At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.
Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.
The F5 AI Security team is seeking a UX Designer for our AI Red Team and AI Guardrails products. You will be embedded in a cross-functional team working with product management, engineering, data science, and QA to ensure a coherent, consistent, and usable experience across our product suite and that users can accomplish tasks quickly and confidently. As a systems thinker with expertise in technical enterprise applications, you will align design execution with product strategy, user expectations, and business objectives. We’re looking for a designer who deeply understands their craft and has a high bar for quality, likes to work fast, enjoys being autonomous and proactive, and can find a path forward in undefined problem spaces.
Key Responsibilities
End-to-end design: Design large-scale features, complex workflows, and data visualizations for the AI security suite.
Enterprise UX: Be the team’s subject matter expert on enterprise UX, understanding how to design for edge cases, for integration with other workflows and systems, for decision support and information scent, and the tradeoff between power and ease of use.
Cross-functional collaboration: Partner with PMs, developers, data science, and stakeholders to define requirements, lead feature kickoffs, and conduct peer reviews/workshops.
User validation: Conduct regular, lightweight usability testing and user feedback sessions to iterate on prototypes and improve existing features.
System maintenance: Contribute to and maintain the Figma design system to ensure visual and functional consistency.
Product stewardship: Proactively track UX debt, dogfood the product, manage the design backlog, and maintain a holistic view of cross-product workflows and terminology.
Strategic vision: Contribute to the long-term UX vision and roadmap.
Pitching in: Other related duties as needed, such as assisting with release notes and documentation, product demos, project management.
What you bring
Design leadership: Proven ability to lead the design process and stay level-headed during uncertainty—with the ability to change perspectives, reframe problems, and help teams stay focused when priorities shift.
Problem solving: Skilled at solving complex design problems and rapidly illustrating ideas for technical applications.
Execution: Strong interaction and visual design skills with a deep understanding of user-centered design principles as they apply to productivity tools.
Adaptability: Ability to work independently, manage multiple project timelines, and manage trade-offs to achieve both speed and quality.
Communication: Strong communication skills, including the ability to be candid and respectful in difficult conversations, to write concisely and clear, and adjust communication style to the situation.
Collaboration: Ability to build effective and mutually respectful relationships with cross-functional teammates.
Autonomy: A working style that’s self-directed and proactive, rarely needing outside approval to do what’s necessary for good UX.
Qualifications
6+ years of UX experience in an enterprise or startup setting.
Enterprise UX design experience for SaaS and B2B products.
Expert-level knowledge of Figma and facility using common ticketing products and whiteboarding tools.
Experience working in cross-functional, dual-track agile product team.
Deep understanding of object-oriented design, interaction design, and visual design principles.
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