Staff Visual Product Designer, Design Systems

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve Vanta’s visual design language across product surfaces.
• Set a high bar for typography, color, layout, iconography, illustration, motion, data visualization, and interaction details.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Research, Content Design, and Brand teams on system-level solutions.
• Own foundational design system elements, including design tokens, component states, responsive behavior, theming, density, and platform adaptations.
• Create reusable patterns, guidance, documentation, examples, and enablement materials.
• Design and prototype system components and end-to-end product experiences.
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure fidelity, accessibility, performance, and maintainability.
• Establish design principles, standards, and review practices.
• Improve accessibility across color, contrast, typography, motion, and interaction states.
• Use customer insights, product data, usability feedback, and competitive research to improve the system.
• Facilitate critiques, workshops, and cross-functional reviews.
• Influence product strategy and roadmap decisions through design perspectives, narratives, and prototypes.
• Mentor product designers and contribute to design craft and critique culture.
• Define and measure design-system impact through adoption, consistency, accessibility, usability, delivery efficiency, and customer outcomes.
• Represent Design Systems in planning, product reviews, and cross-functional forums.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience designing digital products, including significant visual product design experience for complex B2B SaaS or enterprise software.
• Deep expertise in visual design, including typography, color, composition, layout, iconography, illustration, motion, interaction states, and data visualization.
• Portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual craft, systems thinking, and product-experience improvements at component and workflow levels.
• Experience creating, evolving, and scaling product design systems used by multiple teams.
• Strong understanding of design tokens, component architecture, responsive design, accessibility, and design-to-front-end implementation workflows.
• Experience translating ambiguous customer and product problems into clear, reusable visual solutions.
• Experience partnering with engineers and making pragmatic implementation decisions.
• Strong product thinking and understanding of customer needs, business goals, technical constraints, and connected product workflows.
• Excellent communication, storytelling, facilitation, and cross-functional influence skills.
• Ability to balance consistency and flexibility in design systems.
• Ability to give and receive feedback, mentor others, and raise quality standards.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and balancing strategic thinking with action.
• Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.
• Commitment to protecting company and customer data.
• Willingness to use AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in cybersecurity, compliance, GRC, IT, infrastructure, financial services, or another complex and regulated domain.
• Experience with Figma and familiarity with front-end technologies or design system implementation workflows.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary: $236,000–$278,000 annually.
• Industry-competitive equity.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with employee-only premiums covered for most medical plans.
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Health and wellness stipend.
• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipends.
• Commuter benefits for eligible office-reporting team members.
• Family planning benefits.
• Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting.
• Flexible paid time off, 80 hours of sick time, and 11 company-paid holidays.