Director of Product Design

Quick Facts

• Role: Director of Product Design (Risk product area)

Description

You will lead product design for Vanta’s Risk product area, defining a net-new experience vision, strategy, and execution for an AI-centric workflow builder. You’ll grow and mentor a team of product designers and partner cross-functionally to deliver cohesive, world-class enterprise experiences for complex risk management use cases.

Responsibilities

• Set the vision and design strategy for the Risk product area

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of product designers while fostering craft, experimentation, accountability, and customer obsession

• Partner with Product, Engineering, Research, Content Design, Design Systems, and Go-to-Market to shape strategy and deliver cohesive customer experiences

• Translate complex risk management workflows into intuitive, scalable experiences for security, compliance, IT, legal, finance, and business stakeholders

• Define experiences that help customers identify, assess, treat, monitor, communicate, and report on risk

• Create connected workflows across risks, assets, vendors, controls, tasks, frameworks, owners, approvals, and organizational hierarchies

• Guide the design of enterprise-grade risk registers, dashboards, and reporting workflows

• Lead customer-centered discovery and research to validate problems and solutions with risk managers, security leaders, compliance professionals, and customers

• Establish a high bar for interaction design, visual design, information architecture, accessibility, content, and overall product quality

• Influence product strategy and roadmap decisions using design perspective, customer insights, prototypes, and narratives

• Develop frameworks and processes to help the design team decide effectively, move quickly, and maintain consistency

• Partner with the Design Systems team to evolve reusable patterns that scale the experience

• Bring clarity to ambiguous, complex problems and align cross-functional teams around a shared vision

• Define and measure design impact via customer outcomes, product adoption, usability, efficiency, and business results

• Shape AI-powered experiences for more proactive, actionable, and accessible risk management, with responsible AI judgment

• Represent Design in leadership discussions, planning processes, product reviews, and cross-functional forums

• Share best practices and mentor leaders and designers across the broader Design organization

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

• Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney