San Francisco, California

Design Manager

Vanta is on a mission to secure the internet and protect consumer data. We do this today by automating security and compliance for hundreds of companies. As the Design Manager, you will lead Vanta’s design team. This is a player-coach role where your responsibilities will include both people management and product design. You’ll be involved in the entire product development process from strategic planning and visioning to creating intuitive designs and launching solutions that solve our customers’ most pressing needs.

If you are passionate about managing and growing teams of product designers and are a builder of customer-delighting products who wants to have outsize impact at a high-growth company, we would love to hear from you!‍

The role

You will...

Directly manage, coach and mentor Vanta’s design team
Recruit, interview and hire new Product Designers and actively improve our design hiring process
Establish trust and build confidence with cross-functional partners and leadership across Product, Research, Engineering, and Customer Success; collaborate cross-functionally to deliver world-class experiences
Nurture the team's culture and norms, evolving them as our company grows
Set expectations and maintain high standards of quality of the team’s work; chart a clear course for how the team can get there over time
Drive the team's UX vision and strategy, connecting their impact to the highest business outcomes
With your team, identify, understand, and solve complex problems to address user needs
Partner with product and engineering teams to create products from concept to launch

You might...

Have 4+ years of experience managing a team of designers
Have experience leading and collaborating with diverse teams in a dynamic, rapid growth environment
Be interested in the combination of people management and contributing as an IC product designer
Have a strong design background, with a track record of shipping high quality products
Know how to work through complex user problems to arrive at elegant, simple solutions
Have experience balancing long-term design goals with a quick, iterative development process
Be a strategic thinker who has experience working at different altitudes, across the entire customer journey
Have experience working on B2B SaaS products

Benefits

We offer competitive benefits, as you may expect:

Industry-competitive salary and equity, as well as transparent compensation practices

Medical (mental and physical health), dental, and vision benefits

Paid parental leave for all parents

401(k) plan

Flexible work hours and location

Ergonomically-friendly workspace equipment

Open paid-time-off policy and 10 company holidays

Generous monthly stipend for commute to our SF office

Health and wellness focused company activities

Beyond these table stakes, our greatest benefit may be the opportunity to build a fundamental internet infrastructure: how a business becomes trustworthy and then proves its reliability.

About us

We started by building the simplest way for a company to prepare for a SOC 2 assessment.

We started with SOC 2 because it was the most common way for an internet business to prove its security. In the course of building for SOC 2, we built out a suite of security tools that every internet business needs: laptop management, account monitoring, employee onboarding and offboarding, cloud infrastructure configuration, policy documentation, and more.

Over time, we’ll add additional certifications (HIPAA, ISO27001) and partner with industry experts to bolster the ways a business’ security is proved. We’re just getting started.

Our goal is to demystify internet security to the average person, equipping beginners with sane defaults and growing them into security-savvy principals who can explain how their company protects customer data and why their business is worthy of your trust.

Vanta’s mission is to secure the internet and protect consumer data