Senior Product Designer
About The Position
Fivetran and dbt Labs are bringing together their products and teams to help organizations move, transform, and trust their data. The Senior Product Designer will shape product experiences for business and technical users, investigate how users work, and combine analytics and user research to identify problems and opportunities. The role involves leading solutions to complex user problems, setting direction with cross-functional partners, and connecting design decisions to customer and business outcomes. The designer will own end-to-end design for product areas, translate complex technical requirements into intuitive workflows, and create flows, interaction models, and prototypes. The role also includes designing AI-powered and AI-assisted experiences, establishing patterns for trust, transparency, control, feedback, and recovery, and using AI tools throughout the design process. Candidates should demonstrate strong storytelling, effective design methods, and clear results in portfolio case studies. This is a full-time role based in the Oakland or Denver office. The hybrid work model combines remote flexibility with two in-office days each week.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in end-to-end product design for complex SaaS, B2B, enterprise, or technical products.
- Experience designing complex technical experiences and the ability to empathize with and deeply understand technical users.
- A deep understanding of product usage and experience leveraging UX research and analytics to inform and measure design decisions.
- Ability to drive and establish UX strategy for complex design problems that span multiple teams.
- Entrepreneurial and self-motivated, with a bias toward action.
- Ability to craft engaging presentations and compelling stories that influence stakeholders and cross-functional peers.
- Fluency using AI in the design process.
- A portfolio containing case studies that demonstrate strong storytelling, effective design methodologies, and clear results.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with data, analytics, developer tools, infrastructure, or similarly technical domains.
- Experience designing observability, monitoring, or platform/infrastructure tooling.
- Experience designing AI-powered product experiences such as copilots, intelligent recommendations, guided troubleshooting, summarization, or agent-like interactions.
- Interest in helping shape design culture at a growing company and inspiring others with a unique perspective.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end design for product areas, deliver impactful solutions, and shape direction with partners in alignment with business goals.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to shape direction and translate complex technical requirements into intuitive experiences.
- Design workflows for technical users that simplify complexity while preserving power and clarity.
- Use research and analytics to understand technical users, identify opportunities, and inform and validate design decisions.
- Create flows, interaction models, and prototypes to explore ideas and align teams.
- Connect design decisions to customer and business outcomes.
- Design AI-powered and AI-assisted experiences for complex workflows.
- Define patterns for AI features, including trust, transparency, control, feedback, and recovery.
- Use AI tools throughout the design process to accelerate synthesis, exploration, prototyping, and iteration.
- Drive design outcomes with urgency, navigate ambiguity, unblock challenges, and maintain momentum.
- Champion user-centered design by influencing product decisions and challenging partners when needed.
- Lead customer research, validation, concept design, usability testing, and other modern design practices.
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance.
- Paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays, a year-end Global Week of Rest, and volunteer days off.
- RSU stock grants.
- Professional development and training opportunities.
- Company virtual happy hours, free food, and team-building activities.
- Monthly cell phone stipend.
- Access to a mental health support platform offering therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness resources for covered employees and dependents.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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