Every day, the world gets more digital thanks to tens of millions of developers building the future faster than ever. But with exponential growth comes exponential risk, as outnumbered security teams struggle to secure mountains of code. This is where Snyk (pronounced “sneak”) comes in. Snyk is a developer security platform that makes it easy for development teams to find, prioritize, and fix security vulnerabilities in code, dependencies, containers, and cloud infrastructure — and do it all right from the start. Snyk is on a mission to make the world a more secure place by empowering developers to develop fast and stay secure.
Our Opportunity
We’re looking for a Principal or Staff Product Designer to join our enterprise platform team, working on a range of features as well as leading the design strategy for the future of our app. You will be working closely with product and engineering colleagues to help drive the future of our product.
You’ll Spend Your Time:
- Conducting generative & evaluative research to identify pain points and user needs
- Working day to day in R&D teams, influencing product decisions through user research
- Collaborating with other designers to create one Snyk experience
- Running workshops to understand and get alignment on the teams design priorities
- Creating service or journey maps and design concepts to drive the Snyk vision forward
- Collaborating with the Design System team to craft hi-fidelity design artifacts
- Leading highly complex projects in developer tools and cloud security
- Sharing your skills, coaching other designers, and helping to build our world class design team
What You’ll Need:
- A very strong background in UX design, and experience in applying a wide range of techniques to define and solve complex design problems
- Solid user-centred design methodology and practice
- Strong critical thinking skills to understand user needs vs user wants
- Experience leading the design in programs that cut across many R&D teams
- Experience in designing complex enterprise applications
- Experience designing and facilitating workshops to gain alignment and drive towards outcomes, and collaborate with engineers to solve challenging problems in an innovative way
- The ability to articulate how you like to work – talking about a clear process for problem discovery through to ideation and testing
- Strong communication skills, especially with executive stakeholders as you help to effectively influence the future vision of the product
- Confidence when interacting and communicating with customers in a range of scenarios, such as workshops, presentations and interviews
We’d be Lucky if You:
- Have experience working in a similar domain to Snyk
- Have Exposure to working with complex engineering & product teams within a cloud environment
- Experience working in a fast paced Saas startup environment
- Are hands-on, curious and love to explore new domains and technologies and a critical thinker prepared to challenge the status quo
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We care deeply about the warm, inclusive environment we’ve created and we value diversity – we welcome applications from those typically underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this role but are not totally sure whether you’re the right person, do apply anyway!
About Snyk
Snyk is committed to creating an inclusive and engaging environment where our employees can thrive as we rally behind our common mission to make the digital world a safer place. From Snyk employee resource groups, to global benefits that help our employees prioritize their health, wellness, financial security, and a work/life blend, we aim to support our employees along their entire journeys here at Snyk.
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