Sr./Staff Product Designer

Runway Ml
United States
Remote

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for product designers who lead design projects and collaborate with engineering and research teams in a remote U.S.-based setting.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with experience in web product design and a background in creative workflows
    — “Experience designing flows, prototypes and high-fidelity UI's for web products”
  • Individuals who can quickly adapt and work with unfamiliar product areas
    — “Comfortable picking up unfamiliar parts of the product rather than waiting to be assigned only what you already know”
  • Designers who have worked on AI tools or creative software with a focus on user experience
    — “Knowledge and understanding of the creative tool space”

Things to consider

  • The role requires fast iteration and close collaboration with multiple teams
    — “Experience delivering and iterating fast in close collaboration with engineering, product, and data teams”
  • Candidates may need to demonstrate artistic and creative skills beyond traditional UI design
    — “At Runway, it’s always a bonus if you have artistic and creative potential”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with AI tools like Claude Code or Cursor in your portfolio or resume
    — “Bonus points if you have experience with creating functional prototypes using AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.)”
  • Showcase your ability to maintain visual and user experience consistency across platforms
    — “Contribute to maintaining visual and user experience consistency across our products”
  • Emphasize your track record of shipping real products and working with engineering teams
    — “You should be a motivated self-starter with experience partnering with engineering teams and shipping real products”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • lead design projects
  • contribute to maintaining visual and user experience consistency
Typical background
experience designing flows and prototypes for web productsunderstanding of modern web technologies

Skills & requirements

Required

Product DesignUser Experience DesignPrototypingCollaboration

Preferred

AI ToolsCreative Skills

Stack & domain

AIProduct Design

About the role

Original posting from Runway Ml via Ashby

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.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We're looking for a passionate Product Designer to join our team and help shape the tools of the future. You should be a motivated self-starter with experience partnering with engineering teams and shipping real products. In this role, you'll work closely with product, engineering, and research to have a meaningful impact on Runway's design direction and future.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

  • Lead design projects, including new features and improvements to our mobile and web platforms
  • Produce, iterate, and prototype concepts for creative workflows
  • Collaborate closely with the engineering and product teams to suggest product and process improvements
  • Contribute to maintaining visual and user experience consistency across our products

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

  • Experience designing flows, prototypes and high-fidelity UI's for web products and strong visual design skills
  • Understanding of modern web technologies, web interactions, and usability standards
  • Experience delivering and iterating fast in close collaboration with engineering, product, and data teams
  • Ability and flexibility to iterate fast and often
  • Comfortable picking up unfamiliar parts of the product rather than waiting to be assigned only what you already know
  • Knowledge and understanding of the creative tool space
  • Bonus points if you have experience with 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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwmj4ato2kw&ab_channel=Runway 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

  • Universal World Simulator https://runwayml.com/world-simulator.html
  • GWM-1 https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1
  • Gen-4.5 https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gen-4.5
  • General World Models https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-general-world-models
  • Robotics SDK https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1#robotics-section
  • Conversational Real-time Agents https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1#avatars-section
  • Runway Studios https://runwayml.com/studios

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

Crain's https://www.crainsnewyork.com/awards/best-places-work-2023 | InHerSight https://www.inhersight.com/companies/best/city/new-york-city-ny | BuiltIn NYC https://builtin.com/awards/new-york-city/2024/best-places-to-work | INC https://www.inc.com/best-workplaces/2024

Source: Runway Ml careers (Ashby)

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