Sr./Staff Product Designer, Developer Platform

Runway ML is hiring a Sr./Staff Product Designer, Developer Platform for a remote role open to applicants in United States. It pays $220k-$290k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Runway ML.

Level's read on this job

Level rates this role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
This is listed as a remote role.
The posting mentions Claude, Cursor and Claude Code among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a lead role.
Runway ML has 47 other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

claudecursorclaude-code

We are building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science.

We believe that world models are at the frontier of progress in artificial intelligence. Language models alone won’t solve the world’s hardest problems – robotics, disease, scientific discovery. Real progress requires models that experience the world and learn from their mistakes, the same way that humans do. And this kind of trial and error can be massively accelerated when done in simulation, rather than in the real world.

World models offer the most clear path to general-purpose simulation, changing how stories are told, how scientific progress is made and how the next frontiers of humanity are reached.

Our team consists of creative, open minded, caring and ambitious people who are determined to change the world. We aspire to continuously build impossible things and our ability to do so relies on building an incredible team. If you are driven to do the same, we'd love to hear from you.

*Titles posted to our careers page are updated regularly to best advertise the role and expected seniority, but internally we have a flat titling system with two types of titles: one for individual contributors and one for people managers.

About the role

We're looking for a Product Designer to own the experience developers have building on Runway's API: the docs, the console, and the moment someone goes from reading a reference page to a working integration. You'll partner with platform engineering and product to turn a fast-moving API surface into something developers can actually pick up and use.

What you’ll do

Design the developer console and API docs experience, from account setup and API keys to usage, billing, and rate limits
Prototype and ship playground tools, quickstarts, and code samples that let developers test endpoints and outputs before writing integration code
Turn new models and endpoints into clear, well-documented interfaces as the platform ships, keeping pace with a fast-moving API surface
Collaborate closely with platform engineering to design authentication, webhooks, and other technical flows in terms developers actually understand
Contribute to visual and interaction consistency between the developer platform and the rest of Runway's product
Set the design direction for the developer platform as a whole and mentor other designers working on it

What you’ll need

Experience designing developer-facing products with a platform or tool you've shipped to point to
Comfort translating technical concepts into interfaces a developer can use without reading a manual first
Experience designing flows, prototypes and high-fidelity UI's for web products, with 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 within the company
Knowledge of the creative tool space and genuine interest in how developers build with generative AI
Experience in creating functional prototypes using AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.)
At Runway, it's always a bonus if you have artistic and creative potential (particularly skills with video/audio editing, icon/typography design, illustration, etc.)

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Working at Runway

Great things come from great teams. We’d love to hear from you.

We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply.

More about Runway

We're excited to be recognized as a best place to work:

Crain's | InHerSight | BuiltIn NYC | INC

How we rate this

Sr./Staff Product Designer, Developer Platform at Runway ML rates 66 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Sr./Staff Product Designer, Developer Platform is an open job at Runway ML.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The listed salary is $220k-$290k a year.
The role is based in Remote and is marked remote.
The job was posted on August 31, 2023.
Seniority: lead.
Applications are handled by Runway ML. Apply on Runway ML

Prepare for this job

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

ClaudeCursorClaude Code

Questions you could be asked

What's a project where you used Claude hands-on?
Walk me through how you've used Cursor in your day-to-day work.
What are the limits of Claude Code that you've run into, and how did you work around them?
Describe a typical day in a role like this one: which parts run through AI directly?
If you removed AI from this role, what would be left, and how do you decide what still needs a human?

Adapt your resume

List these exact terms on your resume: Claude, Cursor, and Claude Code. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.

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