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.

What you’ll do as a Staff Product Designer at Vanta:

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