Senior Product Design Manager

About the role

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 an exciting time to join!

This role is an opportunity to shape a coherent product experience, guide the design team through change, and influence the future of AI-powered data products.

You will join a strong and talented design organization whose members care deeply about their craft, the practitioners they serve, and one another.

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 coach a team of product designers who work across dbt platform and CLI-based products.
• Designers own the full design process from problem definition and research to UX/UI and partnering with eng/PM through delivery.
• You will build a culture where designers feel supported, challenged, and empowered to do thoughtful, high-quality work for deeply technical users.
• You will set clear expectations, give actionable feedback, support career growth, and create the conditions for strong design craft.

What You'll Do

• Lead the dbt product design team
• Own UX strategy for dbt
• Provide design direction for technical data products
• Shape AI and agentic product experiences
• Help integrate Fivetran and dbt Labs design
• Build an AI-native design operating model

Required Experience

• 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