Product Designer Job Denver area,Colorado USA,Design & Architecture

Position: Staff Product Designer

DAT Freight & Analytics is looking for a Staff Product Designer to join the Product Design team, reporting to our Director of Product Design
In this role, you'll set design direction across multiple cross-functional product teams, shaping how carriers, brokers, and shippers experience DAT's suite of products at a scope that spans squads, not just a single one
This is a hands-on, high-ambiguity role for someone who's ready to own coherence and quality across a full product area, not just a feature
You'll be the person who steps in before a problem is fully scoped, resolves design debates that cross team lines, and builds the patterns other designers build on
You'll be a design voice that Product, Engineering, and Research leaders turn to when a decision needs to hold up across the whole product, not just one corner of it
Crafting refined, high-quality UI that reflects a strong sense of hierarchy, purpose, and user need - and setting the standard others iterate against
Owning ambiguity end-to-end: forming a point of view before a problem is fully scoped, running experiments, measuring outcomes, and improving based on evidence
Being a trusted collaborator and craft mentor on a team that moves quickly, values quality, and takes outcomes seriously
Lead UX and UI design for a multi-team product area, owning coherence and quality across several cross-functional squads rather than a single one
Take ambiguous, loosely-scoped problems - new market opportunities, cross-cutting workflow gaps, technical-debt-driven redesigns, and turn them into a clear design point of view before detailed execution starts
Define the interaction models and design patterns that other designers on adjacent squads adopt; identify and close design-system gaps before they become inconsistent across the product
Approach every project with a customer-centric mindset, a clear hypothesis, and a defined measure of success, at a scale where the hypothesis often spans multiple teams’ roadmaps
Serve as the go-to design authority across your product area, resolving pattern conflicts and design debates that a single squad can't settle on its own
Ensure quality, accessibility, and visual consistency across your surfaces, upholding accessibility standards and championing inclusive design practices at a systems level
Partner with Product, Data, and Research to frame design decisions around evidence; use analytics, user research, and qualitative feedback to consistently inform and refine your work
Design, document, and support experiments and A/B tests, framing every design as a prototype that can be learned from and improved - including experiments that span more than one team’s surface
Track UX and business metrics relevant to your product area to demonstrate impact and proactively surface opportunities to improve
Advocate for, and where needed personally lead, the research that de-risk major cross-team design decisions, working closely with UXR peers
Work closely with Product, Engineering, Data, and Research partners to bring experiences from concept through launch, ensuring expectations are clearly communicated across every team involved
Lead communication across your work streams, presenting complex, cross-team design decisions to senior stakeholders (VP/Director level) and connecting them to business outcomes
Mentor senior and mid-level designers: unblock their hardest problems, give direct feedback on craft, and help them grow toward their next level
Formalize or sharpen team rituals (design crits, discovery readouts, retrospectives) that improve the quality and culture of the design practice, not just your own team’s
Understand the goals behind the work, not just the request, and connect design decisions to business outcomes, user needs, and…