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Fortanix is a data-centric cybersecurity company specializing in hybrid multicloud environments, using advanced cryptography, encryption, and Confidential AI solutions. The company is recognized as a Great Place to Work and has earned multiple Cybersecurity Excellence and Innovation Awards.
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Staff UX Designer to lead UX design initiatives across Fortanix's enterprise cybersecurity products. This role combines hands-on UX design, strategic leadership, and mentorship. You will oversee complex design initiatives from concept through implementation, establish UX standards and best practices, and ensure a cohesive experience across multiple products.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead cross-product UX initiatives: Own complex UX projects from concept through implementation, ensuring intuitive, scalable, and consistent experiences across Fortanix products.
- Drive UX strategy and design standards: Establish and maintain design systems, interaction patterns, and UX best practices that improve usability and consistency.
- Provide design leadership and mentorship: Guide designers, review design work, support professional development, and promote high standards of design quality.
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner with Product Management, Engineering, and business stakeholders to align design priorities, resolve challenges, and deliver high-quality solutions.
- Improve design processes: Identify opportunities to streamline workflows, balance priorities, and increase team efficiency and effectiveness.
- Champion user-centered design: Apply UX research, prototyping, accessibility principles, and usability best practices to solve complex customer challenges.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional UX or product design experience, including significant experience designing enterprise SaaS applications.
- 4+ years of UX team leadership or management experience, including mentoring and developing designers.
- Deep expertise in UX research, interaction design, prototyping, information architecture, and usability principles.
- Experience leading complex, end-to-end product design initiatives from discovery through launch.
- Strong understanding of accessibility, scalability, design systems, and consistent cross-product user experiences.
- Proven ability to collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and senior leadership in a technical environment.
- Excellent communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in HCI, UX Design, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing complex enterprise SaaS products in cybersecurity, data security, cloud infrastructure, or similar technical environments.
- Experience developing and scaling design systems and UX standards across multiple products.
- Demonstrated success leading UX initiatives with geographically distributed Product and Engineering teams.
- Experience hiring, managing, and developing high-performing UX teams.
- Strong design leadership skills, with the ability to challenge existing approaches, influence decisions, and drive continuous improvement.
