Founding Product Designer, Tracebit
£80-120k
+ Equity
More information about location
5 days a week in office
Accel-backed cloud threat detection and deception platform
Posted today
Accel-backed cloud threat detection and deception platform
1-20 employees
Posted today
£80-120k
+ Equity
More information about location
5 days a week in office
1-20 employees
Company mission
To reduce the time it takes to detect and contain security incidents from months to minutes.
Role
Who you are
- You're a pragmatic product designer who ships. You understand the difference between perfection and progress. You can spot the 20% of design work that will deliver 80% of the value, ship it this week, then iterate based on real customer feedback. You're comfortable improving existing interfaces rather than always starting from a blank canvas
- You have a strong foundation in product design. 5+ years designing B2B SaaS products, ideally in technical domains like cybersecurity or developer tooling. You've worked on products with real users and real constraints, and you know how to balance user needs with business goals and technical feasibility
- You can work effectively with engineers. You understand enough about frontend development to have productive conversations about implementation. You know when a design requires significant engineering effort versus a quick CSS change. You can jump into the codebase to inspect existing components and understand what's feasible
- You're comfortable with technical products. You don't need to understand distributed systems architecture, but you should be able to grasp concepts like API tokens, webhooks, and cloud infrastructure. When engineers explain technical constraints, you see them as design parameters, not blockers
- You have excellent Figma skills. Components, auto-layout, prototyping, design systems - these are second nature to you. You can quickly mock up concepts for discussion and deliver detailed specs for implementation
- Bonus: You can code. If you're comfortable writing HTML and CSS , that's a significant advantage. Being able to implement simple design changes yourself or pair with engineers on complex interactions will accelerate our pace dramatically
What the job involves
- We've built a product that security teams at Docker, Snyk, and other leading companies actually want to use. Now we need someone to make it even better
- You'll be our first designer, working directly with the founders and engineering team to incrementally improve how enterprise security teams experience threat detection
- This isn't about redesigning everything from scratch - it's about identifying the right improvements, shipping them quickly, and making our platform more intuitive with every iteration
- Reporting to our Co-Founders (CEO and CTO), you'll work alongside our engineering team to continuously improve the Tracebit platform
- Ship product improvements weekly. Work with engineering to identify and implement high-impact design changes. You'll participate in customer calls, spot friction points, design solutions, and see your work in production within days
- Make complex security workflows intuitive. Help security teams deploy canaries in minutes, investigate alerts efficiently, and understand attack patterns at a glance. Every improvement should reduce cognitive load and increase confidence
- Evolve our design system incrementally. We have an existing product with established patterns. Our strategy is to improve and systematize these patterns over time, not rebuild everything. Document decisions, create reusable components, and raise the quality bar with each iteration
- Balance customer needs with product vision. Listen deeply to feedback from Docker, Riot Games, and our other customers. Synthesize their requests into improvements that benefit all users, not just one
- Work across product and brand. Beyond the core platform, you'll also improve our marketing site, create diagrams for documentation, and ensure our brand reflects the quality of our product
- Collaborate with the entire team. Partner with sales to understand what prospects need to see. Work with customer success to learn where users struggle. Join engineering standups and contribute to technical discussions about implementation
- This role is hands-on. You'll be designing, prototyping, specifying, and in some cases implementing. As we grow, there will be opportunities to build and lead a design function, but for now, you'll be in the weeds with the rest of us
- We think 9am-6pm will bring a great cadence to work. As a Founding Product Designer there will definitely be times you need to pick up work outside of these hours, we're keen to limit this where we can but also offer flexibility in return
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Tracebit is a cybersecurity company specialising in intrusion detection solutions using deception techniques, such as canaries and honeypots. While effective, these methods are often costly and complex, limiting their broader use. Tracebit addresses these challenges by leveraging modern cloud practices for quick and efficient scaling.
By connecting securely to cloud environments and recommending realistic canaries based on unique profiles, Tracebit allows users rapid deployment through infrastructure-as-a-code. As environments evolve, Tracebit continuously adapts its canary configuration to keep potential intruders guessing, ensuring ongoing protection.
Recent funding will allow the company to further its developments and expand its team, enabling the company to broaden its offerings. With this strong backing and innovative approach, Tracebit is ready to solidify its position in the cybersecurity space.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2024
$5m
SEED
Total funding: $5m
Company benefits
- Generous equity included
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
Leadership
Andy Smith
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously, Head of Engineering at Tessian, where he grew the Engineering team from 7 to over 100 people, through Series A, B, C and $130m investment (Accel, Balderton, Sequoia).
Sam Cox
(Co-Founder & CTO)Former lead Architect at Tessian, processing millions of sensitive email transactions weekly. Cambridge Maths graduate.
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