Design Lead – Data Platform

FormativGroup

Design Lead managing product design for a data platform in regulated enterprises. Collaborating with product and engineering teams to shape product vision and user experience.

Posted 6/18/2026full-timeRemote • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the end-to-end product design vision for a data-dense enterprise platform.
Translate complex lineage, migration impact, governance, and blast-radius workflows into clear, navigable product experiences.
Partner closely with Product and Engineering to define what gets built, for whom, and why.
Design for two audiences at once: technical users who need depth and senior stakeholders who need confidence in decisions.
Build and maintain the design system, set the quality bar, and create repeatable standards for future product surfaces.
Run user discovery and research; turn what you learn into product direction, design decisions, and prioritization input.
Use AI across the design workflow, including research synthesis, ideation, prototyping, iteration, and productivity.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Senior or lead-level product design experience in enterprise, B2B SaaS, or similarly complex product environments.
Strong product thinking; you have influenced what gets built and why, not only how it looks.
A portfolio with complex, data-dense interfaces made simple: dashboards, graphs, visualizations, technical workflows, or enterprise tools.
Strong information-design and data-visualization instincts.
End-to-end ownership of a design system, from components and standards through adoption and maintenance.
Fluency working directly with product and engineering teams, with examples of taking ideas from zero to shipped.
Experience building a design function, practice, or product design standard from scratch.
AI fluency, with concrete examples of how you use AI in real design work and the results it produced.

Benefits

Comp & perks

health insurance
retirement plans
paid time off
flexible work arrangements
professional development

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Hard Skills & Tools

product designdata visualizationinformation designdesign system ownershipuser researchprototypingAI integrationB2B SaaS designdashboard designtechnical workflow design

Soft Skills

product thinkingcollaborationcommunicationinfluenceprioritizationuser empathyleadershipadaptabilityproblem-solvingcreativity