Senior Product Designer, Vendor Risk Management

At Vanta, our mission is to secure the internet and protect consumer data. 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.

We are currently seeking a Senior Product Designer for our Vendor Risk Management (VRM) team, which helps our vendors manage risks more efficiently using AI-powered solutions and workflows.

Your focus will be on boosting user efficiency, enhancing features for better customer satisfaction, and showing product value through insights and reporting. In this role you’ll help shape the future of our VRM platform by:

• Exploring new frontiers with how new AI technologies can automate critical security workflows

• Leading new projects to drive AI powered insights, automate manual and repetitive tasks and simplify complex workflows to create integrated product experiences.

• Influencing key features across the company by creating design guidelines that ensure a seamless experience for all Vanta customers.

Ideal candidates have a proven track record of creating exceptional B2B SaaS products that deliver impactful customer experiences while streamlining complex workflows. You thrive in ambiguous and complex environments, using autonomy to drive innovation and improve ease of use for knowledge management and workflow automation.

With strong collaboration skills, you’ll work closely with Product Management and Engineering to translate customer needs into successful business outcomes. While experience in GRC or security is a plus, it’s not required—many of our team members have excelled without prior industry experience.

The Experience Design organization champions our customers by creating and delivering efficient consumer grade experiences through our trust management platform. We aim to earn their trust and contribute to a more secure internet. By providing valuable solutions, we empower Vanta to grow as a business. Our role is vital to the company’s strategic direction, and you will have a significant impact on our product development.

You will report to a Design Director within the Product Design Organization.

What you’ll do as a Senior Product Designer at Vanta:

• Lead the design and execution of strategic, shared components and features that drive significant customer value and promote consistency across the platform.

• Engage in customer discovery to shape feature strategy and design scalable experiences that align with the Trust pillar and VRM team's goals.

• Collaborate with product teams to identify and advocate for design initiatives that have a broad organizational impact.

• Foster collaboration among design peers to ensure shared solutions are effective and adaptable across various areas of the platform.

• Enhance our design system, ensuring additions support strategic objectives and uphold high design standards across the organization.

How to be successful in this role:

• 6+ years of experience delivering high-quality B2B SaaS products on large-scale projects, with a strong focus on high-quality design execution.

• Proven ability to create designs that drive business impact by deeply understanding the domain, leveraging customer insights, validating decisions through research, and influencing internal stakeholders.

• Demonstrated success in leading the design process from ambiguity to execution for entire product areas, maintaining high executional quality and organizational impact.

• Prior experience designing automated processes and utilizing AI to effectively solve customer pain points.

• Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams (e.g., subject matter experts, engineers, sales), translating complex technical concepts into intuitive, customer-friendly designs.

• Proven ability to mentor and influence others, including senior and executive management teams, driving design strategy, systemic thinking, and product sensibility.

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, solving complex problems, and managing projects with proactive escalation handling.

• Excellent communication skills, capable of articulating design concepts to diverse audiences.

• A portfolio is required, showcasing consumer-grade craftsmanship and product solutions tailored to customer needs.

What you can expect as a Vantan:

• Industry-competitive compensation

• 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage

• 16 weeks fully-paid parental Leave for all new parents

• Health & wellness and remote workplace stipends

• Family planning benefits through Carrot Fertility

• 401(k) matching

• Flexible work hours and location

• Open PTO policy

• 11 paid holidays in the US

• Offices in SF, NYC, Dublin, London, 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.

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.