Staff Visual Product Designer, Design Systems
RemoteFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Staff Visual Product Designer focused on Design Systems to shape Vanta's visual language and scalable system patterns across the product and engineering ecosystems.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve Vanta’s visual design language across product surfaces, creating a cohesive, distinctive, and scalable customer experience.
Qualifications
- 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.
- 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.
- A strong commitment to Vanta’s principles: putting customers first, biasing for action, winning as one team, deciding with frameworks, leading with resilience, and doing what it says on the tin.
- 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.
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
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Vanta
Automate compliance, manage risk, and accelerate trust with AI
Vanta automates the complex and time-consuming process of SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI, and GDPR compliance certification. Automate your security monitoring in weeks instead of months.
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