Staff Visual Product Designer, Design Systems

Vanta helps businesses earn and prove trust through continuous security monitoring and verification. The Staff Visual Product Designer will shape Vanta’s visual language and design systems, creating scalable, accessible patterns and cohesive product experiences. The role partners with design, engineering, research, content, brand, and product teams while mentoring designers and influencing product strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Define and evolve Vanta’s visual design language across product surfaces, creating a cohesive, distinctive, and scalable customer experience
• Set a high bar for visual craft across typography, color, layout, iconography, illustration, motion, data visualization, and interaction details
• Partner with Design Systems, Product, Engineering, Research, Content Design, and Brand teams to translate customer and business needs into effective system-level solutions
• Own and evolve foundational design system elements, including design tokens, component visual states, responsive behavior, theming, density, and platform-specific adaptations
• Create reusable patterns and guidance that help product teams solve common problems consistently while preserving flexibility for different customer workflows
• Design and prototype system components and end-to-end product experiences, using high-fidelity exploration to communicate intent and accelerate alignment
• Bring visual clarity and hierarchy to complex, data-rich workflows used by security, compliance, IT, legal, finance, and business stakeholders
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure designs are implemented with fidelity, accessibility, performance, and maintainability in mind
• Establish principles, standards, and review practices that raise the quality and consistency of product design across Vanta
• Advocate for inclusive and accessible visual design, ensuring that color, contrast, typography, motion, and interaction states work for a broad range of users and contexts
• Help define how the design system supports emerging product needs, including AI-powered experiences, personalization, automation, and increasingly complex enterprise workflows
• Use customer insights, product data, usability feedback, and competitive research to identify opportunities to improve the system and its impact
• Working AI-natively: uses AI tools throughout the design process, and has shipped designs for non-deterministic, AI-powered experiences (chat, agentic modalities, etc)
• Facilitate critiques, workshops, and cross-functional reviews that help teams make stronger visual and product decisions
• Influence product strategy and roadmap decisions through strong design perspectives, compelling narratives, prototypes, and a clear point of view
• Mentor product designers and contribute to a culture of thoughtful critique, continuous learning, experimentation, and customer obsession
• Create documentation, examples, and enablement materials that make the design system easy to understand, adopt, and extend
• Define and measure the impact of the design system through adoption, consistency, accessibility, usability, delivery efficiency, and customer outcomes
• Represent Design Systems in planning processes, product reviews, and other cross-functional forums, helping teams align around a shared vision for the Vanta experience
• Contribute to the broader Design organization by sharing best practices, strengthening design craft, and improving how Vanta approaches visual product quality

Requirements:

• • 8+ years of experience designing digital products, with significant experience in visual product design for complex B2B SaaS or enterprise software
• • Deep expertise in visual design for digital products, including typography, color, composition, layout, iconography, illustration, motion, interaction states, and data visualization
• • A strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual craft, thoughtful systems thinking, and the ability to improve product experiences at both the component and end-to-end workflow level
• • Experience creating, evolving, and scaling product design systems used by multiple teams across a growing organization
• • Strong understanding of design tokens, component architecture, responsive design, accessibility, and the relationship between design tools and front-end implementation
• • A track record of turning ambiguous product and customer problems into clear, elegant, and reusable visual solutions
• • Experience partnering closely with engineers to bring detailed visual designs to life and to make pragmatic decisions when implementation constraints arise
• • Strong product thinking, with the ability to understand customer needs, business goals, technical constraints, and the broader relationships among product surfaces and workflows
• • Excellent communication, storytelling, and facilitation skills, with the ability to influence product and engineering partners without relying on formal authority
• • Experience balancing consistency and flexibility, knowing when to use an existing pattern, when to extend it, and when to introduce something new
• • A demonstrated ability to give and receive thoughtful feedback, mentor others, and raise the quality bar across a design organization
• • Comfortable operating in ambiguity, making decisions with incomplete information, and balancing strategic thinking with a bias for action
• • 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
• • Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact
• • Experience designing products in cybersecurity, compliance, GRC, IT, infrastructure, financial services, or another complex and regulated domain is a plus
• • Experience with tools such as Figma and familiarity with front-end technologies or design system implementation workflows is a plus