--- title: 'Senior Product Designer at Fivetran' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-product-designer-fivetran-oakland-k7fm63dgn1c7' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-08' --- # Senior Product Designer at Fivetran - **Company:** Fivetran - **Location:** Oakland, CA - **Compensation:** $174k–$218k - **Posted:** 2026-11-06 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08 - **Apply:** https://www.fivetran.com/careers/job?gh_jid=8012137003 ## Job description From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven. ## About Us Fivetran and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission: helping organizations unlock the full value of their data. Together, we’re delivering the data infrastructure layer that helps organizations move, transform, and trust their data — from the moment data moves, through every transformation, to the context teams and AI systems rely on. Fivetran helps organizations automate data movement across the systems, clouds, engines, and tools they rely on. dbt Labs pioneered analytics engineering, helping teams transform data into reliable, governed insights. Together, we support thousands of organizations as they build a trusted foundation for analytics, AI, and better business decisions. As we bring our teams and technology together, we’re building on the strengths of both companies while continuing to deliver the products and experiences our customers know and trust. It’s an exciting time to join us: we’re creating a company with the scale, talent, and technology to help more organizations put their data to work with greater speed, confidence, and impact. During this transition period, you may see references to both Fivetran and dbt Labs throughout our recruiting process as we integrate our teams, systems, and career sites. ## About the Role We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to take our experience to the next level! You will shape the future of the Fivetran and dbt Labs for businesses and see your work drive real business and impact. You will be diving deep into the daily lives of our users and ensuring they are set up for success. You'll balance analytics and user research to identify user problems and opportunities. Taking the lead on solving complex user problems should excite you and get your creative juices flowing. We value those that hit the ground running, leading by example on projects and collaborating well cross-functionally. As you talk with our team, your portfolio should contain case studies that demonstrate strong storytelling skills, use of effective design methodologies, and clear results from your work. Fivetran and dbt Labs have a positive, diverse, and supportive culture. We appreciate designers 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 hello with links to your work and experience! This is a full-time position based out of our Oakland or Denver offices. Our hybrid work model offers a blend of remote flexibility and in-person collaboration, including two days in the office each week to connect and build as a team. ## What You’ll Do - Own end-to-end design for your product areas, delivering impactful solutions and shaping direction with partners to align with business goals - Partner closely with product and engineering to shape direction and turn complex technical requirements into intuitive experiences - Design workflows for technical users that simplify complexity while preserving power and clarity - Use research and analytics to understand technical users, identify opportunities, and inform and validate design decisions - Create flows, interaction models, and prototypes to explore ideas and align teams - Connect design decisions to customer and business outcomes - Design AI-powered and AI-assisted experiences for complex workflows - Define patterns for AI features, including trust, transparency, control, feedback, and recovery - Use AI tools in your end-to-end design process to accelerate synthesis, exploration, prototyping, and iteration - Drive impactful design outcomes with urgency, proactively navigating ambiguity, unblocking challenges, and maintaining momentum - Champion user-centered design by confidently influencing product decisions and challenging partners when needed. ## Skills We’re Looking For - 5+ years of experience in end-to-end product design for complex SaaS, B2B, enterprise, or technical products (data, analytics, developer tools, infrastructure, or similarly technical domains are preferred). - Experience designing complex technical experiences with a strong ability to empathize with and deeply understand technical users. - Driven by a deep understanding of how products get used and experience leveraging UX research and analytics to inform and measure design decisions. - Ability to lead customer research, customer validation, concept design, usability testing, and other modern design practices. - Ability to drive and land UX strategy for complex design problems that span multiple teams. - Entrepreneurial and self-motivated with a bias toward action. - Ability to craft engaging presentations with engrossing stories that influence stakeholders and cross-functional peers. - Excitement for the chance to shape the design culture at a growing company and to inspire people with your unique perspective. - Fluency using AI in your design process. Bonus Skills​ - Experience designing for observability, monitoring, or platform/infrastructure tooling. - Experience designing AI-powered product experiences such as copilots, intelligent recommendations, guided troubleshooting, summarization, or agent-like interactions. - A desire to have fun while building a great product! #LI-DJ1 #LI-Hybrid The compensation range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire compensation for the target position and level, and may include sales incentives or target bonuses depending on the role.  