At Collibra, we help organizations trust, understand, and activate their data. As a Staff User Experience Designer, you’ll shape the UX of Collibra’s core product areas, tackling complex, enterprise workflows and bringing clarity to ambiguity.
This is a senior individual contributor role for a designer who leads through influence—driving UX architecture, strategic problem solving, and cross-functional alignment without people management.
Staff UX Designers at Collibra are responsible for
• Operating across multiple core product areas, balancing immediate business needs with long-term experience quality
• Leading high-impact design initiatives, including greenfield work, from problem framing through delivery
• Defining and evolving UX architecture, interaction models, and workflows for complex product areas
• Partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Research, and Content to align teams around clear UX direction
• Providing design leadership and guidance to teams that need additional expertise or support
• Shaping goals, success metrics, and outcomes tied to real customer and business impact
• Connecting experiences across core product areas to improve coherence, usability, and consistency
• Driving stronger cross-functional collaboration by navigating tradeoffs and conflicting priorities
• Applying a broad range of UX methods to reduce ambiguity and improve decision-making
• Mentoring and supporting other designers, contributing to higher overall design quality
You have
• 8–12+ years of experience in product or UX design for enterprise or technically complex products
• Deep experience designing complex software and influencing outcomes at scale
• A portfolio showing end-to-end ownership of impactful work, including UX architecture and strategic problem solving
• Mastery of multiple UX methods (e.g., information architecture, journey mapping, prototyping, usability testing)
• Strong working knowledge of large, modular products and the ability to contribute across product areas
• Proven ability to influence product direction without formal authority
• High proficiency with modern design tools (e.g., Figma) in agile, cross-functional environments
• Because this role supports the US government, it is required that this candidate be a US citizen who resides on US soil
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent related working experience is required
You are
• A systems-minded designer who balances business impact with long-term experience quality
• Comfortable leading ambiguous problem spaces and creating clarity for teams
• Trusted by partners to tackle complex UX challenges
• Skilled at aligning diverse stakeholders around shared outcomes
• Curious about technology and how it shapes user needs
• Clear and persuasive in communicating design rationale and direction
Measures of success
Within your first month, you will:
- Complete onboarding and develop a strong understanding of Collibra’s core product areas, customers, and data intelligence domain
- Build early relationships with Product, Engineering, and Design partners
- Lead a complex design initiative within a core product area, helping bring clarity to an ambiguous problem space
- Establish clear UX direction through architecture, interaction models, or workflow improvements
- Be recognized by partners as a trusted design contributor and thought partner
- Deliver meaningful improvements across one or more core product areas
- Strengthen cross-functional alignment and decision-making through your design leadership
- Positively impact usability, adoption, or efficiency through measurable outcomes
- Raise design quality through hands-on work and mentorship of other designers
The standard rate for this position is $140,000.00 - $175,000.00 per year. This position is not eligible for additional commission-based compensation. Salary rates are based on a combination of factors, including, but not limited to, experience, skills, and location.
In addition to base salary, we offer a competitive total rewards package, including bonus potential, equity for eligible roles, a Flex Fund monthly stipend, pension/401k plans, and more.
Collibra recognizes and values that everyone has different needs, interests, and life goals. We built our benefits program with flexibility in mind to support you and your loved ones through a diverse range of circumstances and life events. These flexible offerings sit on a foundation of competitive compensation, health coverage, and time off. Learn more about Collibra’s benefits.
We create inclusion and belonging through how we onboard, meet, connect, engage, and communicate. Learn more about diversity, equity, and inclusion at Collibra.
At Collibra, we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We realize the key to creating a company with a world-class culture and employee experience comes from who we hire and creating a workplace that celebrates everyone.
With this, we proudly consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, sex, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, HIV status, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, citizenship status or any other legally protected category. If you have a need that requires accommodation, let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
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What We Do
Data has endless potential, if people can trust it.
Collibra helps organizations turn data into a trusted asset that drives business value, innovation, and AI readiness. Our cloud-based data intelligence platform connects data, people, and processes across the enterprise so teams can find, understand, and use the right data with confidence.
By uniting governance, quality, privacy, lineage, and catalog capabilities in one secure, scalable SaaS solution, Collibra gives companies a single source of truth and a foundation they can trust as they embrace AI.
Today, Collibra powers possibility for many of the world’s most data-driven organizations, from global banks and healthcare leaders to public institutions and high-growth tech companies. We help them use data responsibly to make faster, smarter, and more ethical decisions while meeting the highest standards for compliance and innovation.
What truly differentiates us is the way we work. Collibrians bring curiosity, clarity, and care to everything we do. We collaborate across functions and time zones as a global #OneCollibra team, solving complex challenges and delivering measurable impact for our customers.
Founded in Brussels and headquartered in New York, with offices in Raleigh, London, Prague, and beyond, Collibra is a global company built on trust and connection. We work fast, communicate openly, and stay grounded in our mission to make data , and now AI, meaningful for everyone.
Because at Collibra, trusted data isn’t the end goal — it’s where possibility begins.
Why Work With Us
Work here means showing up curious, clear, and ready to build with purpose. As data and AI reshape what’s possible, Collibrians bring clarity to complexity and care to how we work. The pace is fast and the work is meaningful— because every problem we solve powers possibility, as #OneCollibra.
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