Senior Product Designer, Agent Experience

The role

You will define how AI agents help security and compliance teams through the agent harness and customer-facing workflows. You will partner with cross-functional teams to turn ambiguous problems into scalable, trustworthy experiences.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end design for projects across the agent harness.
• Define how agents, skills, tools, and memory are composed and understood.
• Design experiences for delegating security and compliance work with visibility and control.
• Create patterns for reviewing, correcting, approving, and recovering from agent-generated work.
• Design conversational and agent interaction models across Vanta, Slack, and other surfaces.
• Establish product patterns for trustworthy agent behavior.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to evaluate agent solutions.
• Conduct customer discovery and usability testing.
• Translate customer insights and technical constraints into design direction.
• Collaborate with Design Systems and product designers to create reusable experiences.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of product design experience, with depth in B2B SaaS, complex workflows, or other sophisticated software products.
• Experience designing AI-powered products, automation, or systems where product behavior may be dynamic or uncertain.
• Ability to design agent experiences beyond chat, including systems involving agents, skills, tools, memory, and multi-step workflows.
• Experience designing products that require human judgment.
• Experience designing across surfaces that a product team may not fully control, such as Slack, terminal environments, or other third-party interfaces.
• Strong product thinking and discovery skills.
• High craft in interaction design, information architecture, UX writing, and visual design.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
• A thoughtful approach to responsible AI.
• A portfolio that demonstrates shipped work, complex workflows, meaningful tradeoffs, and learning from customers or users.
• Ability to move fluidly between systems-level thinking and detailed interaction design.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to influence cross-functional partners without formal authority.

Nice to have

• Uses AI in day-to-day work to amplify their skills and strengthen their outcomes

Benefits

• Industry-competitive salary and equity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 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
• 80 hours of Sick Time
• 11 company-paid holidays

About the company

Vanta helps businesses earn and prove trust by enabling companies to improve and prove their security. The company provides a Trust Management Platform to make security continuous and transparent.