Senior Product Designer
Hybrid (Santa Clara, CA) | Remote (United States) | Full-time
About StairwellStairwell is building the future of threat detection to combat the rising tide of AI-generated threats. Our platform helps security teams find threats that others miss by transforming how organizations collect, analyze, and act on file-based intelligence. We're a small, high-impact team solving hard problems at the intersection of cybersecurity and large-scale data systems.
The RoleYou’ll lead projects end-to-end, collaborating closely with product, engineering, and customers. We expect a broad range of design skills, and exceptional taste. You’ll join a team at the forefront of cybersecurity and AI, unlocking security teams to triage and investigate threats more rapidly and comprehensively than they ever have before.
What We’re Looking ForProven success in high-performing, fast-moving startup environments
Strong portfolio of product work users love, built with high-velocity teams
Great at turning complex user flows into intuitive experiences
Strong prototyping skills with a focus on clear visual communication
Comfortable with design systems and technical implementation
Excellent grasp of visual design, UI patterns, and interaction principles
Quick to ship, learn, and adapt fast
You are an AI native, leveraging AI tools to augment yourself and your workflows
Bonus: You ship to production, perhaps with a little help from AI
Bonus: Experience designing SOC workflows e.g., SecOps, threat detection and response, and/or threat intelligence products
Bonus: Experience designing AI products
Craft detailed user flows and high-fidelity mockups for new features
Own design projects from conception to delivery, collaborating with engineering or ideally implementing yourself with AI
Be scrappy and hands on with any design assets needed
Establish new scalable design processes that uphold quality standards
Champion quick wins and impactful improvements
Contribute to improving the design quality of Stairwell’s customer-facing AI
Help set the bar for design quality and the culture for how design works at Stairwell
You want to work on an advanced security platform purpose-built to fight the onslaught of AI-generated threats that other solutions simply aren’t adequate to handle
Hard technical problems with real security impact
Small team, huge impact, high autonomy, low process overhead
Opportunity to collaborate with world-class experts in cybersecurity
Work remotely in the USA, or use our co-working space in Santa Clara to collaborate with local teammates in-person
Skills Required
- Proven success in high-performing, fast-moving startup environments
- Strong portfolio of product work built with high-velocity teams
- Ability to turn complex user flows into intuitive experiences
- Strong prototyping skills with clear visual communication
- Comfortable with design systems and technical implementation
- Excellent grasp of visual design, UI patterns, and interaction principles
- Quick to ship, learn, and adapt
- AI native, leveraging AI tools to augment workflows
- Able to ship to production (bonus)
- Experience designing SOC workflows (SecOps, threat detection/response, threat intelligence)
- Experience designing AI products
What We Do
Stairwell helps organizations take back the cybersecurity high ground with solutions that attackers can't evade. Its flagship product, the Inception platform, empowers security teams to outsmart any attacker. Stairwell is comprised of security industry leaders and engineers from Google and is backed by Sequoia Capital, Accel, and Gradient Ventures.
