Senior Product Designer

Senior Product Designer

Reporting to the Head of Design, as a Senior Product Designer you'll work to redefine how we represent and interact with complex concepts in one of the most impactful technologies of our time. You'll be part of a pioneering design team, working closely with stakeholders across product, engineering, research, and marketing to deliver world-class products. You'll use your experience to foster a culture of design excellence, actively contribute to the design process, and support the growth of your teammates.

This role is focused on Boulder Opal, our AI-powered quantum control software helping quantum researchers, hardware vendors, and quantum computing owners alike to build and access superior quantum computers. By combining advanced quantum physics with new forms of AI, Boulder Opal enables teams to design, automate, and deploy control solutions that improve performance and accelerate development. You'll work across user interfaces, APIs, CLIs, and technical documentation to shape the full product experience, bringing clarity and usability to a highly technical domain.

What You'll Do:

• Navigate uncertainty: Drive discovery at the early stages of product definition, using your UX expertise to bring clarity to complex user needs.
• Prioritize the user: Engage in the design process end to end, from research and wireframing to prototyping and testing, with a consistent focus on usability and trust.
• Collaborate at all levels: Work closely with cross-functional teams to shape product direction and ensure design is tightly integrated from definition to delivery.
• Build systems: Contribute to the evolution of our design system and apply systems thinking to create scalable, consistent design solutions.
• Set the standard: Lead the conceptualization and execution of design solutions for technically complex products, helping define best-in-class experiences in a new category.
• Shape the experience: Design experiences and interactions that span user interfaces, APIs, CLIs, and documentation, ensuring usability and coherence throughout.
• Advocate for quality: Champion a culture of design excellence through thoughtful execution, peer mentorship, and a shared commitment to high standards.
• Other duties within the Employee's skills and experience, or with reasonable training.

Ideally You'll Have:

• 5+ years of product design or related industry experience
• A strong portfolio showcasing your ability to tackle complex design challenges across systems, workflows, and technical products
• Experience designing for developer-facing tools, infrastructure software, or data platforms, especially in domains like ML/AI, or dev tooling
• Familiarity designing for developers across a range of surfaces, from user interfaces to APIs, CLIs, and documentation
• Strong discovery and facilitation skills, you know how to engage stakeholders and structure collaboration to create aligned outcomes
• Experience working with and contributing to scalable design systems
• Clear, confident communication, able to explain decisions, structure ideas, and work across disciplines with ease
• A focus on quality and a desire to help shape a high-performing, thoughtful design team

Q-CTRL aims to bring together cross-functional teams from many different backgrounds to help achieve our goals - we strongly encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements mentioned in the job posting.