Cribl is a rapidly growing company that values collaboration and customer focus, seeking a Senior Manager & Experienced UX Product Designer to join their Product & Engineering organization. The role involves hands-on product design and people management, shaping product experiences and the design culture of an AI-forward platform.
Responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end design for complex product initiatives, simplifying highly technical workflows into intuitive, scalable experiences while partnering closely with Product Management and Engineering from discovery through release
- Contribute to and evolve our design system and reusable UX patterns, ensuring accessibility, usability, and consistency across product surfaces
- Directly manage a small team of UX designers, conduct weekly 1:1s and performance reviews, provide structured design critique and hands-on coaching, and support hiring and onboarding as the team grows
- Manage designer workload, capacity planning, and prioritization across initiatives while maintaining strong UX Jira hygiene, ticket quality, status tracking, and cross-functional alignment within engineering workflows
- Strengthen collaboration with Product and Engineering leadership, integrate UX early in roadmap definition and discovery, champion research rigor, and drive workflow simplification to reduce unnecessary product complexity
- Support documentation, governance, and reusable patterns, help create frameworks engineering teams can confidently build from, and increase design leverage through systems, standards, and clarity to support long-term platform scalability
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in UX or Product Design
- Experience designing complex B2B or developer-facing products
- 1–3 years of formal people management experience with direct reports or team leadership
- Experience managing team workload and collaborating within Jira-driven engineering environments
- Proven ability to operate in ambiguity and shape direction
- Experience partnering closely with engineering in fast-moving environments
- Strong interaction design and systems thinking
- Advanced information architecture across complex product ecosystems
- Strong understanding of research tools (Dovetail, Fullstory) and practices (research plan generation, execution and analysis)
- Comfort with data-heavy, state-driven interfaces and workflow optimization
- Experience contributing to or scaling component-based design systems
- Ability to create reusable interaction patterns, not just one-off screens
- Clear articulation of tradeoffs and rationale
- Deep understanding of accessibility and usability standards
- Expert-level proficiency in Figma
- Player-coach mindset with structured, pragmatic decision-making skills
- Strong cross-functional influence and communication abilities
- Ability to raise quality without slowing momentum