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. You will help shape a coherent product experience, guide the design team through change, and influence the future of AI-powered data products.

• Lead the dbt product design team: manage and coach a team of product designers working across dbt platform and CLI-based products.
• Own UX strategy for dbt: define and drive UX strategy across dbt’s product experience, partnering with Product and Engineering leadership.
• Provide design direction for technical data products: set direction for design work across complex workflows used by technical practitioners.
• 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 a unified product experience and design culture.
• Build an AI-native design operating model: operationalize AI across the design lifecycle.

• 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.
• 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, establishing workflows, standards, review practices, and quality thresholds.
• 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.

Oakland 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, paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays, RSU stock grants, professional development and training opportunities, company virtual happy hours, free food, team-building activities, monthly cell phone stipend, and access to a mental health support platform.