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Vanta is a Series D trust management platform that helps businesses earn and prove security compliance continuously. The Risk Modeling team is building product experiences that transform how organizations identify, assess, prioritize, and communicate risk—moving complex workflows from fragmented spreadsheets into clear, connected, actionable systems.
As a Senior Product Designer on the Risk Modeling team, you will lead end-to-end design for complex risk management features. You'll shape how security, compliance, and business leaders interact with risk registers, risk scenarios, configurable scoring models, treatment plans, approvals, and residual risk reporting. Your work will establish foundational patterns that influence product teams across Vanta.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead design from problem framing and discovery through launch, measurement, and iteration
- Make complex risk concepts and workflows understandable to multiple user types
- Design information architecture and interaction models for data-dense, configurable workflows
- Establish product patterns for trustworthy risk management: transparency, permissions, auditability, explainability, and uncertainty handling
- Conduct customer discovery and usability testing with risk managers, security leaders, and business stakeholders
- Translate customer insights, product requirements, domain complexity, and technical constraints into clear design direction
- Collaborate with Design Systems and cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, Research, Data, Customer Success) to create reusable, high-quality experiences
- Create design artifacts: briefs, domain models, workflow maps, prototypes, and specifications
- Communicate design rationale, tradeoffs, and recommendations to cross-functional partners and leadership
- Contribute to design critique and raise the quality bar for interaction design, information architecture, UX writing, data visualization, and visual craft
- Identify opportunities to improve how the design organization and product teams collaborate
Requirements:
- 7+ years of product design experience with depth in B2B SaaS, complex workflows, enterprise software, or sophisticated products
- Experience designing enterprise, admin, risk, security, compliance, finance, or other high-stakes products with multiple user types and complex decision-making
- Experience designing configurable systems with multiple personas, permissions, workflows, and interconnected objects
- Strong systems thinking across interconnected objects (risks, controls, assets, vendors, owners, treatments, reports)
- Experience designing data-dense interfaces, tables, reporting, information architecture, or experiences that help users understand complex information
- Strong product thinking and discovery skills: ability to frame ambiguous problems, learn complex domains, and identify key questions
- High craft in interaction design, information architecture, UX writing, data visualization, and visual design
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, particularly with Product, Engineering, Research, Data, customer-facing teams, and domain experts
- Thoughtful approach to designing for permissions, sensitive information, auditability, explainability, uncertainty, and error recovery
- Portfolio demonstrating shipped work, complex workflows, meaningful tradeoffs, and customer learning
- Ability to move fluidly between domain and systems-level thinking and detailed interaction design
- Clear communication skills and ability to influence cross-functional partners without formal authority
- Curiosity, sound judgment, and comfort working in complex product spaces where customer needs and best practices are still evolving
- Proficiency with modern design tools, including AI where helpful, while maintaining high quality standards
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future employer sponsorship
