Engineering

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