Senior Product Designer, Risk Modeling

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the complete design process for Risk Modeling projects, from initial problem identification and discovery through to launch, evaluation, and iterative improvements.

• Simplify intricate risk concepts and workflows, including risk registers, risk scenarios, scoring models, treatment plans, approvals, and residual risk.

• Develop user experiences that enable risk managers and business stakeholders to model the potential impact of future risks.

• Establish frameworks for reviewing, approving, updating, and auditing risk-related decisions while maintaining context and justification.

• Create information architecture and interaction models for customizable, data-intensive workflows across risk registers, detailed views, dashboards, reports, and related product interfaces.

• Define product patterns and principles that promote reliable risk management, focusing on transparency, permissions, auditability, explainability, and handling uncertainty.

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to assess tradeoffs, prioritize opportunities, and identify when configuration, automation, or guided workflows are most beneficial for customers.

• Engage in customer discovery and usability testing involving risk managers, security and compliance leaders, risk owners, business stakeholders, and occasional contributors.

• Convert customer insights, product requirements, domain complexities, technical limitations, and data considerations into clear design directives.

• Work alongside Design Systems and product designers to develop reusable, high-quality risk management experiences.

• Produce design briefs, domain models, workflow diagrams, prototypes, specifications, and other essential artifacts.

• Articulate design rationale, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to cross-functional partners and leadership teams.

• Participate in design critiques and enhance quality in interaction design, information architecture, UX writing, data visualization, and visual craftsmanship.

• Influence how Vanta clarifies complex risk information, making it understandable, actionable, and customizable.

• Identify enhancements to foster collaboration between the design team and product teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in product design.

• Proficient in B2B SaaS, complex workflows, enterprise software, or other intricate products.

• Experience in designing enterprise, admin, risk, security, compliance, finance, or other high-stakes products that involve multiple user types and complex decision-making processes.

• Proven track record in designing configurable systems that cater to various personas, permissions, workflows, and interconnected objects.

• Strong systemic thinking skills across interconnected entities like risks, controls, assets, vendors, owners, treatments, and reports.

• Experience in creating data-rich interfaces, tables, reporting systems, information architecture, or other experiences that aid users in comprehending complex information.

• Excellent product thinking and discovery abilities.

• High level of craftsmanship in interaction design, information architecture, UX writing, data visualization, and visual design.

• Strong collaboration skills across functions with Product, Engineering, Research, Data, customer-facing teams, and domain specialists.

• Considerate approach to permissions, sensitive information, auditability, explainability, uncertainty, and recovery from inaccurate or incomplete inputs.

• A portfolio showcasing completed projects, complex workflows, significant tradeoffs, and learning gleaned from customers or users.

• Capability to navigate between domain-level and systems-level thinking and detailed interaction design.

• Clear communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional partners without formal authority.

• Demonstrated curiosity, sound judgment, and comfort in navigating complex product environments.

• Proficient in using modern tools, including AI where applicable, with strong judgment and a commitment to high-quality standards.

• Must possess authorization to work in the U.S. without current or future employer sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance, with 100% coverage of employee-only premiums for most medical plans.

• 16 weeks of fully paid Parental Leave for all new parents.

• Health & wellness stipend.

• Stipend for remote workspace, internet, and cellphone expenses.

• Commuter benefits for team members reporting to the SF and NYC offices.

• Family planning benefits.

• Matching 401(k) contributions with immediate vesting.

• Flexible Paid Time Off 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.

• Additional company perk programs.