Senior Product Design Manager

Fivetran + dbt Labs is hiring a Senior Manager to lead the Product Design team responsible for dbt Labs. This role reports to the Director of Product Design. This is a people management and product leadership role for a design leader who wants to shape technical data products at scale. You will manage and develop a team of product designers, shape the UX strategy for dbt products, and partner with Product and Engineering leaders to define how data teams build, transform, govern, and trust their data.

Responsibilities

Lead the dbt product design team - manage and coach product designers across dbt platform and CLI-based products; Own UX strategy for dbt - define and drive UX strategy, identify high-impact experience opportunities, partner with Product and Engineering leadership; Provide design direction for technical data products - set direction across complex workflows, understand data workflows, ELT, analytics engineering, developer tools; Shape AI and agentic product experiences - lead design strategy for AI-powered and agentic experiences within dbt; Help integrate Fivetran and dbt Labs design - co-create unified product experience and design culture; Build an AI-native design operating model - operationalize AI across the design lifecycle, establish workflows, standards, review practices

Requirements

8+ years of product design experience and at least 5 years managing product designers; Strong people management skills, including coaching, performance development, direct feedback, and team culture building; Strong cross-functional leadership with Product, Engineering, Research, Data, Marketing, and executive stakeholders; Deep care for craft, with a leadership style focused on direction, critique, strategy, and coaching rather than acting as the primary IC designer; Designing for, or leading teams that design for, technically complex products such as ELT, data infrastructure, analytics engineering, developer tools, cloud platforms, data governance, observability, or adjacent enterprise infrastructure products; Designing AI-powered or agentic product experiences. You understand the difference between a lightweight AI feature, a copilot, and an agentic workflow; Experience operationalizing AI workflows for product design teams that goes way beyond AI prototyping. You have defined how designers use AI across the design lifecycle and have established the workflows, standards, review practices, and quality thresholds needed to make AI-assisted work effective at team scale; Owning UX strategy for a meaningful product area. You can show how your design strategy influenced product direction, not just how your team delivered screens; Strong technical fluency. You can reason about complex systems, understand engineering constraints, and discuss tradeoffs with Product and Engineering partners; Experience designing for expert technical users such as data engineers, analytics engineers, software engineers, platform teams, or security teams

Benefits

100% employer-paid medical insurance*; Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays (including 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 fun team-building activities; Monthly cell phone stipend; Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents