Senior

Fivetran and dbt Labs are combining to deliver the data infrastructure layer that helps organizations move, transform, and trust their data. Fivetran automates data movement; dbt Labs pioneered analytics engineering. Together they support thousands of organizations building a trusted foundation for analytics, AI, and business decisions.

Fivetran + dbt Labs is hiring a Senior Manager to lead the Product Design team responsible for dbt Labs, reporting 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.

• Lead the dbt product design team: manage and coach product designers across dbt platform and CLI-based products; build a culture of support and high-quality design craft.
• Own UX strategy for dbt: define and drive UX strategy, identify high-impact opportunities, and partner with Product and Engineering leadership.
• Provide design direction for technical data products: set direction for complex workflows used by technical practitioners; comfortable discussing data workflows, ELT, analytics engineering, developer tools, and infrastructure-oriented product experiences.
• Shape AI and agentic product experiences: lead design strategy for AI-powered and agentic experiences within dbt, designing systems that make AI assistance understandable, useful, and safe for high-stakes technical work.
• Help integrate Fivetran and dbt Labs design: co-create a unified product experience and design culture, merging systems, processes, and culture.
• Build an AI-native design operating model: operationalize AI across the design lifecycle, establish shared workflows, quality standards, and review practices.

• 8+ years of product design experience and at least 5 years managing product designers.
• Strong people management skills: coaching, performance development, direct feedback, 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.
• Experience designing for technically complex products such as ELT, data infrastructure, analytics engineering, developer tools, cloud platforms, data governance, observability, or adjacent enterprise infrastructure products.
• Experience designing AI-powered or agentic product experiences; understanding the difference between a lightweight AI feature, a copilot, and an agentic workflow.
• Experience operationalizing AI workflows for product design teams, defining how designers use AI across the design lifecycle.
• Owning UX strategy for a meaningful product area, showing how design strategy influenced product direction.
• Strong technical fluency to reason about complex systems 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.

Denver Pay Range: $201,765—$252,206 USD. Benefits include 100% employer-paid medical insurance*, generous paid time away including paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays including a year-end Global Week of Rest, volunteer days off, RSU stock grants*, professional development and training opportunities, company virtual happy hours, free food, team-building activities, monthly cell phone stipend, and access to an innovative mental health support platform. *May vary by country and worker type.

Apply via the Fivetran careers page for this job ID. For accommodations, submit a request via the provided form.