Staff Visual Product Designer - Design Systems & UI Craft

Socket.dev; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Remote stipend

Parental leave

Commuter benefits

401(k)

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Vanta is seeking a Staff Visual Product Designer focused on Design Systems to shape the visual language and scalable patterns across our product ecosystems. You will partner with design, engineering, and brand teams to evolve tokens, states, theming, and accessibility while ensuring high fidelity and performance.

You’ll mentor designers, drive system-level decisions, and contribute to a culture that prioritizes customer obsession, inclusive design, and practical alignment across complex

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience designing digital products, with significant experience in visual product design for complex B2B SaaS or enterprise software.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual craft, thoughtful systems thinking, and the ability to improve product experiences at both component and end-to-end workflow level.
• Experience creating, evolving, and scaling product design systems used by multiple teams across a growing organization.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve Vanta’s visual design language across product surfaces, creating a cohesive, distinctive, and scalable customer experience.
• Set a high bar for visual craft across typography, color, layout, iconography, illustration, motion, data visualization, and interaction details.
• Partner with Design Systems, Product, Engineering, Research, Content Design, and Brand teams to translate customer and business needs into system-level solutions.
• Own and evolve foundational design system elements, including design tokens, component visual states, responsive behavior, theming, density, and platform-specific adaptations.
• Create reusable patterns and guidance that help product teams solve common problems consistently while preserving flexibility for different customer workflows.

Skills

Visual design

Design systems

Figma

Typography

Data visualization

Interaction design

Collaboration

Mentoring

Inclusive design

Accessibility

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Design or related field

Tools

Design tokens

Front-end basics

Component architecture

Job description

Vanta is seeking a Staff Visual Product Designer focused on Design Systems to shape the visual language and scalable patterns across our product ecosystems. You will partner with design, engineering, and brand teams to evolve tokens, states, theming, and accessibility while ensuring high fidelity and performance.

You’ll mentor designers, drive system-level decisions, and contribute to a culture that prioritizes customer obsession, inclusive design, and practical alignment across complex