Senior Product Designer, Data Platform – Online Data Stores and Movement Platform

🌍 Remote, USA 🎯 Full-time 🕐 Posted Recently

Job Description

Shape and own design for ODS and movement platform; creating intuitive workflows that enhance data practitioner and software engineer productivity and delight
Contribute to and help drive adoption of patterns and components for operational, data-dense UIs (runs, pipelines, lineage, diffs) that scale across the platform
Identify opportunities for innovation through research, incident analysis, and technical insight; sequence delivery for measurable impact
Create cohesive, end-to-end experiences with guardrails over gates (paved paths, templates, defaults) to reduce errors
Partner with product and engineering to define and improve how we measure experiences
Anticipate emerging needs and help frame design problems early
Drive end-to-end design for interdependent workflows
Craft and validate prototypes that effectively communicate solutions
Establish scalable design practices and foundational patterns
Scope and negotiate realistic deliverables with partners
Mentor designers and partner teams; help grow shared understanding and adoption of effective design practices
Co-create strategy with product and engineering leadership to drive critical initiatives for your product area
Facilitate workshops with technical stakeholders; build consensus on implementation, trade-offs, and sequencing
Articulate compelling design solutions and decision rationale to senior leadership, connecting technical challenges to business outcomes
Lead through influence across teams to ensure coherent, cross-surface experiences (UI, IDE/CLI, APIs)

5+ years as a Product Designer (or equivalent experience)
Experience designing orchestration and/or data movement tools, databases, developer/data platform tools, or analogous complex technical products
Strong portfolio showing system-level product work and the impact of your design leadership, including initiatives that span multiple teams
Proven track record of leading design initiatives from concept to launch
Proficient in design tools (Figma, etc.) and prototyping technologies
Strong systems thinking and ability to design scalable solutions for complex data/analytics challenges
Successfully led design strategy for complex technical products
Proven track record of influencing and aligning cross-functional partners without direct authority
Ability to navigate ambiguity, create clarity, and move complex initiatives forward with partners
Excellence in communicating design decisions to technical audiences
Demonstrated success in mentoring designers and improving team practices
Strong ability to work autonomously and drive initiatives independently
Skill in sequencing and communicating long-term vision through incremental steps
Ability to collaborate effectively with engineers (coding skills not required)