Senior Product Designer, Agent Experience
Remote$197k - $232kFull-timePosted 4w ago
About the role
Senior Product Designer responsible for shaping AI agent experiences, focusing on agent harness, agents, skills, tools, and memory to create trustworthy, transparent, and high-quality experiences across Vanta surfaces including Slack and other integrations.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end design for projects across the agent harness, from problem framing and discovery through launch and iteration.
- Define how agents, skills, tools, and memory are composed, surfaced, and understood by customers.
- Design experiences that help customers delegate real security and compliance work while maintaining visibility, control, and confidence.
- Create patterns for reviewing, correcting, approving, interrupting, and recovering from agent-generated work.
- Design conversational and agent interaction models across Vanta, Slack, and other surfaces where our agents appear.
- Establish product patterns and principles for trustworthy agent behavior, including transparency, permissions, uncertainty, explainability, and graceful failure.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to evaluate when an agent is the right solution for a customer problem.
- Conduct customer discovery and usability testing with security, compliance, and GRC users.
- Translate customer insights, product requirements, technical constraints, and AI quality considerations into clear design direction.
- Collaborate with Design Systems and product designers across Vanta to turn emerging AI patterns into reusable, high-quality experiences.
- Create design briefs, workflow models, prototypes, specifications, and other artifacts that bring clarity to complex problems.
- Communicate design rationale, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations clearly to cross-functional partners and leadership.
- Contribute to design critique and help raise the quality bar for interaction design, information architecture, UX writing, and visual craft.
- Help shape how Vanta approaches responsible AI and human control across the product.
- Identify opportunities to improve how the design organization and product teams work together.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of product design experience, with depth in B2B SaaS, complex workflows, or other sophisticated software products.
- Experience designing AI-powered products, automation, or systems where product behavior may be dynamic or uncertain.
- Ability to design agent experiences beyond chat, including systems involving agents, skills, tools, memory, and multi-step workflows.
- Experience designing products that require human judgment, including deciding when and how to bring a person into an automated workflow.
- Experience designing across surfaces that a product team may not fully control, such as Slack, terminal environments, or other third-party interfaces.
- Strong product thinking and discovery skills, including the ability to frame ambiguous problems and identify the right questions to answer.
- High craft in interaction design, information architecture, UX writing, and visual design.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, particularly with Product, Engineering, Research, Data, and customer-facing teams.
- A thoughtful approach to responsible AI, including transparency, data control, human review, explainability, and recovery from incorrect or incomplete outputs.
- A portfolio that demonstrates shipped work, complex workflows, meaningful tradeoffs, and learning from customers or users.
- Ability to move fluidly between systems-level thinking and detailed interaction design.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to influence cross-functional partners without formal authority.
- Curiosity, sound judgment, and comfort working in emerging product spaces where patterns and best practices are still taking shape.
- Uses AI in day-to-day work to amplify their skills and strengthen their outcomes, applying it across routine workflows, actively building fluency through experimentation, and exercising sound judgment to ensure AI-assisted work meets a high quality bar.
- 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.
Skills
Required:Product designAI/ML product designCross-functional collaboration
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!
Last updated Sep 24, 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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