Principal Product Designer

Fivetran Fivetran · Data AI · Oakland, CA · Business Intelligence Department

Fivetran is seeking a Principal Product Designer to lead end-to-end design strategy and execution for key product areas, focusing on complex UX challenges and elevating the product. The role involves shaping workflows for technical users, collaborating with product and engineering, and fostering a design-centric culture. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in data-heavy SaaS/B2B products, strong systems thinking, and the ability to implement their own designs, with a preference for experience in data interfaces, BI, SQL, and data exploration.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the end-to-end design strategy and execution for key areas of our product. Deliver creative solutions while proactively identifying and proposing future improvements and features. Collaborate closely with your stakeholders to shape roadmaps and product direction, align design strategy with business goals, and champion user-centered projects from concept to release.
  2. Act as a vocal and opinionated champion for the user experience. Advocate for user-centered design principles within the organization. Confidently challenge and influence cross-functional partners to embed user considerations in product decisions and ensure the user voice and UX vision remain at the forefront of our product strategy.
  3. Leverage strong communication and compelling storytelling skills to inspire trust, clearly articulate design rationale in terms of business value and technical feasibility, and effectively align teams around your cohesive design strategy. Champion user-centric ideas with your stakeholders and ensure daily design work actively supports strategic business objectives.
  4. Promote design excellence by leading, mentoring, and inspiring your team with your expert guidance, actionable feedback, and championing of best practices. Foster a collaborative environment that encourages experimentation, creativity, and continuous improvement. Actively explore new tools, methods, and approaches to elevate the design process and raise the bar for UX quality across teams.
  5. Conduct and utilize user research to deeply understand our technical users. Proactively identifying user needs, pain points, and opportunities. Inform design decisions with insights from your research and validate your concepts through testing and feedback.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of experience in end-to-end Product Design with significant experience designing for data-heavy, complex, technical or developer-oriented SaaS/B2B products.
  • Extensive AI tool and development experience
  • Proven track record of leading major design initiatives.
  • Proven track record of leading and mentoring other designers.
  • Exceptional product design skills, including user research, UX/interaction design, information architecture, and high-fidelity prototyping.
  • Strong systems-thinking capability with the ability to navigate ambiguity and complexity and simplify highly technical workflows.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with ability to articulate design decisions clearly to diverse audiences including engineers, product managers, and executives.
  • Comfortable balancing strategic vision with practical, hands-on execution.

Nice to have

  • Experience working in data integration, analytics, developer tools, or related technical fields is strongly preferred.

What the JD emphasized

  • implement their own designs
  • data interfaces, especially business intelligence, SQL and data exploration interfaces is a giant plus
  • Extensive AI tool and development experience
  • designing for data-heavy, complex, technical or developer-oriented SaaS/B2B products