Design Lead - Data Platform

Own product design for an early-stage, data-dense platform built for regulated enterprises.

We are hiring a Design Lead to own product design for a perimeter-safe data lineage and migration impact-analysis platform for regulated enterprises. This is a real, working product becoming a standalone business. This is a build.

This is not a pure UI/UX role. You will think like a product manager, start from the customer problem, help shape what we build and why, and make complex technical information clear and trustworthy.

Quick Facts

• Early-stage, standalone product build
• Focus on regulated enterprises
• Data lineage and migration impact-analysis platform

What You'll Work On

• Own the end-to-end product design vision for a data-dense enterprise platform.
• Translate complex lineage, migration impact, governance, and blast-radius workflows into clear, navigable product experiences.
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering to define what gets built, for whom, and why.
• Design for two audiences at once: technical users who need depth and senior stakeholders who need confidence in decisions.
• Build and maintain the design system, set the quality bar, and create repeatable standards for future product surfaces.
• Run user discovery and research; turn what you learn into product direction, design decisions, and prioritization input.
• Use AI across the design workflow, including research synthesis, ideation, prototyping, iteration, and productivity.

What You'll Bring

• Senior or lead-level product design experience in enterprise, B2B SaaS, or similarly complex product environments.
• Strong product thinking; experience influencing what gets built and why.
• Portfolio featuring complex, data-dense interfaces such as dashboards, graphs, visualizations, technical workflows, or enterprise tools.
• Strong information-design and data-visualization instincts.
• End-to-end ownership of a design system, from components and standards through adoption and maintenance.
• Experience working directly with product and engineering teams from zero to shipped.
• Experience building a design function, practice, or product design standard from scratch.
• AI fluency with concrete examples of impact in real design work.

How You Work

• Customer-problem first mindset.
• Player-coach approach: hands-on while setting quality standards.
• Operate effectively in ambiguity and define direction with incomplete information.
• Raise the design bar while keeping an early-stage product moving.

Bonus Points

• Experience designing for technical users such as developers, data engineers, analysts, or platform teams.
• Familiarity with lineage, graph visualization, data governance, migration impact analysis, or metadata products.
• Exposure to regulated-industry products such as financial services, insurance, healthcare, or government.

What Success Looks Like

• Product experience makes complex lineage and impact information easier to understand, trust, and act on.
• Clear design vision and practical design system adopted by the team.
• User research informs product decisions.
• Trusted partnership with Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders as the platform matures.

Additional Requirements

• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.; no visa sponsorship available.
• Candidates must reside in one of the specified U.S. states to be eligible for consideration.