Senior Product Design Manager
$201,765–$252,206 year
HybridOakland, California, United States
Job Summary
Lead the dbt product design team by managing and coaching designers across the platform and CLI, owning the full design process from problem definition to delivery. Define and drive UX strategy for dbt's product experience, partnering with Product and Engineering leadership to shape roadmap and product direction. Set design direction for complex technical workflows and lead strategy for AI-powered and agentic experiences within dbt. Co-create a unified product experience and design culture by merging systems and processes between Fivetran and dbt Labs. Operationalize AI across the design lifecycle, establishing shared workflows, quality standards, and review practices for human oversight.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of product design experience
- 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
- Experience operationalizing AI workflows for product design teams that goes way beyond AI prototyping
- Owning UX strategy for a meaningful product area
- Strong technical fluency
- Experience designing for expert technical users such as data engineers, analytics engineers, software engineers, platform teams, or security teams
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