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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. You will help shape a coherent product experience, guide the design team through change, and influence the future of AI-powered data products. 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, managing and coaching designers who own the full design process.
Build a culture where designers feel supported, challenged, and empowered.
Set clear expectations, give actionable feedback, support career growth, and create conditions for strong design craft.
Own and drive UX strategy across dbt’s product experience.
Identify high-impact experience opportunities and connect design priorities to product outcomes.
Partner with Product and Engineering leadership as a strategic peer in roadmap and product direction conversations.
Set direction for design work across complex workflows used by technical practitioners.
Lead design strategy for AI-powered and agentic experiences within dbt.
Design systems that make AI assistance understandable, useful, and safe for high-stakes technical work.
Think about how product surfaces need to work for both human and AI agent personas.
Play an important role in co-creating a unified product experience and design culture.
Merge systems, processes, and culture in partnership with the Director of Product Design.
Help designers navigate a new organizational context, build strong cross-functional relationships, and create clarity during company evolution.
Operationalize AI across the design lifecycle, establishing shared workflows, quality standards, and review practices.
Define cross-functional standards for AI-generated work requiring design review, ensuring human oversight, quality, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

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.
Experience 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.
Experience designing AI-powered or agentic product experiences.
Experience operationalizing AI workflows for product design teams.
Experience owning UX strategy for a meaningful product area.
Strong technical fluency to reason about complex systems, understand engineering constraints, and discuss tradeoffs.
Experience designing for expert technical users such as data engineers, analytics engineers, software engineers, platform teams, or security teams.

Skills

Product Design
People Management
Cross-functional Leadership
UX Strategy
AI-powered product experiences
Agentic product experiences
Technical Fluency
Design for technical users

Location

Denver

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior Manager
8+ years product design experience
5+ years management experience

Salary/Compensations

$201,765—$252,206 USD

Benefits

100% employer-paid medical insurance
Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, 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

About the Company

Fivetran’s mission is to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity.
Fivetran and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission: helping organizations unlock the full value of their data.
Together, they’re delivering the data infrastructure layer that helps organizations move, transform, and trust their data.
Fivetran helps organizations automate data movement across systems, clouds, engines, and tools.
dbt Labs pioneered analytics engineering, helping teams transform data into reliable, governed insights.
They support thousands of organizations as they build a trusted foundation for analytics, AI, and better business decisions.
The company is creating a company with the scale, talent, and technology to help more organizations put their data to work with greater speed, confidence, and impact.
Fivetran is valued at over $5.6 billion.
Core values: Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream.
Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe.
Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce.

Equal Opportunity

We are committed to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to participate in our interview process.
If you require accommodations at any stage of the process due to a disability, medical condition, or any other circumstance, please submit your request by filling out this form.
We will work with you to provide reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation and ensure a fair and accessible interview experience.
Your request and any information provided will be kept confidential and will not impact your candidacy.