Sr. Product Designer

Databricks

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About The Position

Databricks is hiring Product Designers to own design for an area of the Databricks Platform, spanning areas such as data engineering, analytics, databases, apps, and AI agents. Designers are matched to an area where their skills and interests can have the most impact. The role serves technical and business users, making powerful capabilities clear, controllable, and trustworthy for enterprise customers.

The Senior Product Designer owns their area end to end, setting design direction and carrying work from problem framing and interaction models through visual polish and shipped details. They make key design decisions, review work from designers, product managers, engineers, and AI tools, and remain hands-on in improving the work. They engage regularly with customers, select appropriate research methods, define success for key user tasks, and demonstrate improvements using research, usability testing, and product usage.

The designer uses prototypes to explore ambiguous problems, reduce risk, and align teams; influences product and engineering decisions through clear communication; and designs scoped changes directly in the codebase using AI coding agents in collaboration with engineers. They establish reusable UX principles and interaction patterns, contribute to cross-platform design-system consistency, and foster high-quality critique and decision-making with product and engineering partners.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of product design work experience.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in design, computer science, human-computer interaction, or a related field.
• Portfolio demonstrating an end-to-end design process from inception to production.
• Demonstrated ability to lead large and complex design projects and balance diverse stakeholder needs.
• Systems-thinking ability to design the big picture and break it down into increments engineering can build.
• Deep understanding of business goals, customer needs, emerging AI capabilities, and the evolving data and technology landscape.
• Self-directed and comfortable with ambiguity, including helping shape product direction when the path is undefined.
• Strong visual and interaction design work grounded in a data-driven, well-researched UX process.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing developer tools, data or analytics products, AI/ML products, or enterprise software.
• Experience designing products that bridge technical and business users.
• Experience using modern development and AI-assisted coding tools to prototype ideas, understand implementation tradeoffs, and collaborate deeply with engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Own design for an area of the Databricks Platform from problem framing through interaction design, visual polish, and shipped details.
• Set design direction and make critical design decisions for the area.
• Review work from designers, product managers, engineers, and AI tools, and improve the work hands-on.
• Stay in regular contact with customers, choose research methods suited to the decision, and turn findings into actionable insights.
• Define success for key user tasks and demonstrate improvements through usability testing, research, and product usage.
• Influence product and engineering decisions with prototypes and clear written and verbal communication.
• Use interactive prototypes to explore ambiguous problems, reduce risk, and align teams on a direction.
• Use AI coding agents to implement well-scoped design changes directly in the codebase alongside engineers.
• Create reusable UX principles, interaction patterns, and frameworks, and promote consistency through a cross-platform design system.
• Give and invite high-quality feedback and help product and engineering teams make clear decisions.

Benefits

• Databricks states that it strives to provide comprehensive benefits and perks; specific details vary by region and are available through its benefits information.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior