Staff Product Designer, Design Systems

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. Vanta's Design Systems team is the foundational layer that powers visual consistency, design quality, and engineering velocity across all of Vanta's product surfaces. The Design Systems team builds and maintains Vanta's shared component library, design tokens, interaction patterns, and documentation — enabling product designers and engineers to ship high-quality, cohesive experiences at scale. As Vanta grows across GRC, Trust, Design Systems, and new product areas, the Design Systems team plays a critical role in maintaining quality, reducing design and engineering debt, and accelerating the entire product organization.

Responsibilities

• Building and evolving a robust, scalable component library used across every product team

• Establishing and maintaining design tokens, typography, spacing, color systems, and interaction patterns

• Creating and enforcing documentation standards, contribution models, and design governance frameworks

• Partnering with front-end engineering to ensure design-to-code fidelity and maintain a shared component vocabulary

• Driving design system adoption across product teams through education, tooling, and proactive partnership

• Evolving the design system to support accessibility and platform scalability across Vanta's growing product suite

• Deep expertise building and maintaining scalable design systems for complex B2B SaaS products, including component architecture, design tokens, and pattern libraries

• Strong visual design foundation with mastery of typography, color theory, spacing, interaction design, and accessibility principles

• Proven ability to govern and evolve a design system at scale, including defining contribution models, usage guidelines, and quality standards across a multi-team design organization

• Working AI-natively: uses AI tools throughout the design process, and has shipped designs for non-deterministic, AI-powered experiences (chat, agentic modalities, etc).

How to be successful in this role: • 7+ years of experience as a Product Designer (preferably within Design Systems), with some experience in B2B SaaS or other complex domains

• Experience collaborating closely with front-end engineers to ensure design-to-code fidelity and maintain a shared vocabulary between design and implementation

• Expert-level proficiency in Figma — including variants, auto-layout, and design tokens — with experience publishing and managing shared libraries at scale across a product organization

• Lead the strategy, evolution, and execution of Vanta's design system, ensuring it scales with the needs of a rapidly growing product organization

• Partner with product designers and engineers across all product teams to define, document, and ship new components, patterns, and guidelines

• Establish governance models, contribution frameworks, and quality standards that enable every designer at Vanta to build consistently

• Advocate for accessibility and inclusive design as a foundational requirement throughout all components, patterns, and design documentation

What you can expect as a Vanta’n: • Industry-competitive salary and equity

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 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, plus 80 hours of Sick Time

• 11 company-paid holidays

• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!

• Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors and may vary based on candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials. #LI-remote At Vanta, we are committed to hiring diverse talent of different backgrounds and as such, it is important to us to provide an inclusive work environment for all. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender identity, age, religion, sexual orientation, veteran or disability status, or any other protected class. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage and welcome people of all backgrounds to apply. About Vanta We started in 2018, in the wake of several high-profile data breaches. Online security was only becoming more important, but we knew firsthand how hard it could be for fast-growing companies to invest the time and manpower it takes to build a solid security foundation. Vanta was inspired by a vision to restore trust in internet businesses by enabling companies to improve and prove their security. From our early days automating security monitoring for compliance standards like SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 to creating the world's leading Trust Management Platform, our vision remains unchanged. Now more than ever, making security continuous—not just a point-in-time check— is essential. Thousands of companies rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust— all in a way that's real-time and transparent. Referral Instructions If you are being referred for the role, please contact that person to apply on your behalf.