Staff Product Designer

What You’ll Do

Horizon3.ai is in search of a Staff Product Designer to join our team to expand our portfolio of autonomous pentesting solutions. At Horizon3.ai, you'll be at the forefront of innovation in cybersecurity. With the opportunity to shape the future of autonomous pentesting solutions, your work will have a meaningful impact on businesses and consumers worldwide. The products you design and launch will help keep companies secure through cutting edge design patterns and intuitive user interfaces. You will have the opportunity to create new categories of products that haven’t previously existed, and work closely with customers and engineers to bring your designs to life.

You will be successful in the role if

You are a self-starter who can excel in a fast-paced environment with experience in taking ownership of product design activities. You work closely with customers and engineering teams to take technical concepts and transform them into product experiences that differentiate Horizon3.ai.

• Distill complex problems into approachable steps through researching, sketching, and sharing ideas with your cross-functional partners
• Partner with other designers to collaborate on shared patterns, product vision, and design guidelines
• Translate security concepts into intuitive user-centered design proposals, utilizing tools like Figma to create wireframes, prototypes, mockups, and ensuring designs meet both user needs and security standards.
• Work closely with product management, engineering teams, and users to integrate feedback and technical constraints into design, ensuring seamless functionality and aesthetic coherence.
• Incorporate best practices in accessibility to enhance product usability for a diverse range of users, ensuring compliance with WCAG 2.2 guidelines.
• Identify and resolve UX challenges, and strategically iterate on designs to improve user engagement and satisfaction.
• Regularly update and maintain the design system components in Figma to ensure design consistency.
• Help identify user needs and design challenges through intuition, quantitative research and internal usability testing, providing insights to guide design decisions.
• Champion new ideas that push the boundaries of what’s possible in leading edge cybersecurity interfaces.

What You’ll Bring

• Must have over 10 years of UX and/or Product Design experience
• 5+ years of experience designing in the enterprise SaaS and/or B2B security domain
• Track record of shipping world-class product designs in Figma, or comparable tools with relentless focus on delivering simple and intuitive solutions to complex problems (UX Design portfolio required, please provide a link).
• Experience working with and contributing to Design Systems
• Excellent communication skills - ability to communicate clearly and distinctly, both verbally and in writing with peers and stakeholders
• Deep understanding of technical limitations and front-end development techniques (HTML, CSS, JS frameworks)
• Experience working closely with customers and internal stakeholders to gather design feedback both 1:1 and in larger design sessions

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, NY area, DC metro area

Travel Required

This job may require up to 15% of travel to be successful. Job-related travel expenses are reviewed and must be approved by your manager.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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