Senior Product Designer

Senior Product Designer to join Semgrep's design team, focusing on improving security and software engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute ambiguously scoped design initiatives within and across product teams.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to define product direction and roadmap decisions that are grounded in user needs.
• Advocate for simple and thoughtfully designed workflows across Semgrep products, owning UX metrics like task success, time on task, and support ticket volume.
• Conduct hands-on user research and synthesize and share the knowledge you gain about users and their workflows.
• Build strong cross-functional relationships and involve the wider team in the design process.
• Contribute to design critiques and mentor teammates.
• Raise the bar for design quality and contribute to a culture of thoughtful feedback.
• Create tools that enable non-designers to make better design decisions to ensure design becomes a multiplier across the organization.
• Establish design standards and processes that will serve as the foundation for our growing team, helping scale design’s impact.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product design experience working on digital products, ideally with exposure to engineer-focused, B2B, or enterprise products.
• A strong understanding of software engineering or experience designing for a technical audience.
• A track record for simplifying complex workflows and making abstract problems more concrete.
• Enthusiasm for user research and a curiosity that motivates you to dig deep into user pain points and behaviors.
• The ability to balance systems thinking with attention to detail, and to iterate quickly while maintaining a high quality bar.
• An interest in experimenting with and prototyping using emerging tools as part of your design process.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Key Skills

• Systems thinking
• Attention to detail
• Iterative design process
• User research
• Prototyping
• Excellent communication skills

Benefits

• Equity and benefits in addition to salary.
• Comprehensive health plans, generous vacation time, 401k, learning stipends, and more.
• Flexible work arrangements with travel to SF or NY offices at least 1 week per quarter.