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Sr. UX Designer

Tigera 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Hybrid $150,000 - $160,000 Full-time Senior

The Senior UX Designer will collaborate closely with product management, engineering, and customer-facing teams to shape the user experience of the cloud-native security and observability platform. They will lead end-to-end UX design processes and advocate for user-centered design throughout the product lifecycle.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate closely with product management, engineering, and customer-facing teams to shape the user experience of our cloud-native security & observability platform.
  • Lead end-to-end UX design: user research, persona development, workflows, information architecture, interaction design, high-fidelity mockups, prototyping, and hand-off to engineering.
  • Design for trust, transparency, and control for experiences involving intelligent agents, autonomous workflows, generative AI interfaces, and human-in-the-loop systems.
  • Advocate for user-centred design throughout the product lifecycle: you’ll challenge assumptions, synthesise feedback from customers and internal stakeholders, and iterate quickly.
  • Establish and maintain design systems, pattern libraries, and cross-product consistency to support scale and rapid growth.
  • Evaluate usability, accessibility, performance and emerging UI/UX trends in cloud/security infrastructure.
  • Engage our customers and users to develop detailed user personas, understand key tasks and workflows, and test design prototypes

Requirements

  • 6+ years of UX design experience (or equivalent) in SaaS, B2B, cloud-native infrastructure, security or observability domains.
  • A strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end UX work: research → design → prototype → delivery.
  • Expertise in interaction design, information architecture, prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD), and ability to translate complex workflows into clean, usable interfaces.
  • Experience working with engineering teams (especially agile, distributed teams), comfortable with handoffs and iterative delivery.
  • Prior experience working directly with customers to do user research and test design prototype
  • Excellent communication skills: you’ll translate technical problems into user-centric designs, articulate design rationale to cross-functional stakeholders, and enjoy constructive debate.
  • Comfort designing for high-impact enterprise audiences: network/security engineers, DevOps, SREs, cloud-native practitioners, and CxO buyers.
  • An insatiable level of curiosity and a constant learner

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package
  • Full health, vision, and dental benefits
  • Collaborative, flexible work environment
  • Opportunity to work with a diverse team of individuals from all over the world

Key Skills

UX design Interaction design Information architecture Prototyping tools (Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD) Cloud-native infrastructure Security Observability Agile methodologies User research Usability testing Design systems Pattern libraries Cross-functional collaboration Communication skills Design thinking User-centred design Enterprise design

About Tigera

Tigera provides Calico, a unified network security and observability platform to prevent, detect and mitigate security breaches in Kubernetes clusters. We are also the creator and maintainer of Calico Open Source, the most widely adopted container networking and security solution. Calico software powers more than 100M containers across 8M+ nodes in 166 countries, and is supported across all major cloud providers and Kubernetes distributions.

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