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About the Role
Sonar is seeking a CVP of Design to lead the end-to-end design vision and execution across its product portfolio. This senior leadership role reports to the CPO and is responsible for setting design strategy, scaling a global design organization, and ensuring exceptional product experiences for developers and enterprise customers. The CVP will collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Executive Leadership to translate customer needs and market trends into design decisions that drive business impact.
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.
Requirements
- 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.
Skills
- Visual design
- Interaction design
- Workflows
- Platform evolution
- Design strategy
- Design systems
- UX best practices
- Agentic domain understanding
- Collaboration
- Communication
Location
- London
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 7+ years of management experience
About the Company
- Sonar is driving the future of agent-centric software development as the leader in AI code review and verification.
- We solve the critical problem of ensuring AI-generated software is reliable, secure, and maintainable.
- Sonar integrates with leading AI development tools and is used by over 75% of the Fortune 100.
- Our products include SonarQube, SonarQube Foundation Agent, SonarSweep & Sonar Context Augmentation.
- We operate globally with hubs in Austin, Bochum, Dubai, Geneva, London, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington D.C.
- Our team operates with a mindset of CODE: Committed, Obsessed, Deliberate, Effective.
- With over $400M in revenue and profitable growth, we are building the backbone of the AI software revolution.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
- If you need any accommodation, please reach out to us at hiring@sonarsource.com.
- All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the 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.