Staff Visual Product Designer, Design Systems

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it.  The Design Systems team creates the visual and interaction foundations that help Vanta deliver coherent, accessible, and high-quality experiences across the product. This team partners across the EPD organization to build the systems, patterns, and practices that enable product teams to move faster while maintaining a high bar for craft and usability. As a Staff Visual Product Designer focused on Design Systems at Vanta, you will shape the visual language of our product and the systems that bring it to life. You will define and evolve scalable patterns across our design and engineering ecosystems, partner closely with product designers and engineers, and help create a cohesive experience for customers navigating complex security and compliance workflows. You’ll combine exceptional visual craft with systems thinking, product judgment, and the ability to influence across teams. What you’ll do as a Staff Visual Product Designer, Design Systems at Vanta: - Define and evolve Vanta’s visual design language across product surfaces, creating a cohesive, distinctive, and scalable customer experience. - Set a high bar for visual craft across typography, color, layout, iconography, illustration, motion, data visualization, and interaction details. - Partner with Design Systems, Product, Engineering, Research, Content Design, and Brand teams to translate customer and business needs into effective system-level solutions. - Own and evolve foundational design system elements, including design tokens, component visual states, responsive behavior, theming, density, and platform-specific adaptations. - Create reusable patterns and guidance that help product teams solve common problems consistently while preserving flexibility for different customer workflows. - Design and prototype system components and end-to-end product experiences, using high-fidelity exploration to communicate intent and accelerate alignment. - Bring visual clarity and hierarchy to complex, data-rich workflows used by security, compliance, IT, legal, finance, and business stakeholders. - Collaborate with engineers to ensure designs are implemented with fidelity, accessibility, performance, and maintainability in mind. - Establish principles, standards, and review practices that raise the quality and consistency of product design across Vanta. - Advocate for inclusive and accessible visual design, ensuring that color, contrast, typography, motion, and interaction states work for a broad range of users and contexts. - Help define how the design system supports emerging product needs, including AI-powered experiences, personalization, automation, and increasingly complex enterprise workflows. - Use customer insights, product data, usability feedback, and competitive research to identify opportunities to improve the system and its impact. - Working AI-natively: uses AI tools throughout the design process, and has shipped designs for non-deterministic, AI-powered experiences (chat, agentic modalities, etc). - Facilitate critiques, workshops, and cross-functional reviews that help teams make stronger visual and product decisions. - Influence product strategy and roadmap decisions through strong design perspectives, compelling narratives, prototypes, and a clear point of view. - Mentor product designers and contribute to a culture of thoughtful critique, continuous learning, experimentation, and customer obsession. - Create documentation, examples, and enablement materials that make the design system easy to understand, adopt, and extend. - Define and measure the impact of the design system through adoption, consistency, accessibility, usability, delivery efficiency, and customer outcomes. - Represent Design Systems in planning processes, product reviews, and other cross-functional forums, helping teams align around a shared vision for the Vanta experience. - Contribute to the broader Design organization by sharing best practices, strengthening design craft, and improving how Vanta approaches visual product quality. How to be successful in this role: - 8+ years of experience designing digital products, with significant experience in visual product design for complex B2B SaaS or enterprise software. - Deep expertise in visual design for digital products, including typography, color, composition, layout, iconography, illustration, motion, interaction states, and data visualization. - A strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual craft, thoughtful systems thinking, and the ability to improve product experiences at both the component and end-to-end workflow level. - Experience creating, evolving, and scaling product design systems used by multiple teams across a growing organization. - Strong understanding of design tokens, component architecture, responsive design, accessibility, and the relationship between design tools and front-end implementation. - A track record of turning ambiguous product and customer problems into clear, elegant, and reusable visual solutions. - Experience partnering closely with engineers to bring detailed visual designs to life and to make pragmatic decisions when implementation constraints arise. - Strong product thinking, with the ability to understand customer needs, business goals, technical constraints, and the broader relationships among product surfaces and workflows. - Excellent communication, storytelling, and facilitation skills, with the ability to influence product and engineering partners without relying on formal authority. - Experience balancing consistency and flexibility, knowing when to use an existing pattern, when to extend it, and when to introduce something new. - A demonstrated ability to give and receive thoughtful feedback, mentor others, and raise the quality bar across a design organization. - Comfortable operating in ambiguity, making decisions with incomplete information, and balancing strategic thinking with a bias for action. - Experience designing products in cybersecurity, compliance, GRC, IT, infrastructure, financial services, or another complex and regulated domain is a plus. - Experience with tools such as Figma and familiarity with front-end technologies or design system implementation workflows is a plus. - A strong commitment to Vanta’s principles: putting customers first, biasing for action, winning as one team, deciding with frameworks, leading with resilience, and doing what it says on the tin. - Required: Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Computer Science, or a related field. - Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future employer sponsorship. - Responsible for protecting Vanta and customer data in how you operate and deliver results. - Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact. What you can expect as a Vanta’n: - Industry-competitive salary and equity - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans - 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents - Health & wellness stipend - Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend - Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office - Family planning benefits - Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting - Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time - 11 company-paid holidays - Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events! - Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors and may vary based on candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials. #LI-remote At Vanta, we are committed to hiring diverse talent of different backgrounds and as such, it is important to us to provide an inclusive work environment for all. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender identity, age, religion, sexual orientation, veteran or disability status, or any other protected class. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage and welcome people of all backgrounds to apply. About Vanta We started in 2018, in the wake of several high-profile data breaches. Online security was only becoming more important, but we knew firsthand how hard it could be for fast-growing companies to invest the time and manpower it takes to build a solid security foundation. Vanta was inspired by a vision to restore trust in internet businesses by enabling companies to improve and prove their security. From our early days automating security monitoring for compliance standards like SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 to creating the world's leading Trust Management Platform, our vision remains unchanged.  Now more than ever, making security continuous—not just a point-in-time check— is essential. Thousands of companies rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust— all in a way that's real-time and transparent. Referral Instructions If you are being referred for the role, please contact that person to apply on your behalf.