Staff User Experience Designer

Joining Collibra’s UX Design team

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

Within your third month, you will:

• 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

Within your sixth month, you will:

• 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.

Benefits at Collibra

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.