Principal UX Designer

The UX design team at ExtraHop works alongside product management and engineering in building a cutting-edge cybersecurity product for IT teams at Fortune 2000 companies. As a designer on our team, you will dive into customer needs and problems and design solutions that deliver actionable insights, informative data visualizations, and powerful investigative functionality to cybersecurity professionals.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Meet with customers and stakeholders to gather requirements and feedback

• Design detailed user flows, interactions, components, states, and screens

• Collaborate with PM, UX, and engineering teams to launch new features and evolve existing ones based on an understanding of user needs, business objectives, and technical constraints

• Cleary and thoughtfully articulate design decisions and advocate for users

• Drive feature designs through all stages of the product development lifecycle

• Communicate solutions using diagrams, wireframes, task flows, prototypes, mockups, or other deliverables

• Test ideas and rapidly incorporate user and stakeholder feedback

• Work with developers to ensure smooth handoff and implementation of designs through close collaboration and creation of UI specifications

• Contribute to design system and design documentation

• Identify ways to improve user experiences in the product

A successful candidate will have:

• 6+ years of experience in UX with portfolio of case studies demonstrating design process

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field

• Proven success in leading design solutions in enterprise products from start to finish across cross-functional teams

• Experience working with design systems

• Ability to conduct user research to clarify complex and ambiguous problems

• Expert knowledge of user-centered design process and interface design principles

• Excellent attention to detail

• Excellent communication skills and collaborative spirit

• Proficiency in Figma, Sketch, or comparable design tool

• Experience working with Agile development is a plus

• Experience working with data visualizations is a plus

• Experience working with design systems is a plus

• Experience in the cyber security industry is a plus