Director, Product Design

About the Role

Censys maps the entire Internet so defenders can investigate threats and manage exposure across their own infrastructure and their suppliers. We're hiring a design leader to own product design across our portfolio of products spanning Security Investigation, Exposure Management, Platform and Internet Map. You'll lead a team of three product designers while staying hands-on, setting the strategy and the quality bar and designing critical workflows yourself. Our users are security practitioners, including threat hunters, security analysts, and exposure management teams, who work with dense, fast-moving Internet data, and good design is how they find what matters in it. You'll partner with Product, Engineering, Research, and go-to-market leaders to create a cohesive product experience and to define how AI fits into security workflows. This role reports to our CTO and has a direct voice in product strategy.

What you'll do:

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of three product designers through 1:1s, design critique, and clear career paths, building independent judgement and ownership, and recruit new designers as the team scales.
• Stay hands-on: design key end-to-end workflows yourself, from early concepts and interactive prototypes through implementation, working with engineers to deliver a high-quality experience.
• Set the design vision and strategy across the entire product portfolio, and bring a design point of view to roadmap decisions with Product and Engineering leadership.
• Connect data exploration,Investigations and exposure management user journeys into a consistent experience, with a focus on usability, discoverability and onboarding.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to design AI-assisted and agentic workflows for triage, investigations, threat hunting, and risk prioritization, making evidence and user controls clear.
• Evolve and scale the Censys design system so teams ship consistent, accessible UI faster, with clear ownership of design guidance and reusable components.
• Build research into the team's practice: observe real workflows, synthesize design partner feedback and usage data, and turn findings into prioritized product opportunities. Measure success through time to value and adoption.
• Present design work and strategy through clear narrative and working prototypes, and align executives and key stakeholders on product direction and user value.
• Evolve design operations, critique rituals, and cross-functional practices that keep quality high as the team grows and help teams resolve tradeoffs early. .
• Use AI and agentic design tools in daily work to explore ideas, synthesize research and build interactive prototypes that help Product and Engineering align on requirements and iterate quickly. Apply sound judgment to validate the outcomes.

Skills and experience you'll have:

Required

• Demonstrated experience leading and growing product design teams for enterprise SaaS products, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• Current, hands-on product design practice; you're comfortable owning complex workflows yourself while leading others.
• A portfolio that shows systems thinking, interaction design, and leadership of complex, enterprise-level products with clear examples of your personal contribution.
• Experience making complex data and workflows understandable and actionable in B2B tools for cybersecurity, networking, or infrastructure.
• Experience building and evolving design systems at scale, with strong interaction design, visual craft and accessibility practices.
• Experience designing AI-assisted workflows or features in a shipped product, and regular hands-on use of AI tools for research, synthesis, design exploration and interactive prototyping.
• Depth across product strategy, UX/UI, and research integration.
• Clear communication with executives and cross-functional partners, and a track record of influencing product and company direction.
• Experience bringing multiple products or product lines together into one platform experience.

Preferred

• Familiarity with security practitioner workflows such as triage and investigation, threat hunting, exposure management, or Internet infrastructure analysis.

Location

This position is located remotely with no expectation to work from a Censys office.

Compensation

For high cost of living areas in the US (San Francisco / Seattle / NYC), the expected salary range for this position is $190,000 USD – $246,000 USD, plus bonus eligibility and equity.

For all other locations in the US, the expected salary range for this position is $160,000 USD – $200,000 USD, plus bonus eligibility and equity.

For candidates being considered outside of the US, location specific market data will be evaluated and discussed during the interview process.

Ending blurb

Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 83% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.

For US Employees: Censys offers a competitive benefits package to employees, including equity, health, dental & vision coverage, retirement with company contribution, parental leave, mental health & wellness benefits, flexible PTO, and a professional development stipend. Censys also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Please see our careers page for more details. For employees located outside of the US, location-specific benefits are available and the information pertaining to those will be provided to you during the interview process.

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to your recruiter. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and in attempt to facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates to keep their cameras on during video interviews. You may also be required to meet a Censys employee at one point during your process. Additionally, if hired, you will be invited to visit Ann Arbor, Michigan for in-person onboarding within the first three months of your start date.

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We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Censys is an equal opportunity employer.

Note to external recruiters/agencies: We are not currently engaging with third-party agencies for this role and will not accept unsolicited outreach. We kindly ask that you do not submit resumes or candidate profiles to our team.