Astronomer empowers data teams to bring mission-critical software, analytics, and AI to life and is the company behind Astro, the industry-leading unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow®. Astro accelerates building reliable data products that unlock insights, unleash AI value, and powers data-driven applications. Trusted by more than 800 of the world's leading enterprises, Astronomer lets businesses do more with their data. To learn more, visit www.astronomer.io http://www.astronomer.io.
ABOUT THIS ROLE
Astronomer is building the next generation of developer tooling for data teams. Our products sit at the center of how modern organizations author, test, deploy, and operate data pipelines, increasingly across ML and AI-driven workloads.
As a Staff Product Designer, you will play a critical role in shaping how data engineers, analytics engineers, and emerging Airflow users interact with Astro. You will work on complex, high-impact problem spaces that span IDE experiences, workflow orchestration, and platform usability, partnering closely with product managers and engineers to translate deep technical constraints into clear, intuitive user experiences.
You will own design for one or more core product areas end to end, from early problem framing and discovery through to detailed execution and iteration in production. The work is meaningful, technically challenging, and highly visible, with a direct impact on customer adoption and developer productivity.
We are looking for an experienced designer who is comfortable operating across levels, someone who can zoom out to reason about systems and product strategy, and zoom in to craft thoughtful interactions, flows, and interfaces.
This is a role with significant ownership and influence.
You do not need to have worked in every technical domain we touch today. We value designers who are curious, collaborative, and motivated to grow their technical depth over time, in close partnership with product and engineering.
You will work closely with our product and engineering teams, collaborating regularly across time zones.
WHAT YOU GET TO DO:
- Own end-to-end design for complex product areas, from discovery and concepting through to high-fidelity execution and shipped outcomes
- Partner closely with product managers and engineers to shape product direction, define scope, and make thoughtful trade-offs grounded in user needs and technical realities
- Design workflows and interfaces for highly technical users, balancing power, flexibility and approachability
- Lead user research and discovery efforts, synthesizing qualitative and quantitative insights into clear design decisions
- Contribute to and evolve Astronomer’s design systems, patterns, and interaction standards to support scale and consistency
- Use data, experimentation, and customer feedback to iterate on designs post-launch and improve outcomes over time
- Clearly communicate design rationale and decisions to cross-fu