Director of Design

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $275k - $323k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Vanta

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2018

📋 Compliance

🔐 Security

☁️ SaaS

💰 $40M Series B on 2022-10

Compliance • Security • SaaS

Vanta is a trust management platform that streamlines compliance workflows and enhances security programs for businesses. By leveraging automation, Vanta helps companies achieve and maintain compliance with frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR. It offers solutions for companies of all sizes, from startups to enterprises, ensuring security and compliance at scale. With integrations with over 375 tools, Vanta leverages AI to simplify tasks such as questionnaire automation and vendor risk management. Vanta empowers service providers and auditors to deliver efficient and satisfactory experiences, helping businesses build trust with their clients and partners.

📋 Description

• Help businesses earn and prove trust through continuous security monitoring and verification • Set the vision and design strategy for Vanta’s Risk product area • Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of product designers • Partner with Product, Engineering, Research, Content Design, Design Systems, and Go-to-Market teams • Translate complex risk management workflows into intuitive, scalable experiences • Define experiences for identifying, assessing, treating, monitoring, communicating, and reporting on risk • Create connected workflows across risks, assets, vendors, controls, tasks, frameworks, owners, approvals, and organizational hierarchies • Guide enterprise-grade risk registers, dashboards, reporting experiences, and workflows • Lead customer-centered discovery and research with risk managers, security leaders, compliance professionals, and customers • Establish a high bar for interaction design, visual design, information architecture, accessibility, content, and product quality • Influence product strategy and roadmap decisions through design perspectives, customer insights, prototypes, and narratives • Develop frameworks and processes for effective decisions, speed, and consistency • Partner with Design Systems to evolve reusable patterns • Align cross-functional teams around a shared customer experience vision • Define and measure design impact through customer outcomes, product adoption, usability, efficiency, and business results • Shape responsible AI-powered risk-management experiences • Represent Design in leadership discussions, planning, product reviews, and cross-functional forums • Contribute to the broader Design organization through best-practice sharing and mentoring

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience designing digital products, including significant experience leading product design for complex B2B SaaS or enterprise software • 4+ years of experience managing and developing product designers, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development • Experience setting design direction for a product area and translating company strategy into clear team priorities and outcomes • Track record of designing intuitive workflows for complex, data-rich, or highly configurable products • Strong product thinking and systems thinking • Experience partnering closely with Product and Engineering leaders to shape strategy, prioritize investments, and deliver high-quality products • Deep understanding of customer-centered design practices, including qualitative research, journey mapping, prototyping, usability testing, and iterative product development • Strong interaction design, information architecture, visual design, and storytelling skills, with a portfolio demonstrating thoughtful and high-quality work • Experience designing products in risk management, cybersecurity, compliance, GRC, IT, infrastructure, financial services, or another complex and regulated domain is a plus • Familiarity with design systems and experience creating scalable patterns • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and making decisions with incomplete information • Collaborative leadership style and demonstrated ability to build trust, encourage diverse perspectives, and bring teams together around a shared vision • Commitment to Vanta’s principles • Required: Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Computer Science, or a related field • Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future employer sponsorship • Responsible for protecting Vanta and customer data • Open to using AI to amplify skills and strengthen work, with sound judgment in applying AI responsibly

🏖️ Benefits

• Industry-competitive salary and equity • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans • 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents • Health & wellness stipend • Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend • Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office • Family planning benefits • Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting • Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time • 11 company-paid holidays • Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events