Vanta
Staff Product Designer, Design Systems
Remote U.S · Staff+
No sponsorshipDetected 26 days ago
ComplianceFigmaDesign SystemsAccessibilityHIPAALeadershipMentoring
About the role
- We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease.
- Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it.
- We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies.
Responsibilities
- Strong visual design foundation, with mastery of typography, color theory, spacing, interaction design, and accessibility principles. This role requires high craft, not just governance
- Comfort operating in ambiguity where org boundaries (e.g., between Design Systems and AI/Agent product work) aren't fully settled, and the judgment to help shape that structure rather than wait for it
- Experience collaborating closely with front-end engineers, with enough fluency in front-end code to reason credibly about design-to-code fidelity and, ideally, contribute directly
- Vanta's Design Systems team is the foundational layer that powers visual consistency, design quality, and engineering velocity across all of Vanta's product surfaces.
- We build and maintain Vanta's shared component library (Alpaca), design tokens, interaction patterns, and documentation, enabling product designers and engineers to ship high-quality, cohesive experiences at scale.
- You'll help define how a design system stays foundational when the product itself is becoming more dynamic and model-aware.
- Lead the strategy, evolution, and execution of Alpaca, ensuring it scales with the needs of a rapidly growing, increasingly AI-driven product organization
- Extend the design system to support AI and agent product patterns, including agent chat and canvas experiences and components that need to adapt based on runtime or model context
- Partner with product designers and engineers across every product team to define, document, and ship new components, patterns, and guidelines
- Establish and evolve governance models, contribution frameworks, and quality standards that let every designer at Vanta build consistently, including for AI-native surfaces that don't fit traditional static component thinking
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience as a product designer, with significant depth in design systems, ideally within complex B2B SaaS
- Expert-level proficiency in Figma, including variants, auto-layout, and design tokens, with experience publishing and managing shared libraries at scale
Skills
- A track record of mentoring other designers and raising the craft and systems literacy of the people around you
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future employer sponsorship.
- What you can expect as a Vanta'n:
- Industry-competitive salary and 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, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
Compensation
- Industry-competitive salary and equity
Benefits
- Drive design system adoption through education, tooling, and proactive partnership, especially with teams building agentic features who may be new to systems thinking
Company info
- At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future employer sponsorship.
This listing is sourced directly from Vanta's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.