Senior Product Designer, Data & AI Platform

Databricks Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is hiring a Senior Product Designer to own an area of the Databricks Platform. You will shape design across data engineering, analytics, databases, apps, and AI agents, partnering with product and engineering to deliver accessible, trustworthy enterprise tools.

You’ll work with strong visual craft and systems thinking, leading complex projects and collaborating with stakeholders to balance business goals with user needs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product design work experience.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in design, computer science, human–computer interaction, or a related field.
• A portfolio demonstrating end‑to‑end design process from inception to production.
• Demonstrated ability to lead large and complex design projects and balance the needs of diverse stakeholders.
• A systems thinker with vision to design the big picture and enable incremental engineering.
• A deep understanding of business goals, customer needs, emerging AI capabilities, and the evolving data landscape.
• Self‑directed and comfortable in ambiguity.
• Beautiful visual and interaction work rooted in a data‑driven, well‑researched UX process.

Responsibilities

• Own your area end to end. Define problem, design direction, and carry work from framing to shipped detail.
• Set the quality bar by making critical design decisions and improving work with team input.
• Advocate with evidence by researching with customers and turning insights into action.
• Show the experience got better by defining success criteria and validating with usability studies.
• Influence product and engineering decisions with prototypes and clear reviews.
• Prototype to explore ambiguous problems, reduce risk, and align the team on a direction.
• Design directly in the codebase with coding agents to ship design changes with engineers.
• Define reusable UX principles and patterns to drive cross‑team consistency.
• Raise the level of critique and help make clear decisions with product and engineering.

Skills

Product design

Portfolio

Leadership

Systems thinking

UX research

Stakeholder communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Visual & interaction design

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in design/CS/HCI

Job description

Databricks is hiring a Senior Product Designer to own an area of the Databricks Platform. You will shape design across data engineering, analytics, databases, apps, and AI agents, partnering with product and engineering to deliver accessible, trustworthy enterprise tools.

You’ll work with strong visual craft and systems thinking, leading complex projects and collaborating with stakeholders to balance business goals with user needs.