VP of Product Design

VP of Product Design

UpGuard's mission is to protect the world's data. We obsessively seek out elegant, robust ways to enable our customers to find, acknowledge, and remediate cyber risk. With UpGuard, organizations leverage our security expertise and software to automate what was once laborious, spreadsheet-driven processeswhether it's monitoring the attack surface of hundreds of vendors or assessing the security of their own infrastructure. UpGuard is used by some of the world's largest, fastest-growing, and most innovative companies.

Our Product team at UpGuard comprises of our Product Management, Product Support, Engineering, Design, Data Leaks Detection, and Third Party Risk Management Services. Our Product team's vision is to become the leader in the Cyber VRM category by providing a best-in-class SaaS platform for organizations to manage their third-party risk and external attack surface. Our purpose as a Product team is simply to build a product that enables this. We aim to build a product that users love and come to rely on, and one that regularly and consistently improves.

We're entering a new phase of growth, expanding our product suite and user base and product design is a key strategic differentiator in this evolution. As VP of Product Design, you'll sit at the heart of this transformation, reporting to the Chief Product Officer and leading a growing team of designers and a UX writer. You'll scale our design system, drive the adoption of AI tools to improve efficiency, and help shape a unified, world class experience across every touchpoint in close partnership with Product, Engineering, and Brand.

Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, you'll lead a team of five Product Designers (with plans to grow) and a UX Writer. You'll be responsible for scaling our design system into a robust foundation that enables consistency and speed, while championing AI-assisted design tooling to reduce repetitive work and maximise time spent on solving user problems. You'll also partner closely with the VP of Product, VP of Engineering, and Brand & Marketing Design to ensure a unified, world class experience across all touchpoints.

Drive Design Vision & Strategy

• Craft and socialise a compelling design vision that aligns with UpGuard's product strategy and brand.
• Establish a design?system roadmap that scales across multiple products and future use cases.
• Define success metrics e.g. adoption of the design system, usability / NPS increases, reduction in design?to?dev cycle time and report progress to executives.

Build & Scale a Modern Design System

Lead & Empower the Design Team

Integrate AI Into the Design Workflow

Cross?Functional Leadership & Execution

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