Senior Product Designer

Apollo helps engineering teams combine many APIs into a single graph. Netflix, The New York Times, and Walmart build on us. We created GraphQL federation and maintain the tools most teams use to work with it.

What consumes an API is changing. Increasingly it’s an agent acting on someone’s behalf, which needs a graph it can traverse and controls over what it can reach. That’s the next thing we’re building.

What you’ll do Apollo assigns designers to our highest-leverage problems, and priorities are set quarterly. Current areas include developer onboarding, our core product interfaces, the design system, and emerging agentic products.

You’ll work alongside our Product Design Team and Head of Design, owning well-scoped problem areas end to end: understand the users and the system behind them, shape a v1 with engineering, and ship polished, usable experiences. You’ll bring a point of view to your work and help raise the craft bar across the team.

Who you are

Minimum requirements

- 5+ years designing software, with a focus on product or UX design.

- A portfolio of shipped work.

- Experience designing complex products, ideally for technical users: developer tools, infrastructure, data, security, identity, or APIs.

- A track record of owning features or workflows end to end, from discovery through shipping.

- Strong visual design, interaction, and craft skills.

- Comfortable working through ambiguity within a defined problem area.

Preferred qualifications

- Have shipped developer-focused experiences, API tooling, or agent experiences.

- Experience contributing to a design system, and knowing when to work outside it.

- Use AI tools to prototype and explore ideas faster.

- An engineering background, or comfort working in code.

- Curious about developer tools and AI agents.

- Equally comfortable thinking through a whole user journey and sweating the interaction details.

ABOUT APOLLO

Apollo helps teams build, operate, and scale the graphs that power modern applications. If you’ve streamed a show, booked a trip, or read the news online, there’s a good chance Apollo was working quietly behind the scenes. We support some of the largest and most sophisticated GraphQL platforms in the world.

But we’re not here just to maintain the status quo. Apollo is redefining how software teams build and ship - bringing clarity, speed, and leverage to increasingly complex systems. Our platform gives teams a single, coherent way to connect clients, services, and now AI-powered experiences, without drowning in endpoints or bespoke integrations.

Just as importantly, we’re building a company where ambitious people can do the best work of their careers. That means meaningful ownership, smart teammates, and tackling hard problems that actually matter. If you like moving fast, thinking deeply, and helping shape what comes next, you’ll feel right at home here.