design strategy that drives measurable business outcomes
- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across executive leadership, cross-functional teams, and global stakeholders
- Proven ability to mentor and develop design talent, fostering a high-performing, creative, and inclusive global design culture
- Deep understanding of customer needs and market trends, with experience engaging directly with users and industry leaders to translate insights into actionable, high-impact design solutions
Key Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end product design vision, including visual design, interaction design, workflows, and overall platform evolution across Sonar's product line
- Define and drive a design strategy that ties directly to measurable business outcomes, working with Product and Engineering leadership to prioritize investments. Track and report on design's impact on key business and product metrics
- Build, scale, and lead a global design organization, including hiring, mentoring, and developing design talent to foster a high-performing, creative, and inclusive team culture
- Champion and evolve Sonar's design systems and UX best practices, ensuring consistency and quality across a complex, technical, developer-facing product suite
- Guide the design approach for agentic and AI-driven features, ensuring the team understands emerging patterns and best practices in this space
- Engage directly with customers, users, and industry leaders to gather insights, and translate those insights into actionable, high-impact design solutions
- Represent design at the executive level, communicating strategy, trade-offs, and progress to executive leadership and cross-functional, global stakeholders
- Partner with Product Management and Engineering to ensure design is embedded early in the product development process, not bolted on at the end
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