Senior Systems Designer, EPD

AI Chopping Block; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote workspace stipend

Internet & cellphone stipend

Commuter benefits

Equity

Job summary

Vanta is seeking a Senior Systems Designer to own the operating system for EPD, building agents, automation, and workflows in Jira across engineering, product, and design. You will drive adoption and address root-cause delivery issues with AI-enabled solutions.

You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams, push for practical implementations, and mentor teammates as they grow into more technical work. This role emphasizes ownership, rapid action, and responsible AI usage.

Qualifications

• You build and ship, with AI as part of how you work.
• You move toward a solution now; you don’t wait for a green light to start.
• You learn what’s new before anyone tells you to—especially in AI tooling.
• No CS degree required, no formal engineering tenure required. Real, recent, shipped work is what clears the bar.
• Open to using AI to amplify your skills and strengthen your work - demonstrating curiosity, willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly.

Responsibilities

• Design and own workflow and hierarchy across engineering, product, and design in Jira
• Make sure Jira reflects real practice, and real practice reflects what needs to show up in Jira — in both directions
• Build the agents and automation that run the system yourself, with AI as part of how you work
• Drive adoption: engage teams whose practice doesn’t match the substrate today and effect change
• Understand delivery breakdowns at the mechanism level and build fixes that address root causes
• Build alongside teammates growing into more technical work — raise their ceiling, not just your own output

Skills

Jira workflows

Automation & agents

AI tooling

Change management

System delivery analysis

Team coaching

Job description

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.

You will build the operating system for EPD — the systems, agents, and practices that make engineering, product, and design unreasonably effective at delivery, with Jira as the substrate.

The EPD Systems team is building the infrastructure Vanta's engineering, product, and design organization depends on to understand itself and operate well. We're constructing three interlocking layers: sources of truth at the foundation, a shared interpretive layer that reasons across all of them, and the operating system that makes the work itself legible. This role owns the operating system.

This is not a traditional PMO or status-reporting role. You build — agents, automation, workflow design, and the practices that make teams want to use the system rather than route around it.

What you’ll do as a Senior Systems Designer at Vanta:

• Design and own workflow and hierarchy across engineering, product, and design in Jira
• Make sure Jira reflects real practice, and real practice reflects what needs to show up in Jira — in both directions
• Build the agents and automation that run the system yourself, with AI as part of how you work
• Drive adoption: go to the teams whose practice doesn't match the substrate today and change that — through conversation, well-built artifacts, or clear instruction that works without you in the room
• Understand delivery breakdowns at the mechanism level and build fixes that address the root cause, not the symptom
• Build alongside teammates who are growing into more technical work — raise their ceiling, not just your own output

How to be successful in this role:

• You build and ship, recently, with AI as part of how you work. "I’d ask an engineer to build that" is not a valid answer here
• You find the mechanism that's actually failing before you reach for a tool. Your default is to remove steps, not add them
• You move toward a solution now. You don't wait for a green light to start, and you can name a real decision you made and acted on without checking first
• You learn what's new before anyone tells you to — especially in AI tooling — and you share what you find with others
• You get things adopted without authority: through a conversation, a well-built artifact, or clear instruction that carries your message beyond you being in the room
• You're accountable for the outcome, not just the artifact. The real work often happens after launch — adoption, fixing wrong assumptions, cleanup after handoff — and you do that work yourself
• We use AI to augment our own capabilities and invest deeply in helping every Vantan enhance their work through AI
• No CS degree required, no formal engineering tenure required. Real, recent, shipped work is what clears the bar
• Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact.

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.