Staff Product Designer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 11, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 11, 2026.
Join DAT Freight & Analytics as a Staff Product Designer, where you'll set design direction across multiple cross-functional product teams. This hands-on role requires a strong sense of hierarchy, purpose, and user need, as well as the ability to own ambiguity end-to-end. You'll be a trusted collaborator and craft mentor, leading UX and UI design for a multi-team product area and ensuring quality, accessibility, and visual consistency across surfaces.
Missions
- Lead UX and UI design for a multi-team product area, ensuring coherence and quality across several cross-functional squads.
- Take ambiguous, loosely-scoped problems and turn them into a clear design point of view before detailed execution starts.
- Serve as the go-to design authority across your product area, resolving pattern conflicts and design debates that a single squad can't settle on its own.
Profil recherché
- You won't have direct reports, but you'll be expected to raise the level of everyone around you through your work, your critique, and your judgment- You'll bring deep UI craft and systems-level UX thinking to a collaborative team that values craft, curiosity, and outcomes
- You're an experienced designer with strong UI craft and the UX depth to own coherence across multiple product surfaces, not just one
- You're energized by ambiguous, high-stakes problems, good data, and the challenge of designing experiences that make real differences for real users at scale
- You're the person other designers and PMs go to when a decision needs to hold up across teams, and you raise the bar for everyone around you
- Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills, with experience managing stakeholder alignment across teams and presenting to senior leadership
- 8-12+ years of experience in UX/UI design, product design, including demonstrated Staff/Lead-level scope
- Demonstrated experience with experimentation, A/B testing frameworks, or data-informed design iteration
- Solid understanding of accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG) and inclusive design practices
- A portfolio demonstrating strong design craft applied to complex digital products, with clear evidence of both UX thinking and UI quality across multiple teams or product areas
- A track record of mentoring peers effectively - providing structured feedback, setting a craft standard, and helping others develop their skills
- Demonstrable usage of AI in your design practice, with evidence of how you leverage AI for prototyping, testing, and shipping. - We'll ask you to show this, not just describe it
- Advanced proficiency in Figma, including organized component use, contribution to shared design libraries, and ownership of design system artifacts
- Expert command of UX and UI fundamentals: information architecture, interaction design, visual design, layout, typography, color, and visual hierarchy
- Experience working across multiple cross-functional product teams alongside Product, Engineering, and Research partners, without formal management authority