UX Design Manager, Vectra AI

• Excellent problem-solving skills and a thorough grasp of user experience and interaction design
• Self-motivated and able to prioritize and manage workload to meet project deadlines
• BA/BS degree in Design (e.g. graphic, interaction, visual communications, product, industrial), HCI, CS, or a related field or equivalent practical experience
• 5 years of experience in UX design and leadership, including managing projects, designing and shipping web-based applications or services in either the enterprise or business markets
• Proficiency with the Figma design tool
• A strong portfolio featuring examples of your best design work
• Familiarity with technical constraints and limitations in designing responsive web products and services
• A history of design leadership with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build good working relationships with local and remote team members
• You are practiced using iterative processes beginning with requirements and ending with customer experiences that are simple and elegant
• You have a strong sense of when to conform and when to push boundaries
• You support every design decision you make—from the smallest text change to entire overhauls—with logical, thoughtful, and clear rationales

Desirable

• As a design manager, you will help lead our existing, highly capable multi-national design and user research team to refine and extend our platform capabilities and user experience
• You will work on constantly refining and improving our design process. And you will spearhead some of our most advanced design projects as an individual contributor
• You will be at the forefront of the cybersecurity industry, working to protect organizations from the bad guys, and will use your full range of skills from product design, interaction design, visual design, and design management to help us empower our users and create delightful user experiences
• Dive head first into the fascinating technical world of cybersecurity and refine conceptually complex workflows and information architectures
• Scoping projects, managing team bandwidth, and coaching less senior team members
• Commitment to user research, gathering feedback on design artefacts, and designing telemetry to inform our understanding of usage of our designs
• Partnering with a variety of stakeholders like PMs, UI Engineers, Platform Engineers, Sales Engineers, and others who are involved in the process from conception to launch to evaluation of usage
• Creating detailed mock-ups, interaction workflows, wireframes, Figma prototypes, service blueprints, and other artifacts to illustrate design intent and clearly communicate with internal stakeholders
• Open to feedback and know how to use it to your advantage