Senior User Experience Designer (Security)

• We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to help define and deliver Cribl security product experience. You will design for security practitioners across detection, alerting, investigation, triage, search, threat coverage, telemetry, and AI-assisted workflows
• This role requires a genuine security background and the ability to turn complex SOC workflows into clear, trustworthy experiences.
• You will partner with Product, Engineering, UX Research, and other designers to create a cohesive experience that works seamlessly with our other products across the entire Cribl platform
• Lead end-to-end design from problem framing and research through interaction design, prototyping, validation, and implementation
• Design workflows for detection creation and management, alert review, investigation, triage, search pivots, threat coverage, normalization, and enrichment
• Apply security judgment to evidence, provenance, confidence, severity, permissions, auditability, destructive actions, and operational risk
• Design AI-assisted and agentic experiences that make intent, context, sources, capabilities, uncertainty, and user approval clear
• Use Cribl’s design system and contribute reusable components, patterns, guidance, and interaction models when the work has broader value
• Work expertly in Figma for exploration, prototyping, documentation, collaboration, and handoff, including libraries, variables, components, variants, and tokens
• Partner with engineers, PMs and designers through ideation, development to support feasibility, accessibility, resilience, and high-fidelity implementation challenges
• Share work early and often through critiques and working sessions. Give and receive specific, constructive feedback
• Use research and product evidence to prioritize opportunities, evaluate concepts, and improve shipped workflows
• Communicate design rationale, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical partners
• We are a remote-first company and work happens across many time-zones - you may be required to occasionally perform duties outside your standard working hours

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance: Our comprehensive benefit plans have you and your family covered when it comes to the important stuff. Beyond the basics, we also have supplemental plans like accident insurance, One Medical, and FSA/HSA accounts.
• Disability and income protection: When you need it most, Cribl’s disability and income protection benefits have your back, with up to 4 weeks of paid medical leave. We also cover basic life insurance with options to increase your coverage.
• Mental health Care: Mental health is physical health! We offer free coaching, therapy sessions and more through Modern Health to support you in navigating all aspects of life.
• Retirement plan: Saving for the future doesn’t happen all at once. We offer retirement accounts to help you make progress towards your financial goals.
• Family planning: Regardless of what your family unit looks like at home, Cribl supports your journey by offering family-forming benefits from adoption, to fertility, and through postpartum. We also offer a paid gender-neutral parental leave benefit to support you and your family.
• Time off: We offer generous, flexible time off for all employees and empower you to balance your work and life in the ways that suit you best. Twice a year we all log off together for a “Recharge Day”, and in December we enjoy a company-wide winter break.
• Remote office perks: All new employees receive a one-time $1,000 stipend towards their home-office set up. We also offer a monthly reimbursement for phone, internet, coworking pass, or a weekly meal.- Strong product thinking and interaction-design skills, with the ability to make complex technical workflows simple without oversimplifying them
• Expert Figma skills, including advanced prototyping and design documentation
• Understanding of AI tools and AI UX interaction models is required. You can design experiences where AI assists, recommends, generates, investigates, or takes action while preserving user understanding, control, and trust
• A security background, such as security product design, security operations, threat detection, incident response, threat hunting, detection engineering, SOC workflows, SIEM, EDR, SOAR, or a related discipline
• A portfolio with case studies that show your role, process, decisions, collaboration, and outcomes. Candidates will be asked to present and discuss previous work
• Experience collaborating closely with Product and Engineering in an iterative and changing environment
• Strong communication, facilitation, and problem solving skills, including the ability to make progress when information is incomplete
• 5+ years experience designing complex B2B software, enterprise platforms, or products for technical users
• Understanding of security practitioners’ realities, including noisy signals, incomplete evidence, time pressure, and high-consequence decisions
• Demonstrated expertise working in and contributing to design systems. You know when to use existing patterns and when to extend them thoughtfully
• Experience designing AI-assisted, agentic, conversational, or other emerging interaction models
• Familiarity with OCSF, MITRE ATT&CK, KQL, Sigma, detection rules, threat intelligence, or related concepts
• Familiarity with WCAG principles, keyboard interactions, focus management, semantic structure, color contrast, and accessible content patterns
• Understanding of accessible product design and inclusive interaction practices
• Experience designing for roles, permissions, tenants, environments, or different levels of technical expertise
• Experience with security data, detections, alerts, investigations, threat intelligence, telemetry, data pipelines, or analytical workflows
• Familiarity with research tools such as Dovetail, including transcripts, tagging, themes, repositories, and insights