Our compensation ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Our job titles may span more than one career level. Within the range, individual compensation is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, business need, market demands. The compensation range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific compensation range for your location during the hiring process. Oakland Pay Range $174,391—$217,989 USD ## Perks and Benefits - 100% employer-paid medical insurance* - Generous paid time away from work, including paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays, including a year-end Global Week of Rest, and volunteer days off. - RSU stock grants* - Professional development and training opportunities - Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities - Monthly cell phone stipend - Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents. *May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information Click [here](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CdawUwjo1Q1B7ghZJ_owdmmHB8VtqhBu?usp=sharing) to learn more about Fivetran's Benefits by Region. We’re honored to be [valued at over $5.6 billion](https://fivetran.com/blog/hvr-acquisition-series-d), but more importantly, we’re proud of our [core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream](https://fivetran.com/culture). Read about us in [Forbes](https://fivetran-com.s3.amazonaws.com/news/forbes-aug-sept-2022-digital-reprint-10-21-22.pdf). Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities. To learn more about Fivetran’s culture and what it’s like to be part of the team, [click here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlhtp4dGh8o) and enjoy our video. To learn more about our candidate privacy policy, you can [read our statement here](https://fivetran.com/candidate-privacy). We are committed to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to participate in our interview process. If you require accommodations at any stage of the process due to a disability, medical condition, or any other circumstance, please don't hesitate to submit your request by filling out this [form](https://forms.gle/V7k3t4u9j523XkEt6). We will work with you to provide reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation and ensure a fair and accessible interview experience. Your request and any information provided will be kept confidential and will not impact your candidacy. We look forward to hearing from you and accommodating your needs to the best of our ability. ## About Fivetran ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Fivetran provides an automated data movement platform that centralizes and transforms data from hundreds of sources into cloud destinations for analytics, operations, and AI. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series D, valued at $5.6B as of 2021) - **Headquarters**: Oakland, California, USA - **Founded**: 2012 (out of Y Combinator in 2013) - **Founders**: George Fraser (CEO) and Taylor Brown ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Data Integration / Automated Data Movement / Modern Data Stack - **Target customers**: B2B, serving both fast-moving startups and Fortune 500 enterprises (5,000+ customers) - **Mission statement**: "Making access to data as simple and reliable as electricity." ## Products & Services - **Fivetran Platform**: Fully managed, high-performance data pipelines that move data from 700+ sources (SaaS apps, databases, ERPs, files) to data warehouses, lakes, and applications. Features include automated schema migration, built-in transformations, and support for open table formats (Iceberg, Delta Lake) via the Managed Data Lake Service. - **Fivetran Transformations**: SQL-based transformation models run directly in the destination, turning raw data into analytics-ready datasets without manual orchestration. - **Teleport Data & HVR (Acquired)**: Strategic acquisitions that expanded the platform’s capabilities to serve enterprises of any size. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: $5.6 billion (Series D, 2021) - **Key Metric**: Revenue grew by more than 50% year-over-year; over 5,000 customers. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (seed); Partners include Google Cloud (Global Technology Partner of the Year), Snowflake (Data Integration Partner of the Year), and Databricks (Data Ingestion Partner of the Year). - **Growth Signals**: - Named to the 2022 Forbes Cloud 100 - Financial Times' The Americas Fastest Growing Companies 2024 - Acquired Teleport Data and HVR in the same year - 2 trillion+ schema changes handled per month; 9.1+ petabytes of data synced per month; 33.5 million+ rows synced per month - Global presence with ten international offices ## Competitive Advantages - **Platform Depth**: 700+ pre-built connectors, fully managed pipelines, and automated schema change handling reduce manual data engineering work. - **Enterprise Trust**: SOC 1 & SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA BAA, PCI DSS Level 1, HITRUST, GDPR compliant — built to meet the standards security teams demand. - **Ecosystem Lock-In**: Deep partnerships with major cloud and data platforms (Google Cloud, Snowflake, Databricks) create a strong network effect. - **Scale**: Processes 156.5 million+ pipeline syncs per month, demonstrating massive operational maturity. ## Strategic Focus - **AI-Ready Data**: Moving from analytics to powering autonomous agents and AI with trusted, real-time data. - **Open Formats**: Investing in Managed Data Lake Service with Iceberg and Delta Lake to standardize lake architecture and reduce costs. - **Enterprise Expansion**: Continuing to serve Fortune 500 companies and large enterprises through acquisitions and platform capabilities. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Named a Great Place to Work over 10 times. 98% of employees say they feel welcomed when they join; 96% say management is honest and ethical. - **Hybrid Model**: 2 days per week in the office for collaboration and connection. - **Compensation**: Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) for all new hires with annual refresh grants. - **Parental Leave**: Generous paid parental leave starting on day one, plus a baby cash incentive. - **Time Off**: 25 days paid time off per year, plus paid holidays and sick time; 2 days of volunteer time off annually. - **Perks**: Free lunches, team events, home office reimbursements, monthly cell phone stipend. - **Locations**: Global HQ in Oakland, CA, with offices in Denver, Dublin, Amsterdam, Novi Sad (Serbia), and more. - **Diversity & Inclusion**: Employee resource groups like Fivetran Women; a stated commitment to building teams with diverse perspectives. ## Sources 1. [Fivetran Website](https://www.fivetran.com/) 2. [Fivetran About Page](https://www.fivetran.com/about) 3. [Fivetran Careers Page](https://www.fivetran.com/careers) 4. [Greenhouse Job Board](https://boards.greenhouse.io/fivetran/jobs/6278611003) 5. 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