Director, Product Design

Join the team turning internet intelligence into real-world security outcomes. Built on the world’s most comprehensive and accurate map of the Internet, the Censys Platform delivers real-time visibility and actionable intelligence needed to accelerate triage, investigate threats, hunt adversaries, and manage Internet exposure. We’re trusted by half of the Fortune 500 and government agencies all around the world, and looking for people as passionate about the problems we’re solving as we are.

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.

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

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.