Senior Product Designer

Summary

Join dbt Labs as a Senior Product Designer and lead the design vision for orchestration and CI/CD features, creating intuitive experiences for enterprise customers to manage their data workflows. You will collaborate with product managers, engineers, and other designers to ensure seamless integration between dbt Core and dbt Cloud, conduct user research to understand customer needs, and contribute to the design system. This role offers the opportunity to reshape how data practitioners interact with orchestration tools, making sophisticated workflows more accessible and maintainable while delivering tangible cost savings for users.

Requirements

• Have 8+ years of experience designing for web-based applications and tools, not just websites
• Have shipped technical products that solve enterprise user needs
• Have a deep understanding of the end-to-end design process, from discovery through to post-launch iteration
• Have strong communication skills and can effectively explain design decisions to technical stakeholders
• Are highly proficient in Figma or other modern design and collaboration tools
• Can flex your working hours to ensure overlap with ET timezone for collaboration with the team
• Are comfortable occasionally adapting your schedule to conduct user research with customers in different time zones
• Are highly collaborative and thrive in a remote-first environment

Responsibilities

• Lead the design vision for our orchestration features, creating experiences that help enterprise customers manage technical workflows with ease
• Design AI-enabled features for CI/CD that empower developers to improve their dbt code and catch issues before they impact production
• Create seamless experiences that bridge dbt Core and dbt Cloud, enabling more users to benefit from enterprise-grade features
• Take concepts from research through to production while collaborating closely with product managers, engineers, and other designers
• Conduct user research sessions with data practitioners across different time zones to deeply understand their needs and validate solutions
• Be an active member of the Design team by sharing your work, participating in design reviews, and helping others elevate their work
• Contribute to our design system, ensuring consistency and efficiency across our product suite

Preferred Qualifications

• Have experience designing developer tools, especially in the data infrastructure space
• Have worked on orchestration platforms, CI/CD tools, or data quality products
• Have experience with dbt or similar data transformation tools
• Have successfully designed products that drive user adoption through engaging feedback loops
• Understand the fundamentals of data engineering and analytics engineering workflows

Benefits

• Salary: 178,000 - 208,000 USD per year
• Equity Stake
• Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)
• Excellent healthcare
• Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness stipend
• Home office stipend
• Cell phone & Internet stipend, and more!