Product Designer - UI / UX

Databahn is looking for a Product Designer - UI/UX to craft intuitive, scalable, and high-performance user experiences across our Security Data Fabric platform.

This role blends advanced UI/UX design execution, design systems ownership, complex data visualization design, and cross-functional product collaboration. You will design experiences that simplify highly complex data workflows, turning large-scale telemetry pipelines, routing logic, and analytics into clear, efficient, and delightful user interfaces. This role is critical to ensuring Databahn delivers not only powerful infrastructure but also a world-class, usable product experience.

The core responsibilities for the job include the following:

End-to-End UI/UX Design:

• Design intuitive workflows for complex data operations, including data ingestion pipelines, routing and transformation rules, and monitoring and observability dashboards.
• Translate technical capabilities into clear, user-friendly experiences.
• Reduce cognitive load for security and data engineering users.

UI Design Execution:

• Create high-fidelity UI designs for web-based enterprise applications.
• Deliver pixel-perfect, developer-ready designs.
• Ensure consistency across layouts, typography, color systems, and interaction patterns.

Design Systems and Scalability:

• Design System Ownership.
• Build and maintain a scalable design system for Databahn.
• Define reusable components, patterns, and interaction models.
• Ensure consistency across the platform.

Collaboration with Engineering:

• Work closely with frontend engineers to ensure accurate implementation.
• Define component behaviors, states, and edge cases.
• Contribute to design tokens and UI standards.

Complex Data Visualization:

• Design dashboards and visualizations for high-volume data flows, cost and usage analytics, and pipeline performance monitoring.
• Choose appropriate visualization patterns (tables, charts, flows, graphs).
• Balance density of information with usability and clarity.

User Research and Usability:

• Conduct user interviews with security engineers, data platform teams, and DevOps users.
• Translate user feedback into actionable design improvements.
• Run usability testing and iterate rapidly.

Product Collaboration:

• Partner closely with product managers to translate PRDs into UX flows and wireframes, and influence product decisions through design thinking.
• Collaborate with Engineering on feasibility and implementation trade-offs.
• Contribute to roadmap discussions with a user-first perspective.

Interaction Design and UX Excellence:

• Design micro-interactions and feedback systems.
• Ensure smooth navigation across complex workflows.
• Optimize for efficiency, speed, and clarity in enterprise use cases.

Documentation and Design Communication:

• Produce clear design specs, user flows, and interaction documentation.
• Maintain design artifacts in tools like Figma.
• Ensure smooth handoff to engineering.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in UI/UX or product design.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating enterprise SaaS products, complex workflows, data-heavy interfaces, and expertise in design tools such as Figma.
• Strong understanding of interaction design, information architecture, and usability principles.
• Experience working closely with frontend engineers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing for: Data platforms, SIEM or observability tools, or developer products, security, or infrastructure products.
• Experience with design systems at scale.
• Familiarity with frontend technologies (React, HTML/CSS) and UI mockups like Figma.
• Experience designing dashboards and analytics-heavy products.
• Startup experience in fast-paced environments.