Principal UX Designer

The role

You will lead design execution end-to-end for a significant, high-impact product area. You will partner with product managers and engineers to define UX models, conduct research studies, and mentor other designers.

What you will do

• Lead design execution end-to-end for a significant, high-impact product area
• Apply knowledge of the tooling industry to align projects with customer workflows
• Partner with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders
• Define and own UX models and experience transitions
• Identify the need for new design system patterns and components
• Plan, execute, and independently analyze research studies
• Mentor other designers and provide actionable feedback during critiques
• Participate in hiring
• Identify opportunities and risks across the business

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in product design or UX
• Advanced degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Demonstrated ownership of one or more significant product areas end-to-end
• Deep fluency with an industry-standard design tool
• Experience independently planning, executing, and synthesizing formative and evaluative research
• A portfolio demonstrating complex, ambiguous projects from definition to execution
• Ability to build consensus among peers and stakeholders using qualitative and quantitative reasoning

Nice to have

• Experience designing enterprise, B2B, or highly technical products
• A track record of mentoring designers and improving quality outside your own focus area
• Comfort filling gaps in product requirements independently
• Contribution to a design system's roadmap, documentation, or evangelism
• Occasional contribution to patent portfolios, internal innovation, or the external design community
• Experience embedding AI into the design process and day-to-day design operations

Benefits

• 100% employee medical, dental and vision premiums coverage (US)
• 88% dependent medical, dental and vision premiums coverage (US)
• 401(k) match (US)
• Short and long-term disability (US)
• Life/AD&D insurance (US)
• $1,000/year education reimbursement (US)
• Flexible vacation policy (US)
• Comprehensive benefits package including pension and private medical (Outside US)
• Generous holiday allowance (Outside US)
• Life assurance (Outside US)
• Long-term disability (Outside US)
• Annual wellbeing stipend (Outside US)

About the company

Aviatrix is a cloud network security company trusted by more than 500 of the world's leading enterprises. The company provides a Cloud Native Security Fabric to govern workload communication across clouds, VPCs, Kubernetes clusters, and serverless functions.