Senior Product Designer

Fivetran, Inc.; Michigan; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

dbt Labs, in a hybrid U.S. location, seeks a Senior Product Designer to elevate our user experience for complex SaaS products. You will own end-to-end design, partner with product and engineering, and craft innovative AI-powered workflows that balance power with clarity.

You will lead user research, usability testing, and UX strategy across teams, delivering impactful results while shaping product direction and narratives for stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in end-to-end product design for complex SaaS, B2B, enterprise, or technical products.
• Experience designing complex technical experiences for technical users.
• Leverage UX research and analytics to inform design decisions.
• Lead customer research and usability testing.
• Drive UX strategy across multiple teams.
• Entrepreneurial and bias toward action.
• Ability to craft engaging presentations.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design for product areas, delivering impactful solutions and shaping direction with partners to align with business goals.
• Partner with product and engineering to shape direction and turn 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 in your end-to-end design process to accelerate synthesis, exploration, prototyping, and iteration.
• Drive impactful design outcomes with urgency, proactively navigating ambiguity, unblocking challenges, and maintaining momentum.
• Champion user-centered design by confidently influencing product decisions and challenging partners when needed.

Skills

End-to-end design

SaaS/B2B design

UX research

Usability testing

Cross-functional leadership

AI design

Job description

From the company’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With the company, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.

About Us

the company and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission: helping organizations unlock the full value of their data. Together, we’re delivering the data infrastructure layer that helps organizations move, transform, and trust their data — from the moment data moves, through every transformation, to the context teams and AI systems rely on. the company helps organizations automate data movement across the systems, clouds, engines, and tools they rely on. dbt Labs pioneered analytics engineering, helping teams transform data into reliable, governed insights. Together, we support thousands of organizations as they build a trusted foundation for analytics, AI, and better business decisions. As we bring our teams and technology together, we’re building on the strengths of both companies while continuing to deliver the products and experiences our customers know and trust. It’s an exciting time to join us: we’re creating a company with the scale, talent, and technology to help more organizations put their data to work with greater speed, confidence, and impact. During this transition period, you may see references to both the company and dbt Labs throughout our recruiting process as we integrate our teams, systems, and career sites.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to take our experience to the next level! You will shape the future of the the company and dbt Labs for businesses and see your work drive real business and impact. You will be diving deep into the daily lives of our users and ensuring they are set up for success. You'll balance analytics and user research to identify user problems and opportunities. Taking the lead on solving complex user problems should excite you and get your creative juices flowing. We value those that hit the ground running, leading by example on projects and collaborating well cross-functionally. As you talk with our team, your portfolio should contain case studies that demonstrate strong storytelling skills, use of effective design methodologies, and clear results from your work. the company and dbt Labs have a positive, diverse, and supportive culture. We appreciate designers who are curious, humble, think deeply, speak clearly, and thrive on collaboration and feedback. This is a full-time position based out of our Oakland or Denver offices. Our hybrid work model offers a blend of remote flexibility and in-person collaboration, including two days in the office each week to connect and build as a team.

What You’ll Do

• Own end-to-end design for your product areas, delivering impactful solutions and shaping direction with partners to align with business goals
• Partner closely with product and engineering to shape direction and turn 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 in your end-to-end design process to accelerate synthesis, exploration, prototyping, and iteration
• Drive impactful design outcomes with urgency, proactively navigating ambiguity, unblocking challenges, and maintaining momentum
• Champion user-centered design by confidently influencing product decisions and challenging partners when needed.

Skills We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of experience in end-to-end product design for complex SaaS, B2B, enterprise, or technical products (data, analytics, developer tools, infrastructure, or similarly technical domains are preferred).
• Experience designing complex technical experiences with a strong ability to empathize with and deeply understand technical users.
• Driven by a deep understanding of how products get used and experience leveraging UX research and analytics to inform and measure design decisions.
• Ability to lead customer research, customer validation, concept design, usability testing, and other modern design practices.
• Ability to drive and land UX strategy for complex design problems that span multiple teams.
• Entrepreneurial and self-motivated with a bias toward action.
• Ability to craft engaging presentations with