Senior UI/UX Designer - Data & AI Platform

About the Role

We’re hiring a Senior UX/UI Designer to shape the user experience of our open-source and cloud platforms. You’ll join our Foundation team, working alongside another senior designer and a tight crew of engineers and product leads. Your focus: making Soda Cloud intuitive, fast, and useful from onboarding to complex workflows.You’ll work directly with co-founders, the Head of Product, and real users to design experiences that make data quality simple and actionable. If you’re tired of shipping meaningless tweaks and want ownership over real problems, this role is for you.There’s headroom to grow into a design leadership role as we scale.

What You’ll Do

• Own UX/UI from problem to shipped solution across Soda Cloud and Soda Core.
• Lead user research and usability testing to uncover problems and validate fixes.
• Design everything from lo-fi flows to polished UIs including GenAI-driven chat interfaces that explain and act on data quality issues.
• Work daily with engineers to ship and iterate fast.
• Improve what’s already there: audit UX flows, evolve the design system, and improve speed and consistency.
• Drive UX strategy, not just pixels.

What We’re Looking For

• You’ve built UX for real products used by thousands of technical B2B users.
• You know how to get working prototypes live fast, bonus if you’ve used GenAI dev tools like Cursor or Replit.
• You’re strong in Figma, understand engineering trade-offs, and care about details.
• You run your own research and know how to extract truth from a user session.
• You write and speak crisp English.
• You work independently and bring opinions. You care about data, not just design.

Bonus Points For

• Experience with data engineering or data quality tools.
• 5+ years in fast-paced SaaS or devtool environments.
• Shipped developer-focused features (APIs, CLIs, dashboards).
• Designed LLM-powered or AI-assisted UX.
• OSS experience—ideally building with or for open-source communities.
• Experience implementing front-ends or working closely with devs.
• STEM degree from a top-tier university (not required).

What We Offer

• A senior role at a fast-growing, VC-backed open-source startup with global traction.
• Fully remote, with in-person team off-sites every 2 months.
• Up to €120K salary + equity.
• Full ownership, no micromanagement, and real input into product direction.

About Us

Soda monitors the world’s data and decisions.We’re building the first platform for Data and AI performance monitoring, covering everything from data ingestion to automated decision-making. Soda helps teams detect, resolve, and prevent data quality issues through automated monitoring and pipeline testing. We shift data quality left—putting control into the hands of engineers.As of June 2025, we’re launching the next chapter. We’re introducing the fastest, most accurate tools in data observability and launching the world’s first Collaborative Data Contracts. We’re rethinking how teams align on, trust, and operate with data. Learn more: https://launch.soda.io/launch-weekFounded in 2019 by Maarten (ex-Collibra GTM) and Tom (OSS veteran behind projects worth hundreds of millions). In 2025, Soda acquired NannyML and added three new co-founders: Hakim, Wojtek, and Wiljan.Soda Core, our open-source project, is used by Tesla, Slack, Adyen, Walmart, and JPMC. Soda, is backed by Point Nine, Hummingbird, Singular, Lunar Ventures, and Eurazeo.Our Values

We value freedom with responsibility, transparency, and a growth mindset. We dislike politics and bullshit and value open and direct communication without judgment. We proactively bring up and address potential issues before they become critical and overcommunicate frequently. Working at Soda, you will have full autonomy to make impactful product and roadmap decisions and prioritize and organize your work how you see fit.

Why You’ll Love to Join Soda

• Be Part of a Transformation: We’re entering a pivotal phase, and your work will define the industry’s future.
• Experience Fast Growth: Work with a fast-growing international VC-funded startup with a flat structure.
• Small, High-Impact Team: Join a tight-knit product team of passionate builders. We move fast and push each other to improve.
• Ownership from Day One: You will have full ownership of the things you work on. If you see a bottleneck, you fix it. If you want to overhaul our onboarding experience, you have the runway.
• International Culture: Our team spans 12+ countries. Learn from different perspectives and collaborate across time zones.
• Work on Your Own Terms: Fully remote, flexible work, with as many opportunities to meet up as you want!

What You Might Not Love

• Rapidly Changing Priorities: In a fast-moving expansion phase, our roadmap can pivot quickly. It's a fast-paced environment with a LOT of work to be done.
• Flexibility Required: You will have to learn new things all the time.
  

Join us to change the way the world sees Data Quality.