SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) power advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cybersecurity, and other sectors.
We are a global team that is tech-focused and includes experts in AI, chemistry, cybersecurity, physics, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and other specialties. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors and supported by a braintrust of industry leaders.
At SandboxAQ, we’ve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and impact. By investing deeply in our people, we’re building a thriving, global workforce poised to tackle the world's epic challenges. Join us to advance your career in pursuit of an inspiring mission, in a community of like-minded people who value entrepreneurialism, ownership, and transformative impact.
About the Role
SandboxAQ’s Cybersecurity division is looking to hire a Senior Staff Product Designer to help define and build out our cryptography management product platform, AQtive Guard. In this role, you will partner with product and engineering to design workflows that allow CISOs (Chief Information Security Officers) and their teams to monitor, diagnose, and triage threats and risks for both a pre- and post quantum cryptography world. You will bring customer requirements to life through wireframes, mockups, and prototypes, which will be refined through workshops, user interviews and other stakeholder interactions. Collaborating closely with our product and engineering team, you will ensure that the features you design are effectively implemented, and achieve and raise the bar of design within the organization. Your core responsibilities will include defining the user experience, conducting research to validate user interactions, and crafting engaging and effective product experiences.
What You’ll Do
- Own the craft of design of the user experience of SandboxAQ’s cryptography management platform by creating wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups that effectively communicate design concepts and user interactions.
- Contribute to, influence, and drive the vision of AQtive Guard with the Product team to help guide and inspire the organization.
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and developers to gather and understand design requirements, identify risks and opportunities and solve them collectively to ensure seamless design implementation.
- Thrive in ambiguity with a bias for action, breaking down long, complex projects into executable units of work.
- Conduct workshops, qualitative interviews, usability testing, and other user research methods to inform and validate design decisions.
- Present designs to stakeholders, including users, engineers, and product managers, and iterate based on feedback.
- Drive the visual design of the user interface, by developing/evolving a style guide and/or design system, ensuring consistency across UI components and user interactions, and providing detailed specifications to front-end developers.
- Distil complex and dense information into clarifying data visualizations and views for the various lenses of user archetypes.
- Analyze product analytics to improve user interactions with the application.
- Deliver regular customer facing product demos for presales activities demonstrating the product’s differentiated capabilities.
- Interface with global system integrators (GSIs) such as Accenture, EY, and Deloitte to build user interfaces relevant and supportive to Sandbox’s strategic partnership efforts.
- Maintain dotted-line, cross-departmental connection to and collaboration with the broader design functions in other SandboxAQ Business Units
Who You Are
- Minimum 7-10 years of experience in Product Design, UX/UI, User Research.
- Bachelor’s Degree in User Experience, Visual Design, Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or another relevant field.
- A portfolio demonstrating your passion for and high design craft for clear, intuitive, and user-centered designs. Work examples should demonstrate:
- Product design skills (visual and interaction)
- Design thinking from problem to ideation to solution
- Ability to work in a cross-functional team
- How your work guided and impacted the business.
- Experience conducting user research utilizing various methods, including but not limited to usability studies, contextual inquiry, and surveys.
- Skilled in problem-solving, analyzing research data, identifying end-user pain points, and translating user requirements into design solutions.
- Proficient in Figma, with knowledge of other design tools (Sketch, Adobe Suite) to produce wireframes and high-fidelity mockups.
- Demonstrate strong verbal communication and presentation abilities, essential for effectively collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams and articulating design concepts to stakeholders
- Experience working and designing software in complex and/or deeply technical industries
Nice to Haves
- Understanding of the cybersecurity industry and comprehension of the product offerings of the largest cybersecurity vendors.
- Familiarity with AI and emerging machine learning workflows.
- Familiarity with cloud-based platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where we have zero tolerance for discrimination. We invest in our employees' personal and professional growth. Once you work with us, you can’t go back to normalcy because great breakthroughs come from great teams and we are the best in quantum technology.
We offer competitive salaries, stock options depending on employment type, generous learning opportunities, medical/dental/vision, family planning/fertility, PTO (summer and winter breaks), financial wellness resources, 401(k) plans, and more.
Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.
Accommodations: We provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in job application procedures for open roles. If you need such an accommodation, please let a member of our Recruiting team know.
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What We Do
SandboxAQ is harnessing the exponential power of AI + Quantum (AQ) technology. The inspiration for SandboxAQ and some of the team originated at Alphabet Inc., becoming an independent entity in 2022. Our mission is to develop commercial products for financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, public sector, and other computationally-intensive industries.
Our team’s unique approach enables cross-pollination across a diverse range of fields, from physics, computer science, neuroscience, mathematics, cryptography, natural sciences, and more!
Our success comes from coalescing diverse talent to create an environment where experimental thinking and collaboration yield breakthrough physics + AI solutions. Join a culture where thought leadership, diverse talent, employee engagement, and technological impact will create the next tech uproar.
We are deeply committed to education as a means to advance quantum solutions and computing initiatives. We invest in future talent through internship programs, research papers, developer tools, textbooks, educational talks/events, and partnerships with universities/talent hubs to attract multi-disciplinary talent. Our hope is to inspire people from all walks of life to be prepared for the quantum era and encourage a path in STEM
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