Senior UX Designer

Tanium; Emeryville (CA); Hybrid; USD 169,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Medical, dental, vision

Volunteer time off

Job summary

Tanium is seeking a Senior UX Designer on the Design System team to craft foundational styles, patterns, and UI elements across our platform. You will work with cross-functional teams to create intuitive, visually compelling interfaces that support AI-driven Tanium solutions.

You’ll lead design-system initiatives, prototype interfaces, and advocate for usability and accessibility while ensuring scalability across Tanium’s product suite.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of UI/UX design experience, specifically in a Design System capacity.
• Understanding of tokens and atomic design principles
• Experience designing in technical, B2B solutions
• Strong user-centered design principles and best practices
• Strong UI skills and familiarity with design systems in Figma
• Experience with user research methods, prototyping tools, and usability testing
• Excellent communication and collaboration in cross-functional teams
• Experience with data visualization and/or dashboard design
• Experience designing for AI and agentic AI technologies

Responsibilities

• Design repeatable, scalable patterns and components for the Design System.
• Prototype enterprise UI interfaces ensuring usability and accessibility.
• Conduct user research, analyze feedback, and iterate to optimize UX.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and designers to refine features.
• Develop interactive prototypes and conduct usability testing.
• Document design decisions and best practices for knowledge sharing.

Skills

UI/UX design

Design System

User research

Prototyping

Usability testing

Data visualization

Cross-functional teamwork

AI design

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Figma

Job description

The Basics

As a Senior UX Designer on the Design System team, you will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing the foundational styles, patterns, and UI elements for Tanium solutions across our entire platform. The projects you’ll be working on will require new ways of engaging with our solutions, to continue bringing AI strategies to Tanium product solutions. You will be charged with working with cross-functional teams to create intuitive, visually appealing, and highly functional interfaces that meet the needs of our customers.

The Basics

As a Senior UX Designer on the Design System team, you will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing the foundational styles, patterns, and UI elements for Tanium solutions across our entire platform. The projects you’ll be working on will require new ways of engaging with our solutions, to continue bringing AI strategies to Tanium product solutions. You will be charged with working with cross-functional teams to create intuitive, visually appealing, and highly functional interfaces that meet the needs of our customers.

This position follows the Company’s hybrid schedule which currently requires employees to work in the office at one of the following locations a minimum of three days per week: Addison, TX; Bellevue, WA; Durham, NC; Emeryville, CA; or Reston, VA.

What You’ll Do

• Design System Design: Design repeatable, scalable patterns and componentry to be leveraged by both design and engineering.
• User Interface Design: Design and prototype user interfaces for enterprise software applications, ensuring seamless navigation, usability, and accessibility.
• User Experience Enhancement: Conduct user research, analyze feedback, and iterate on designs to optimize user experience and satisfaction.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, software engineers, and UX/UI designers to understand requirements, refine features, and deliver high-quality solutions.
• Prototyping and Testing: Develop interactive prototypes to validate design concepts and usability and conduct usability testing to gather actionable insights for improvement.
• Documentation: Document design decisions and best practices to facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing within the team.

We’re looking for someone with

• Education
  • Bachelor's degree in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, computer science, or a related field or equivalent work experience.
• Experience
  • Proven experience (5+ years) in UI/UX design, specifically in a Design System capacity.
  • Understanding of systems design, tokens, and atomic design principles
  • Experience designing in technical, B2B solutions
  • Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and best practices.
  • Strong UI skills and understanding of design systems in Figma
  • Experience with user research methods, prototyping tools, and usability testing.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
  • Experience with data visualization and/or dashboard design.
  • Experience designing for AI and Agentic AI technologies.

About Tanium

Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. As Al accelerates both innovation and risk, Tanium Atlas, the company's autonomous operating system, puts the full depth of the Tanium Autonomous IT Platform behind every IT and security operator - human and agentic. Tanium provides the real-time intelligence, agentic decision-making, and autonomous execution operators needed to detect, decide, and remediate at machine speed across their endpoint estate.

The company is recognized as a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Management Tools, as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Client Endpoint Management Software for Windows Device Management 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment, and as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™. Endpoint Management Platforms, Q2 2026.

To learn how Tanium delivers Autonomous IT for unstoppable business, visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

On a mission. Together.

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.

As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.

Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.

What You’ll Get

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $169,000 to $259,000. This range is an estimate for what Tanium will pay a new hire. The actual annual base salary offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, location, education, skills, training, and experience.

In addition to an annual base salary, team members will receive equity awards and a generous benefits package consisting of medical, dental and vision plan, family planning benefits, health savings account, flexible spending account, transportation savings account, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, life, accident and disability coverage, business travel accident insurance, employee assistance programs, disability insurance, and other well-being benefits.

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