Lead Product Designer

About this role

About Nightfall: Nightfall is the AI-native, unified data loss prevention and insider risk management platform that protects sensitive data across SaaS apps, GenAI tools, email, endpoint devices, and more. Hundreds of customers, spanning AI innovators to top 10 banks, trust Nightfall to detect and stop data exfiltration at scale. Nightfall enables organizations to innovate freely without the risks of losing intellectual property or exposing customer data. Our agentic platform helps security teams regain their time by putting data loss prevention on autopilot. With automatic remediation, security violations can be resolved automatically before they become incidents, and end-users can be automatically trained and coached in the moment to self-heal violations that they introduce. Nightfall is backed by leading VC firms including Bain Capital Ventures (Enrique Salem - former CEO of Symantec), Venrock (early investors in Cloudflare), WestBridge Capital, Pear VC (early investors in Dropbox and Doordash), and a cadre of cybersecurity leaders including Frederic Kerrest (founder of Okta), Maynard Webb (former COO of eBay), Ryan Carlson (President of Chainguard), Kevin Mandia (founder of Mandiant), and many others. About the role: We're seeking a highly skilled UX designer to lead UX design and help us drive towards making Nightfall AI a benchmark for UX designers. You'll lead the design of intuitive, engaging, and user-friendly experiences across our products and platforms. Responsibilities - Create high-quality deliverables throughout the design process including wireframes, user flows, prototypes and pixel-perfect visual design - Collaborate with engineering, product management, and other cross-functional teams from concept to implementation of features - Conduct user research, analyze user feedback, and translate insights into actionable design recommendations. Build strong relationships with customers to ensure designs address user needs. - Develop and maintain design system, guidelines, and best practices. Partner with engineering to ensure precise implementation of design specifications. - Communicate design decisions and solutions to stakeholders, including executives, product managers, and engineers. Qualifications - 6 + years of hands-on UX design experience for software products - Strong creative, and problem-solving skills with meticulous attention to detail and commitment to high quality execution. - Strong proficiency in leveraging AI tools throughout the design process - from research and ideation to prototyping and production of high-fidelity UX design. - Self-motivated approach to finding optimal solutions to complex problems. Great listening skills with emphasis on understanding diverse perspectives. - The portfolio showcases your interaction design expertise, visual design skills, and creative problem-solving ability. - Experience with design tools, such as Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, or InVision. - Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field. This role is not for: - Those uncomfortable with ambiguity, advocating for solutions, or driving the end-to-end design process forward. - Designers who prefer to complete their work and hand it off without involvement in implementation. Environment Nightfall AI takes pride in being an equal-opportunity employer. We value a diverse and global talent pool and the collaboration that results from having a diverse and inclusive team. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. Our hiring decisions are based exclusively on merit, qualifications, and business needs. Compensation Employee compensation will be determined based on interview performance, level of experience, specialization of skills, and market rate. During the offer discussion, your recruiter will review the finalized base salary, bonus (for applicable roles), benefits & perks, and stock options as they’ll be reflected in the offer letter.