Senior Product Designer, Agent Experience

Vanta

. Define how AI agents help security and compliance teams accomplish meaningful work with greater clarity, control, and trust .

Posted 9/18/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $197,000 - $232,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing AI-powered products and complex workflows, with a strong focus on interaction design, information architecture, and user experience. Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally and communicate design rationale effectively while ensuring responsible AI practices.

Highest-signal resume keywords

7+ Years Of Product Design ExperienceB2B SaaS ExpertiseAI-Powered Product DesignCross-Functional CollaborationInteraction Design Craft

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Hard Skills

Product DesignAI Product DesignWorkflow DesignInteraction DesignInformation ArchitectureUX WritingVisual DesignUsability TestingPrototypingDesign Systems

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationCuriositySound JudgmentCollaboration SkillsInfluencing Without Authority

Tools & Technologies

SlackTerminal EnvironmentsDesign ToolsPrototyping ToolsAI Tools

Industry Keywords

SecurityComplianceGRCAutomationDynamic SystemsHuman ControlTransparencyExplainabilityData ControlUser-Centered Design

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define how AI agents help security and compliance teams accomplish meaningful work with greater clarity, control, and trust
Lead end-to-end design for agent harness projects from problem framing and discovery through launch and iteration
Define how agents, skills, tools, and memory are composed, surfaced, and understood by customers
Design workflows enabling customers to delegate security and compliance work while maintaining visibility, control, and confidence
Create patterns for reviewing, correcting, approving, interrupting, and recovering from agent-generated work
Design conversational and agent interaction models across Vanta, Slack, and other surfaces
Establish patterns and principles for trustworthy agent behavior, including transparency, permissions, uncertainty, explainability, and graceful failure
Partner with Product and Engineering to evaluate when an agent is appropriate
Conduct customer discovery and usability testing with security, compliance, and GRC users
Translate customer insights, requirements, technical constraints, and AI quality considerations into design direction
Collaborate with Design Systems and product designers to create reusable AI patterns
Create design briefs, workflow models, prototypes, specifications, and other design artifacts
Communicate design rationale, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to cross-functional partners and leadership
Contribute to design critique and raise standards for interaction design, information architecture, UX writing, and visual craft
Help shape responsible AI and human control across the product
Identify opportunities to improve collaboration between the design organization and product teams

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of product design experience
Depth in B2B SaaS, complex workflows, or other sophisticated software products
Experience designing AI-powered products, automation, or systems where product behavior may be dynamic or uncertain
Ability to design agent experiences beyond chat, including agents, skills, tools, memory, and multi-step workflows
Experience designing products requiring human judgment and decisions about human involvement in automated workflows
Experience designing across surfaces such as Slack, terminal environments, or other third-party interfaces
Strong product thinking and discovery skills
High craft in interaction design, information architecture, UX writing, and visual design
Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with Product, Engineering, Research, Data, and customer-facing teams
Thoughtful approach to responsible AI, including transparency, data control, human review, explainability, and recovery from incorrect or incomplete outputs
Portfolio demonstrating shipped work, complex workflows, meaningful tradeoffs, and learning from customers or users
Ability to move between systems-level thinking and detailed interaction design
Clear communication skills and ability to influence cross-functional partners without formal authority
Curiosity, sound judgment, and comfort working in emerging product spaces
Uses AI in day-to-day work and applies sound judgment to ensure AI-assisted work meets a high quality bar
Open to using AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact

Benefits

Comp & perks

Industry-competitive salary
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
80 hours of Sick Time
11 company-paid holidays
Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events