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CVP of Design

SonarSource · Austin, Texas · On-site

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About SonarSource

Sonar is the independent AI code verification platform trusted by 7M+ developers & organizations to help build secure, reliable software with confidence. Backed by General Catalyst and Insight.

About the role

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.

What they're looking for

  • 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
More about this role

Who is 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.

Integrating seamlessly with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, and Devin, we help over 75% of the Fortune 100 build trusted, reliable, compliant software. Customers who use Sonar are 44% less likely to report an outage due to AI-generated code.

We believe code verification is the critical missing link in the Agent-Centric Development Cycle (AC/DC). Industry giants like Nvidia, ServiceNow, Booking.com, Goldman Sachs, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Company.count on us to provide independent, explainable, consistent review and governance of their AI-generated code via products like:

SonarQube: The world’s leading AI code review and verification platform.

SonarQube Foundation Agent: Currently topping the leaderboards for agentic software repair.

SonarSweep & Sonar Context Augmentation: Providing the enterprise-grade context and constraints agents need to be truly effective.

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