Senior UX Designer, strongDM
$200-230k
+ Equity Salary Packages
Manages auditable database access
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Manages auditable database access
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-230k
+ Equity Salary Packages
101-200 employees
Company mission
To simplify infrastructure access by helping companies manage and audit access to their databases, servers, clusters, and web applications.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience designing for SaaS, infrastructure, or enterprise software products—ideally in security or developer-focused environments
- Deep expertise in UX, interaction design, and systems thinking
- Proficiency in Figma with a strong portfolio showcasing experience in design systems, complex flows, and component-based UI design
- Demonstrated ability to conduct and apply user research in technical domains
- Solid understanding of responsive design, accessibility, and frontend collaboration; familiarity with React, HTML, and CSS is a plus
- Strong communication and storytelling skills—able to advocate for users and design with clarity and confidence
- Independent and self-driven, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and deliver high-impact work in a fast-paced environment
- Bonus: experience mentoring, hiring, and helping shape team process and culture
What the job involves
- We are seeking a versatile Senior UX Design Lead who excels in UX design, interaction design, and information architecture
- This role is pivotal in shaping the user experience of our enterprise cybersecurity products
- You will work closely with cross-functional teams to design intuitive interfaces that simplify complex cybersecurity concepts for our users
- UX & Interaction Design
- Drive end-to-end user experience design for complex features, from early exploration to polished execution
- Design thoughtful, user-centered solutions that simplify technical workflows and enhance usability for admin and ops-facing tools
- Create user flows, journey maps, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes that communicate design intent clearly
- Conduct and apply insights from user research and usability testing to continuously refine and improve experiences
- Design Systems & Visual Craft
- Contribute to the evolution of the design system—defining reusable components, maintaining documentation, and ensuring consistency across the platform
- Elevate the visual quality of the product through strong attention to detail and scalable design patterns
- Partner with engineering to ensure designs are implemented with accuracy and polish, maintaining a high-quality user interface
- Information Architecture
- Structure complex information and functionality into intuitive and accessible experiences
- Develop clear navigation, taxonomies, and hierarchies that support discoverability and ease of use in security and infrastructure-focused tools
- Collaboration & Influence
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and domain experts to shape product strategy and deliver cohesive, user-centric solutions
- Share design decisions and rationale clearly with stakeholders; contribute to discussions that guide product direction
- Support a healthy design culture by participating in critiques, sharing best practices, and offering feedback to peers
Our take
With cyber threats becoming increasingly common over the last decade, securing access permissions within data infrastructures is essential to enterprise survival. However, managing this task can be expensive and complicated, leading some small businesses to combine various budget open-source data services which results in insecure and convoluted infrastructures.
strongDM provides a tool for managing permissions and access within data infrastructures, achieved by ensuring information is siloed to prevent one person from accessing all parts of the infrastructure. In addition to providing these modular security features, the company also makes it easier for technical staff to access the information that they need based on one-click identity checks.
Whilst plenty of data infrastructure tools already exist with the purpose of securing permission, strongDM have made the smart move of integrating their siloed approach to auditable permissions whilst making access easier for those with permission. The company claims that its service guarantees frictionless and auditable data infrastructure by also automating access logging and data capturing across entire IT stacks. Its 2024 funding round will be used to expand its operations into the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) and Asia-Pacific (APAC) regions. It's also setting up an engineering center of excellence in Poland.
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Insights
-28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2024
$34m
SERIES C
Sep 2021
$54m
SERIES B
Total funding: $110.1m
Company benefits
- 401k
- 3 months parental leave
- Equity
- HSA, FSA, short/long-term disability
- 3 weeks PTO + standard holidays
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Downtown, Burlingame, CA
Leadership
Justin McCarthy
(CTO)They worked extensively as a Software Engineer before joining CafePress.com as Engineering Manager. They were VP of Engineering at Rafter and CTO at Preact.
Schuyler Brown
(CCO)They received an MBA from Columbia before working as Assistant to the President of Miramax. They were VP of Marketing at Nomi, and a Columnist at Inc. Magazine.
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