Staff UX Designer

present of AI; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Endor Labs is seeking a senior design leader to set the direction for a security platform that serves developers and security leaders. The role demands ownership of complex, cross-functional problems across web apps, developer tools, and conversational interfaces.

You will influence roadmaps with product, engineering, and executives, run customer research, and mentor other designers while staying hands-on in design and prototyping.

Qualifications

• Senior or staff level ownership on complex products.
• Portfolio showing strategy and shipped outcomes, not just polished screens.
• Ability to still design and prototype hands-on.

Responsibilities

• Set design direction for a security platform used by developers and security leaders.
• Lead cross-team problems across web apps, developer tools and conversational interfaces.
• Influence roadmaps with product, engineering and executives.
• Run customer research to inform design decisions.
• Mentor other designers.

Skills

Design strategy

Roadmap influence

Mentoring

Hands-on prototyping

Customer research

Cross-team leadership

Tools

Design systems

Job description

This role sets the design direction for a security platform used by both developers and security leaders, and it asks for someone who can lead the most tangled, cross team problems across web apps, developer tools and conversational interfaces. A strong candidate brings years of senior or staff level ownership on complex products, a portfolio showing strategy and shipped results rather than only polished screens, and the ability to still design and prototype hands on. It also calls for influencing roadmaps with product, engineering and executives, running customer research, and mentoring other designers.

How it fits the AI era

The product is built around AI agents writing code and around people working through agents instead of dashboards, so the design work centers on new interaction models and on making AI behavior explainable, evidence backed and under human control. Much of the craft stays human: framing ambiguous problems, deciding what trust looks like in a high stakes workflow, and aligning teams around a direction. AI tools are part of the expected toolkit for prototyping, but judgment about the experience remains the designer's job.

How it builds AI experience

A designer here would gain direct practice designing agentic and LLM driven experiences, including patterns for confidence, evidence and human oversight of automation. That experience can be built by prototyping agent workflows, studying how developers interact with coding agents, and learning how policy, audit and reporting needs shape enterprise security tools. Familiarity with security products or developer tooling helps but is listed as a nice to have.

Worth showing

• Design strategy portfolio
• Shipped outcomes evidence
• AI and agentic patterns
• Roadmap influence
• Design system scaling

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Per the company, Endor Labs provides an agentic application security platform that secures AI-generated code, open source dependencies, and containers.