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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Forward Deployed Product Design Lead - **Company:** Dynatrace LLC - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $76,000.0 - $95,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Cursor, Machine Learning, Performance Tuning, Responsive Web Design, Systems Integration, GitHub Copilot, Material UI, Information Technology, Tools for Reporting, Front End Software Development, Software Version Control, Dynatrace - **Published:** September 13, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.builtincolorado.com/auth/login?destination=/job/forward-deployed-product-design-lead/11168170 ## About the Role * Significant experience designing and delivering complex digital products, ideally within consulting, enterprise, B2B, or workflow-heavy environments. * Strong foundations in product design, interaction design, information architecture, research, service design, accessibility, and design systems. * A portfolio of shipped products demonstrating meaningful involvement from early product framing through production. * Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous business and user challenges into clear product models, workflows, priorities, and interfaces. * Strong proficiency with Figma and modern prototyping approaches. * Experience creating coded prototypes or production interfaces using HTML, CSS, JavaScript or TypeScript, and modern frameworks such as React. * Fluency with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or comparable environments. * Ability to create sophisticated interactive prototypes using real or representative data to validate product concepts with users and stakeholders. * Experience designing complete workflows, considering roles, handoffs, data, permissions, exceptions, edge cases, and failure states. * Working knowledge of component libraries, responsive design, APIs, data models, version control, and modern software delivery practices. * Ability to translate experience intent into clear flows, behaviors, content guidance, accessibility requirements, acceptance criteria, and implementation context. * Experience structuring design and product decisions so they can be effectively consumed by both engineers and AI coding agents. * Experience collaborating directly with engineering teams throughout implementation, design QA, release, and iteration. * Strong facilitation, communication, consulting, and stakeholder-management skills. * Ability to communicate product and experience decisions confidently with both executive and technical audiences. * Comfortable working visibly and iteratively with clients rather than relying on a traditional design handoff. Bonus points: * Experience taking AI-enabled or data-intensive products from concept through production. * Strong understanding of human-AI interaction, including oversight, confidence, escalation, transparency, and failure recovery. * Ability to navigate an existing codebase and contribute production-quality frontend work when appropriate. * Experience with agentic development workflows or designing context and specifications for AI coding agents. * Experience using analytics, user feedback, and operational signals to continuously improve shipped products. * Experience helping organizations adopt AI-enabled product, design, or delivery practices. * Experience working across both greenfield and brownfield products, including internal and customer-facing experiences. * Experience supporting client pursuits through rapid concepts and prototypes that make opportunities tangible early in the sales or discovery process. ## Description * Turning ambiguous client challenges into clear, tangible, and buildable product experiences. * Moving quickly from stakeholder conversations and workflows to working prototypes. * Combining product strategy and experience design with hands-on technical experimentation. * Using AI-assisted tools and coded prototyping to accelerate product discovery and delivery. * Working directly with clients, engineers, product leaders, and users rather than operating as a downstream design function. * Designing beyond individual screens to solve complete workflows, systems, and real-world operational challenges. * Staying involved from early product shaping through implementation and production. * Helping define new ways for designers, engineers, and AI tools to work together effectively. By joining our team, you'll be part of a winning squad that plays to each other's strengths and celebrates every success together., Machine Learning * Payments * Security * Software * Financial Services Serves as the senior technical architect for PNC's Varicent incentive compensation platform. Designs compensation architectures, calculation engines, data models, integrations, workflows, and reporting frameworks while establishing technical standards and governance. Leads platform roadmaps, performance optimization, troubleshooting, resiliency initiatives, upgrades, and transformation efforts. Partners with HR, payroll, finance, technology, and business stakeholders, provides architectural guidance, and mentors technical teams. Top Skills: ETLRelational DatabasesSQLVaricent Incentive Compensation ManagementWorkday Dynatrace Customer Success Manager 3 Hours Ago Remote or Hybrid 76K-95K Annually Mid level 76K-95K Annually Mid level Artificial Intelligence * Big Data * Cloud * Information Technology * Software * Big Data Analytics * Automation Manages named customer accounts for Dynatrace Digital Experience Management solutions, driving product adoption, usage training, renewals, and account growth. Builds executive and stakeholder relationships, conducts account reviews, coordinates with sales, escalates critical issues, defends against competition, and identifies expansion opportunities. Serves as a trusted customer advocate while maintaining engagement records and supporting reference accounts. Travel is required as needed. 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