Staff Product Designer

Snyk; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job description

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.

Joining Snyk means embracing our core values: One Team, Care Deeply, Customer Centric, and Forward Thinking. As a member of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to thrive in a dynamic environment where fostering collaboration, leading with empathy, driving business impact, and inspiring trust are at the heart of everything we do.

Your Opportunity

We’re looking for a Staff Product Designer to join our enterprise platform team, working on a range of features as well as helping shape design strategy for the future of Snyk. You will be working closely with design leaders, product and engineering colleagues to help drive the future of our platform.

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, content writers and researchers to create one Snyk experience
• Running workshops to understand and align x-functional teams through design
• 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 with practicality and influence
• Sharing your skills, coaching other designers, and helping to build our world class design team

What You’ll Need:

• Strong experience in UX research and design, applying a wide range of techniques to define and solve complex design problems
• Experience working in the developer tooling domain, or hands-on experience as a developer
• Solid user-centred design methodology and practice and strong critical thinking skills to understand user needs vs user wants
• Experience in designing complex enterprise applications collaboratively across multiple R&D teams
• Strong story-telling skills to interact with executive stakeholders, a range of customer scenarios and more

We’d be Lucky if You:

• Have exposure to working with complex engineering & product teams within a dev-tooling or cybersecurity environments
• Formal education in Human Factors, Human-Computer Interaction or similar
• Are hands-on, curious and love to explore new domains and technologies like Gen AI 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.

Benefits & Programs

Prioritize health, wellness, financial security, and life balance with programs tailored to your location and role.

• Flexible working hours, work-from home allowances, in-office perks, and time off for learning and self development
• Generous vacation and wellness time off, country-specific holidays, and 100% paid parental leave for all caregivers
• Health benefits, employee assistance plans, and annual wellness allowance
• Country-specific life insurance, disability benefits, and retirement/pension programs, plus mobile phone and education allowances