Senior Product Designer, Risk Modeling

Vanta

. Lead end-to-end design for Risk Modeling projects from problem framing and discovery through launch, measurement, and iteration .

Posted 10/16/2026full-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 complex, configurable systems for risk management, focusing on user experience, information architecture, and cross-functional collaboration. Proven ability to translate customer insights into actionable design solutions while maintaining high standards of craft and clarity.

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Product Design ExperienceB2B SaaS ExpertiseInformation Architecture DesignCross-Functional CollaborationData Visualization Skills

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Hard Skills

Risk ModelingComplex WorkflowsConfigurable Systems DesignInteraction DesignUX WritingData-Dense InterfacesDesign PrototypingWorkflow MappingDesign Brief CreationSystems Thinking

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationCuriositySound JudgmentCollaboration SkillsInfluencing Without Authority

Tools & Technologies

Design SystemsPrototyping ToolsAI Tools

Industry Keywords

Enterprise SoftwareRisk ManagementComplianceSecurityFinanceUser ExperienceHigh-Stakes ProductsAuditabilityTransparencyPermissions

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead end-to-end design for Risk Modeling projects from problem framing and discovery through launch, measurement, and iteration
Make complex risk concepts and workflows understandable, including risk registers, risk scenarios, scoring models, treatment plans, approvals, and residual risk
Design experiences that help risk managers and business stakeholders model future risk impact
Create patterns for reviewing, approving, updating, and auditing risk decisions while preserving context and rationale
Design information architecture and interaction models for configurable, data-dense workflows across risk registers, detail views, dashboards, reports, and related product surfaces
Establish product patterns and principles for trustworthy risk management, including transparency, permissions, auditability, explainability, and uncertainty handling
Partner with Product and Engineering to evaluate tradeoffs, prioritize opportunities, and determine when configuration, automation, or guided workflows best serve customers
Conduct customer discovery and usability testing with risk managers, security and compliance leaders, risk owners, business stakeholders, and occasional contributors
Translate customer insights, product requirements, domain complexity, technical constraints, and data considerations into clear design direction
Collaborate with Design Systems and product designers to create reusable, high-quality risk-management experiences
Create design briefs, domain models, workflow maps, prototypes, specifications, and other artifacts
Communicate design rationale, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to cross-functional partners and leadership
Contribute to design critique and raise quality in interaction design, information architecture, UX writing, data visualization, and visual craft
Shape how Vanta makes complex risk information clear, actionable, and configurable
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, enterprise software, or other sophisticated products
Experience designing enterprise, admin, risk, security, compliance, finance, or other high-stakes products with multiple user types and complex decision-making
Experience designing configurable systems with multiple personas, permissions, workflows, and interconnected objects
Strong systems thinking across interconnected objects, such as risks, controls, assets, vendors, owners, treatments, and reports
Experience designing data-dense interfaces, tables, reporting, information architecture, or other experiences that help users understand complex information
Strong product thinking and discovery skills
High craft in interaction design, information architecture, UX writing, data visualization, and visual design
Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with Product, Engineering, Research, Data, customer-facing teams, and domain experts
Thoughtful approach to permissions, sensitive information, auditability, explainability, uncertainty, and recovery from incorrect or incomplete inputs
Portfolio demonstrating shipped work, complex workflows, meaningful tradeoffs, and learning from customers or users
Ability to move between domain and 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 complex product spaces
Uses modern tools, including AI where helpful, with sound judgment and a high quality bar
Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future employer sponsorship

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
16 weeks fully-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
Medical benefits
401(k) plan
Other company perk programs