[Hiring] Senior Director of Design @Vanta

Role Description

As the Senior Director of Design, Governance & Compliance at Vanta, you'll lead design for our largest product pillar. You'll set the direction for how compliance work moves from manual workflows to agents that do the work alongside our customers.

Governance & Compliance is the core of Vanta. It covers the frameworks, controls, policies, audits, and org structures that thousands of companies use to run their security programs. As we move upmarket, the team's job is to make that complexity feel simple for every customer, at every size.

What you’ll do as a Senior Director of Design at Vanta:

• Lead the agentic direction for Governance & Compliance.
• Own design quality across the pillar.
• Design for platform and enterprise complexity.
• Bring AI into how the team works.
• Lead and grow leaders.
• Partner as a peer with product and engineering.

Qualifications

• You've shipped agentic or AI-forward products and have a point of view on how design changes when outputs are non-deterministic.
• You use AI hands-on in your own process, from prototyping to building in a harness or in code, and you bring your team along.
• You have deep enterprise B2B SaaS experience.
• You think in systems, designing object models and patterns that hold up across many surfaces.
• You're comfortable going deep with engineers in a technical, domain-heavy space like GRC.
• You've led teams of 12 or more, including design directors, design managers, and staff ICs.
• You have a portfolio showing how you've simplified complex products and shipped AI-forward experiences (required for interview).

Requirements

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future employer sponsorship.
• Responsible for protecting Vanta and customer data in how your team operates and delivers results.
• Use AI in day-to-day work to amplify your skills and strengthen your outcomes.

Benefits

• Industry-competitive salary and equity.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans.
• 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents.
• Health & wellness stipend.
• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend.
• Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office.
• Family planning benefits.
• Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting.
• Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time.
• 11 company-paid holidays.
• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
• Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney.