The Director of Product Design will lead product design vision and execution, building user-centered designs for Cyderes' MDR platform, while mentoring a design team and collaborating with various stakeholders.
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Role Summary:
The Director of Product Design will lead the vision, strategy, and execution of product design across Cyderes’ MDR platform and customer experiences. This role is responsible for building a cohesive, user-centered design function that simplifies complex security workflows and elevates Cyderes’ product experience.
You will partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, SOC leadership, Threat Research, and Go-To-Market teams to ensure design is embedded early and deeply into product strategy and execution. This is a hands-on leadership role combining design craft, systems thinking, and people leadership.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the product design vision across Cyderes’ MDR platform, ensuring a consistent, intuitive, and scalable user experience.
- Translate complex security data, workflows, and SOC operations into clear, actionable, and elegant experiences.
- Establish and evolve Cyderes’ design principles, standards, and design system.
- Lead end-to-end design for core workflows including alerting, investigation, response, reporting, and customer visibility.
- Proactively build trusted relationships with Product Management and Engineering to deliver customer delight, easy usability and intuitive value
- Champion user research and usability testing to deeply understand customer, analyst, and internal SOC user needs.
- Use insights from customers, SOC analysts, and stakeholders to inform design decisions and priorities.
- Balance usability, speed, accessibility, and scalability in a complex enterprise environment to quickly drive results
- Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing team of Product Designers and UX professionals.
- Foster a strong design culture focused on collaboration, craft excellence, and customer outcomes.
- Own and scale a robust design system that supports consistency, efficiency, and accessibility across products.
- Ensure design quality, usability, and visual excellence across all product surfaces.
- Establish processes for design reviews, critiques, and continuous improvement.
- Communicate complex concepts with clarity to leadership
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in product design or UX, with 4+ years in a design leadership role.
- Experience designing complex B2B SaaS or enterprise platforms.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating systems thinking, workflow design, and impact at scale.
- Proven experience partnering with Product and Engineering leaders.
- Excellent communication, storytelling, and stakeholder influence skills.
- Experience in cybersecurity, data-intensive platforms, or developer/analyst tools.
- Familiarity with SOC workflows, alerting systems, dashboards, or security analytics.
- Experience building and scaling design systems.
- Experience leading design in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
Cyderes is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, national origin, or veteran status.
Note: This job posting is intended for direct applicants only. We request that outside recruiters do not contact us regarding this position.
Top Skills
B2B Saas
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