Responsibilities
- Manage and support a small team of designers, including regular 1:1s, performance feedback, and career development.
- Own and execute end-to-end design work to elevate the quality and direction of the Dagster UI and brand, setting a high bar for craft.
- Partner closely with product, engineering, and design peers to drive alignment and ship thoughtful, high-impact features.
- Create clear, compelling design artifacts that guide development and solve real user and business problems.
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve the user experience and shape new product capabilities that delight data engineers.
- Engage with the Dagster open-source community, Dagster+ customers, and customer support teams, to understand user needs and validate designs
- Collaborate with and mentor design peers while helping evolve our design system, patterns, and brand foundations.
Must-have Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience designing enterprise-grade software, with a portfolio that demonstrates strong systems thinking and high-quality craft
- Exceptional attention to detail with a passion for refined visual and interaction design.
- Strong collaborator who thrives in cross-functional environments and excels at guiding teams through iterative, co-creative processes.
- Mastered design tools like Figma to explore, prototype, and communicate ideas effectively.
- Experience running lightweight qualitative user research sessions
- Great storyteller with clear written and verbal communication.
- Experience mentoring or managing designers, with the ability to support both craft development and career growth.
Nice-to-have Qualifications
- Experience designing tools for developers or data practitioners.
- Experience using developer tools like Git, VSCode, React, Vercel
- Experience with Webflow
