Senior Product Design Manager, GRC

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: Full-Time
• Salary: $225K - $265K

At Vanta, our mission is to secure the internet and protect consumer data. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it.

As a Product Design Manager at Vanta, you’ll lead a growing design team that’s responsible for maturing our Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) product, including redesigning existing products and launching new products. Vanta’s design team is warm, collaborative, talented, and ambitious. We love digging into user needs, sorting out complex problems, and designing solutions that help the whole Vanta product work better together. While some of us have prior security experience, it’s by no means required.

You will thrive at Vanta if you are passionate about building both teams and products, and if you embrace ambiguity, complexity, and the autonomy to shape our experience strategy and how we work as a team. We expect you to play an integral role as a thought leader, shaping our design practice as we continue to scale rapidly.

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow a team of designers working across multiple EPD squads.
• Bring new capabilities to the Vanta platform that help better meet the needs of a wide range of customers: from small startups who value speed, to large companies with complex requirements.
• Ensure that efforts across multiple teams fit together to form a coherent product, from design system details, to workflows, all the way up to mental models.
• Coach and mentor a growing team of Product Designers, providing the expertise, direction, and support needed for high performance.
• Build a best-in-class team, maintaining high standards for customer experience, design quality, and team cohesion.
• Establish strong partnerships with Product and Engineering teams, fostering a sense of joint ownership and effective collaboration.
• Work cross-functionally with partners in GTM.
• Contribute to the product strategy and roadmap, working with Engineering and Product partners.
• Create the design vision for your domain, aligning it with our business strategy, advocating for customer outcomes and world-class user experience.

Requirements

• 10+ years of product design experience, with deep experience working on complex B2B and B2C SaaS products.
• 3+ years of successfully building and managing design teams.
• Evidence of getting into the details to uphold a high standard of B2B design quality (UX and UI) and craftsmanship in your team’s work.
• Proven track record of producing designs that impact the business – by digging in yourself, leading through others, and influencing internal stakeholders.
• Deep experience partnering well with product management and engineering counterparts.
• Passion for leading, coaching, and building an inspired team through setting vision, unlocking potential, and driving compassionate accountability.
• Ability to establish a vibrant, opinionated, and inclusive design culture.
• Deep curiosity about AI and cybersecurity. Prior experience in security is helpful but not required.
• Portfolio Requirement: A portfolio demonstrating work produced by your teams that has impacted the business, and operational practices you have implemented which have led to a higher functioning team.

What you can expect as a Vantan

• Industry-competitive salary and equity
• 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
• 16 weeks fully-paid parental Leave for all new parents
• Health & wellness and remote workplace stipends
• Family planning b