Staff Product Designer

The Job

As a Staff Product Designer at Panther Labs, you will work directly with our engineers, PMs, and users to own the solution space of new features. Further, as a Staff Product Designer, you will lead cross-functional design efforts and strategy that impact the core of our business. Designers at Panther work full-stack from conducting user research, facilitating strategy and vision sessions, and validation with customers, to high-fidelity production-ready mocks and QA / Design testing.

The Company

Panther is a cybersecurity company with the mission of detecting any breach, anywhere. The company was founded by security practitioners that lived through the difficulty of trying to protect large organizations and wanting to build a solution that many teams could use. Panther solves modern security problems with detection-as-code, a cloud-native architecture, and robust security data lake. Panther’s platform, used by many industry innovators, enables security teams to focus on security, detect attacks, and protect their organizations without prohibitive overhead or excessive operational costs.

Backed by Coatue Management, Lightspeed Venture Partners, S28 Capital, Snowflake Ventures, ICONIQ Growth, and Innovation Endeavors, Panther has raised $140M, and is driving innovation disrupting the cyber security space.Panther's customers include industry-leading technology companies such as Figma, Gusto, Coinbase, and Dropbox, most of them being mid-large enterprises and they are very much modern technology cloud-forward companies.The company was featured for a second year in a row on EnterpriseTech30's startup list, most as recently as #6 on the list of mid stage, emerging technology companies!

Panther is a remote-first company with a culture of flexibility, written documentation, open company communication, and collaboration. Our values guide our every move: Create Customer Love, Be an Owner, and Take Care of the Team. We believe that by building a diverse group of remote individuals, we can push forward our mission and create a rewarding, inclusive, and fun work environment for our entire team.

The Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and security to discover and design one of the most loved security tools for our customers.
• Conduct user research, usability testing, and A/B testing to validate design decisions and find opportunities for innovation and differentiation.
• Understand user needs and translate them into user-centered design solutions.
• Create user-flows, detailed product wireframes, prototypes & beautiful visual UI that adheres to our design system.
• Create and influence design systems and style guides to ensure consistency and scalability.
• Work closely with developers to ensure the design is implemented accurately and according to specifications.
• Contribute to and use our design system to create full-fidelity mocks
• Collaborate closely with peers via design critiques and provide regular feedback

The Requirements

• Minimum 6 years of product design experience in the tech industry, ideally 1-2 years in the security industry.
• Expert knowledge of an end-to-end product design process, from user research to final mocks.
• Strong aesthetic design and product design work
• Ability to craft elegant designs that create delightful experiences for technical end users.
• You are a systems thinker, always looking for ways to improve the user experience and interactions.
• Proficient experience in product design tools, such as Figma.
• An excellent sense of product strategy and how it relates to the user experience and business needs.
• A commitment to collaboration, having worked closely with product, engineering, marketing, security and brand teams.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills; ability to succinctly present design decisions and process
• Experience designing for a technical SaaS product is preferred, including security, data ingestion, observability, etc.

Cash compensation range: 165,000-200,000 USD Annually

The cash compensation above includes base salary and on-target commission for employees in eligible roles. In addition to cash compensation, all full-time Pantherinos are eligible to participate in our equity plan to receive Incentive Stock Options (ISO). Individual compensation packages are based on a few factors unique to each candidate, including their location, experience, and expertise, and may vary from the above-mentioned range.

The Perks

• Equity
• Unlimited PTO policy, with a minimum requirement of 15 days off per year, observing major US holidays, as well as an end of the year break
• Latest tech equipment & budget for your customized tech needs
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401k program 
• Remote-friendly
• Opportunities to attend industry conferences  (remote or in-person, and in conjunction with our in-person health and safety policy)
• Annual company off-sites in awesome locations (in conjunction with our in-person health and safety policy)

Panther labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Company prohibits discrimination and harassment on the basis of: race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, religious creed, physical disability, mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other status protected by law. All employment decisions are decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.