Lead Product Designer(B2B, Startup)

At Yugabyte, we are on a mission to become the default transactional database for enterprises building cloud-native applications. YugabyteDB is our PostgreSQL-compatible distributed database for cloud-native apps. Resilient, scalable, and flexible, it runs on any cloud and enables developers to become instantly productive using well-known APIs.We are looking for talented and driven people to join us on our ambitious mission and help us build a lasting and impactful company.The transactional database market is estimated to grow to $64B by 2025. YugabyteDB is cloud-native by design, has on-demand horizontal scalability, and supports geographical distribution of data using built-in replication. This means that we are well-positioned to meet market demand for geo-distributed, high-scale, high-performance workloads.
Join the Database Revolution at Yugabyte.
Modern applications need a cloud-native database that eliminates tradeoffs and silos. YugabyteDB retains the power and familiarity of PostgreSQL by pairing its trusted API with a precision-engineered, distributed, cloud-native architecture. Even better, it’s 100% open source. Many of the world's leading enterprises are migrating from legacy RDBMSs (like Oracle, SQL Server, and DB2) to YugabyteDB, to meet their mission-critical app demands.

• Work with engineers and product managers to define and design projects across Yugabyte Cloud and Yugabyte Platform.
• Work on both broadly defined concepts as well as on narrowly defined, tactical deliverables
• Run lean internal and external usability tests to validate and improve design directions.
• Identify and create the artifacts you believe are required for the success of your project. This could be a user journey diagram, a wireframe, a high-fidelity prototype, a simple paper sketch, or even a screenshot from a similar feature you’ve seen before.
• Participate in standups, sprint planning, and design reviews. 
• Collaborate with the engineers to ensure your interfaces look great when coded out.
• Help suggest design solutions to UX issues identified during QA.
• Collaborate with the design team to refine processes that drive efficiency in working with the Product Organization

Required Experience

• Have 8-14 years of experience designing enterprise or developer-focused products
• Are an expert in UI, UX practices and keep up with the industry, technology, and tools.
• Are a critical thinker who makes objective decisions supported by best practices, user data, business goals, and team principles.
• Have an aptitude for systems thinking and information architecture. This means you can think beyond the user and the scope of your project and consider the interdependence of the elements in the system and how they might affect each other.
• Can reduce complex problems down to the right balance of flexibility, power, and ease of use
• Are comfortable explaining your work, to a cross-functional team that doesn’t have a design background
• Are comfortable and methodical in facilitating cross-functional ideation meetings.
• Are Interested in problem-solving and complex systems.
• Have experience managing multiple projects at the same time
• Are self-driven and organized
• Are opinionated yet humble. 
• Love helping your colleagues learn and grow—and have them help you learn and grow.
• Love working in a fast-paced startup.

Due to the Proclamation, “Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers”, which went into effect on September 21, 2025, at this time we are no longer able to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions filed after September 21, 2025 for new hires. We are still able to consider candidates who require H-1B extensions, changes of employer, or other types of work authorization.