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Principal UX Designer

Palo Alto Networks 🇺🇸 California, United States of America

Onsite $137,500 - $222,375 Full-time Senior

Leads complex cross-team initiatives to build scalable, AI-enhanced design processes and integrations. Aligns stakeholders around design decisions and elevates the quality of work across the product through mentorship and critique.

Responsibilities

  • Leads large, complex cross-team initiatives, using Gen AI or any other tools/plugins to automate process and create efficiency
  • Works with engineering to create integrations and leverage MCP (Model Context Protocol)
  • Works with the UX and product team to build a scalable AI-enhanced design process, leveraging the design system but also keeping scope for innovation
  • Aligns stakeholders around clear design decisions
  • Demonstrates deep understanding of product strategy and roadmap
  • Partners proactively with PM and Engineering on future direction
  • Improves coherence across related areas of the product
  • Produces work that influences other designers
  • Makes reasoning explicit in critiques and decision discussions
  • Raises quality and clarity across the areas they influence, by actively elevating the work of other designers through critique, shared work, and making design reasoning and standards explicit

Requirements

  • Experience using Gen AI or other tools/plugins to automate processes and create efficiency
  • Ability to work with engineering to create integrations and leverage MCP (Model Context Protocol)
  • Experience working with UX and product teams to build a scalable AI-enhanced design process, leveraging the design system but also keeping scope for innovation
  • Ability to align stakeholders around clear design decisions
  • Deep understanding of product strategy and roadmap
  • Ability to partner proactively with PM and Engineering on future direction
  • Ability to improve coherence across related areas of the product
  • Ability to produce work that influences other designers
  • Ability to make reasoning explicit in critiques and decision discussions
  • Ability to raise quality and clarity across the areas they influence, by actively elevating the work of other designers through critique, shared work, and making design reasoning and standards explicit

Benefits

  • Competitive salary package
  • Restricted stock units
  • Bonus
  • Employee benefits (see company website for details)

Key Skills

User-centered design principles and practices UX/UI design Product design Design systems Style guides UI pattern libraries Responsive design principles Figma Adobe Creative Suite InVision Framer User research Usability testing Wireframing Prototyping User personas Journey maps Design artifacts Cross-functional collaboration Communication Problem-solving Adaptability Leadership Mentorship Design thinking Human-computer interaction (HCI) Front-end development Back-end development Full-stack development Agile development Scrum Kanban Version control systems (e.g., Git) Cloud-based technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) Gen AI or other tools/plugins MCP (Model Context Protocol)

About Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help address the world's greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. By delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.

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