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VantaStaff Product Designer, Activation
Vanta is hiring a Staff Product Designer to join the Activation team within its Self-Serve group. Founded in 2018 in response to growing data security concerns,…
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Staff Product Designer, Activation at Vanta is a full-time role. Work arrangement: Remote. Location: Applicants in United States only. No salary is shown in this listing. It was posted on Oct 29, 2026. This listing is paused and not taking applications at the moment.
Job Description
Vanta is hiring a Staff Product Designer to join the Activation team within its Self-Serve group. Founded in 2018 in response to growing data security concerns, Vanta provides a trust management platform that helps businesses automate compliance standards like SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 to continuously monitor and verify security.
In this role, the designer will shape the end-to-end experience that helps startups achieve audit readiness rapidly through AI-driven guidance. The position involves setting the strategic vision from first login to activation, partnering with product management and engineering to establish the roadmap, and leading major multi-team initiatives over multiple quarters. The selected candidate will define agent-first interactions, build scalable AI patterns, run experiments to drive key growth metrics, and elevate design quality across the organization while mentoring peers.
The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience designing complex B2B SaaS solutions, a track record of improving activation and onboarding outcomes, and familiarity with automation or AI-powered products. Strong written strategy skills, user research capabilities, and fluency in product analytics are essential for success in this role.
Responsibilities
- Develop the comprehensive experience vision for customer activation and translate it into a deliverable multi-quarter roadmap
- Collaborate with product management and engineering partners to guide product direction using customer data and evidence
- Design agent-first interactions and build reusable AI patterns for guided setup flows
- Define success metrics for activation, collaborate with data teams on instrumentation, and execute growth experiments
- Conduct customer discovery sessions and present findings to leadership through clear narratives
- Author product briefs, point-of-view documents, and strategy plans to align cross-functional partners
- Drive large-scale initiatives from launch to kickoff by organizing recurring reviews and stakeholder sessions
- Elevate visual, interaction, and content design standards across the Self-Serve group through mentorship and critique
Requirements
- At least eight years of professional experience designing and shipping complex B2B SaaS products across multiple teams and quarters
- Demonstrated history of positively impacting business metrics such as activation, time-to-value, onboarding completion, and retention
- Practical experience shipping automation-heavy or AI-powered products with a clear viewpoint on human-agent collaboration
- Strong written communication skills including authored product briefs, strategy documents, or roadmaps
- Proven capability to lead cross-functional initiatives and manage stakeholder alignment through recurring reviews
- Familiarity with product experimentation, defining metrics, and adjusting strategies based on empirical test results
- Proficiency in interaction, visual, and content design applied to dense user interfaces
- Ability to utilize AI tools in daily workflows to enhance productivity and outcomes
Qualifications
- Prior background working with product-led growth, guided setup, or onboarding experiences tailored for small teams or founders
- Experience designing conversational interfaces, agentic workflows, or human-in-the-loop review systems
- Ability to prototype using code or artificial intelligence tools to test concepts rapidly
- Previous familiarity with GRC, compliance, or security domains
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Benefits
- Industry-competitive salary and equity
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance with 100% of employee-only premiums covered for most medical plans
- Sixteen weeks of paid parental leave available to all new parents
- Stipends for remote workspace, internet, and mobile phone expenses
- Health and wellness stipend
- Commuter benefits for team members based out of the New York City and San Francisco offices
- Family planning benefits
- Matching 401(k) retirement plan with immediate vesting
- Flexible paid time off policy combined with eighty hours of sick leave
- Eleven company-paid holidays
- Virtual team building sessions, lunch and learns, and company-wide events
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