Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design for complex product areas, from discovery and concepting through to high-fidelity execution and shipped outcomes
• Partner closely with product managers and engineers to shape product direction, define scope, and make thoughtful trade-offs grounded in user needs and technical realities
• Design workflows and interfaces for highly technical users, balancing power, flexibility and approachability
• Lead user research and discovery efforts, synthesizing qualitative and quantitative insights into clear design decisions
• Contribute to and evolve Astronomer’s design systems, patterns, and interaction standards to support scale and consistency
• Use data, experimentation, and customer feedback to iterate on designs post-launch and improve outcomes over time
• Clearly communicate design rationale and decisions to cross-functional partners and leadership
• Help raise the overall bar for product design craft, collaboration and quality across the team

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience as a product designer on complex SaaS or platform products, or equivalent impact across fewer years
• Experience designing complex, end-to-end product experiences for developer tools, technical platforms, or adjacent problem spaces, with curiosity and willingness to engage deeply with technical concepts
• Ability to independently own problem spaces and drive design work from ambiguity to execution, while actively partnering with product managers and engineers
• Strong product thinking, with a track record of balancing user needs, business goals and technical constraints
• High craft in interaction design, information architecture, and visual design, demonstrated through thoughtful problem-solving, clear decision-making, and well-executed interfaces
• Comfort collaborating closely with engineers, including discussing trade-offs, constraints and implementation details
• Clear and thoughtful communication skills, with the ability to explain design rationale and influence cross-functional partners
• A user-centered mindset grounded in empathy, curiosity and continuous learning

Bonus Points

• Experience designing for data engineers, analytics engineers or other developer-first audiences
• Familiarity with workflows involving data pipelines, orchestration, IDEs or infrastructure tooling
• Experience working in fast-growing or early-stage product organizations
• Experience contributing to or evolving design systems at scale
• Comfort collaborating with globally distributed teams