Senior Product Design Manager
From our founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, your data just arrives in your warehouse, canonical and ready to query, no engineering or maintenance required. As we watch more and more companies leverage our technology to become truly data-driven, we’re proud not only of our growth but also of the fact that we’ve grown without compromising our core values.
Integrity.
We do the right thing, even when it's harder in the short run. We challenge the status quo by reasoning from first principles.
Initiative.
Fivetran belongs to all of us. We take ownership and are accountable for getting things done. Through curiosity, learning, and coaching, we grow as individuals and teams.
One team, one dream.
We share the pains and successes of our customers, partners and colleagues. We seek, gather, and trust a diverse group of teammates with different perspectives to guide Fivetran's progress.
If these values resonate with you, we’d love to hear from you.
Our Mission:
We are on a mission to empower teams and individuals with accurate, highly usable data quickly and reliably. Fivetran is on a mission to be an integral part of the Modern Data Stack, and our latest 100MM funding round is helping us do just that!
The Role:
We are hiring our first Product Design Manager to lead the product design team at Fivetran. You will report to the Head of Design and play a pivotal part in Fivetran’s mission to “Make data as accessible and reliable as electricity”. Our ideal candidate’s balance of product design experience and knack for talent development will enable them to hit the ground running, leading by example on product projects, leading the design team, and working cross-functionally.
As a manager, you will be responsible for representing the design team’s perspective to cross functional leads and partners in Engineering, Product Management, and internally to the Design team. You drive alignment and help connect individuals’ workstreams to our greater mission and business goals. This is a hands-on leadership position; depending on your interests and skills, you may do some product design work as needed or desired.
Fivetran has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture. We appreciate design leaders who are curious, humble, think deeply, speak clearly, and thrive on collaboration and feedback. If this sounds like a good fit for you, send us a nice hello with links to your work and experience. This role will report directly to the Head of Design.
What you’ll do:
- Lead a team of product designers focused on Fivetran’s dashboard, onboarding, pricing and billing experience, information architecture, interaction models, and our fledgling design system.
- Work with product and engineering and other cross-functional partners to drive design vision, strategy, and turn business objectives into customer centered problems.
- Design, guide, and drive collaboration processes.
- Set a high bar for quality and help teams ship with that quality, without compromising velocity.
- Develop a deep understanding of a dynamic, complex product ecosystem.
- Coach, mentor, provide career development, and actionable feedback to your team.
- Ensure that projects are properly staffed based on scope, skills and timing.
- Recruit and interview new product designers, review incoming candidates, and actively improve our design hiring process.
Required Qualifications:
- Demonstrated history guiding a team through the complete lifecycle of complex, large-scale tools that are simple, elegant, and beautiful.
- Have the attitude and ability to create the best digital design in the industry.
- Proven skills in stakeholder management and visual storytelling.
- Strong ability to develop, coach and up level a team to become the next generation of key contributors within the company
- Experience leading team workshops and ideation exercises.
- Experience with prototyping as a means to explore and convey design solutions.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Managed a distributed team
- Experience leading design sprints
- A nuanced understanding of diverse and inclusive hiring practices
Benefits and Compensation
- 100% paid Medical, Dental, Vision and Basic Life Insurance. Benefits begin on your first day!
- Option of Health Savings Account (HSA) or Flexible Savings Account (FSA)
- Generous paid time off (PTO) plus paid sick time, holidays, parental leave, and volunteer days off
- 401k match program
- Eligible donation match program
- Monthly cell phone stipend
- Work-from-home equipment reimbursement for your home office setup!
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Company virtual happy hours and fun team building activities
- Pet Insurance -- and yes, you can bring your well-behaved fur babies to work
- Commuter benefits to help with transit and parking costs
Shaped by the real-world needs of data analysts, Fivetran technology is the smartest, fastest way to replicate your applications, databases, events and files into a high-performance cloud warehouse. Fivetran connectors deploy in minutes, require zero maintenance, and automatically adjust to source changes — so your data team can stop worrying about engineering and focus on driving insights. To learn more about Fivetran’s culture and what it’s like to be part of the team, click here and enjoy our video.
To learn more about our candidate privacy policy, you can read our statement here.