Skill
Prototyping
Software Development and Engineering Practices
Prototyping is the practice of building an early, simplified version of a product, interface, or system to test ideas, validate assumptions, and gather feedback before full-scale development. It is used across disciplines like product design, UX/UI design, software engineering, and industrial design, ranging from low-fidelity paper sketches to interactive digital mockups or functional hardware models.
Prototyping in the job market
Last checked October 28, 2026
- Open roles
- 57
- Employers
- 37
- Median pay
- $200,000
- Disclose pay
- 72%
on Career App
hiring for it
from 41 roles
of these roles
Open roles requiring Prototyping (57)
Product Designer
Patreon
New York, NY · $190,500 – $286,000 · Remote
Patreon is seeking a Product Designer to craft the experiences that help creators and fans connect on their platform. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex product problems end-to-end, from early exploration through launch, while collaborating closely with product and engineering teams.
Listed on Patreon’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Senior Product Manager, Retail Publisher Partnerships
Ibotta
Full-time · Denver, CO · $128,000 – $153,000 · Remote
Ibotta is hiring a Senior Product Manager to develop products for retail partners in their Performance Network, focusing on helping brands and retailers optimize digital promotions. This role suits someone experienced in B2B product management who enjoys working directly with business customers, using AI tools to build prototypes, and making decisions in ambiguous problem spaces.
Listed on Ibotta’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Principal Product Designer, AI-Native Product Experiences
Intuit
Mountain View, CA · $239,000 – $323,000
This principal-level role shapes how Intuit designs AI-powered financial software experiences at scale, balancing innovation with craft as AI tools reshape the design process. You'll define the quality bar for AI-native design, mentor senior designers, and guide strategy across complex product ecosystems serving millions of small businesses.
Listed on Intuit’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Director, Product Design
Motive
San Francisco, CA · $225,000 – $295,000
Motive seeks a strategic design leader to guide product design for their fleet and workforce management platforms, working with cross-functional teams to deliver user-centric experiences for fleet managers and drivers. This role combines hands-on design work with team leadership, emphasizing AI integration, design systems, and the ability to influence product strategy at a scale serving nearly 100,000 customers.
Listed on Motive’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Principal Product Designer, Brand and Experience (Contract, Hands-On)
OfferUp
Contract · California · $100 – $165 / hour
OfferUp seeks a hands-on product designer to reshape the app's interface and user experience around their brand vision of local possibility and trust. You'll translate strategy into concrete product improvements across core flows, working directly in design tools and collaborating with product and engineering to ship and measure impact.
Listed on OfferUp’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Applied AI, Research Engineer
Menlo Ventures Portfolio
Full-time · New York, NY · $300,000 – $400,000
This role bridges Anthropic's AI research and customer needs by embedding with product teams to validate new capabilities, build demos and evaluations, and translate field insights back to inform product development. It suits experienced technical professionals who enjoy moving between deep technical work and cross-functional collaboration, with a proven ability to learn new domains quickly and communicate complex topics clearly.
Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Senior Packaging Designer, Beauty
SKIMS
Los Angeles, CA
SKIMS Beauty is hiring a Senior Packaging Designer to create innovative and functional packaging for their new beauty line, translating the brand's aesthetic into distinctive physical products. The role combines creative vision with technical knowledge of beauty packaging materials, manufacturing, and production across multiple simultaneous product launches.
Listed on SKIMS’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Product Designer, Marketplace
Vercel
Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $172,000 – $258,000
You'll design the Vercel Marketplace and Connect platforms, shaping how developers and AI agents discover, configure, and integrate external services. This role suits experienced product designers comfortable with technical complexity, independent ownership, and working hands-on with engineers to solve ambiguous, multi-sided ecosystem problems.
Listed on Vercel’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Senior Product Designer (Full Remote - Europe)
EverAI
Europe · €75,000 – €95,000 · Remote
Join a rapidly scaling AI platform as a Senior Product Designer responsible for creating experiences across conversational AI, character creation, monetization, and emerging features. This role suits experienced designers who thrive in fast-moving environments, have strong product instincts, and want to shape consumer AI products at scale.
Listed on EverAI’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Director of Product Design
Vanta
Remote U.S. · $275,000 – $323,000
Lead design for Vanta's risk management product area, directing a team of designers to create intuitive workflows for complex enterprise security and compliance use cases. This role suits experienced design leaders who have shipped B2B SaaS products and can partner cross-functionally to translate strategy into cohesive customer experiences.
Listed on Vanta’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Asked for alongside Prototyping
Measured from the 57 open roles that name Prototyping — not from a curated list.
- Design Systems24 roles42.1%
- Figma21 roles36.8%
- Interaction Design21 roles36.8%
- User Research18 roles31.6%
- Wireframing11 roles19.3%
- Usability Testing9 roles15.8%
- Data Analysis8 roles14.0%
- Information Architecture8 roles14.0%
What employers state they pay
Median
$200,000
Middle half
$165,000 – $260,000
From 41 of 57 open roles — the 72% that publish a range, annualized to USD. Only some employers state pay, and the ones that do skew to California and New York, where the law requires it.
Who employers are hiring
- Entry2%
- Mid20%
- Senior48%
- Lead / Staff / Principal28%
- Management2%
From 54 roles whose posting states a level.
Where Prototyping roles are
Among the 39 of 57 open roles we could place on a map.
Roles that use Prototyping
Employers hiring for Prototyping
37 in total, most open roles first.
Related skills
Curated neighbors in the taxonomy, whether or not employers ask for them together.