Senior Director of Design

The role

You will lead design for the Governance & Compliance product pillar. You will manage a team of senior, staff, and principal designers and senior managers. Your work involves setting agentic direction and driving design quality for enterprise complexity.

What you will do

• Lead the agentic direction for Governance & Compliance
• Own design quality across the pillar
• Design for platform and enterprise complexity
• Bring AI into how the team works
• Lead and grow leaders
• Partner as a peer with product and engineering

Required qualifications

• Shipped agentic or AI-forward products
• Use AI hands-on in your own process
• Deep enterprise B2B SaaS experience
• Think in systems
• Comfortable going deep with engineers in a technical, domain-heavy space
• Led teams of 12 or more, including design directors, design managers, and staff ICs
• Portfolio showing how you've simplified complex products and shipped AI-forward experiences
• Authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future employer sponsorship
• Responsible for protecting Vanta and customer data

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

Before you apply

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future employer sponsorship
• Portfolio is required for interview

About the company

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