Staff Product Designer, Activation

The posting, as Vanta wrote it

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it.

We are seeking a Staff Product Designer for the Activation team in our Self-Serve group. For a startup, getting SOC2 and ISO compliant is often the first serious security milestone, and it can stall for months. Activation exists to change that: we want every startup that signs up for Vanta to reach audit-ready in days, not months with an AI.

The Activation team is responsible for helping customers get key value out of the product after they purchase. When customers get that value, they're more likely to retain and grow. Activation is an experimentation team, an execution team, and a collaborative platform team - influencing how the rest of the company does growth and designs for a consistent growth experience.

As the Staff Product Designer on Activation, you'll set the experience vision for how customers get compliant with Vanta and you'll carry it from strategy to shipped product. You'll own work that spans multiple quarters, shape the roadmap with your PM and engineering partners, and set direction in a space where the right answer isn't obvious yet. You'll proactively champion craft, best growth experience practices, and a data centric approach to design. You'll also document the strategy and lead the room: sometimes authoring briefs that define our bets, and running stakeholder forums that keep large initiatives moving.

You will report to a Design Manager on the Self-Serve design team, within Vanta's Experience Design organization.

What you’ll do as a Staff Product Designer at Vanta:

• Set the end-to-end experience vision for Activation, from first login to to activation and turn it into a roadmap work your squad can ship cycle by cycle.
• Act as a key driver of product shape and roadmap alongside your PM and EM, bringing a clear design point of view backed by customer evidence and data.
• Design agent-first experiences: decide what the Vanta Agent does on its own, where people review and approve, and how the product earns trust at each step.
• Create new, reusable AI patterns and extend existing ones, so other teams can build guided, agentic experiences faster and more consistently.
• Define the activation outcomes your work is accountable for, partner with Data to instrument them, and run the experiments and iterations that move them.
• Lead customer discovery with cross functional partners and lean engineering teams and share what you learn with leadership in a clear, compelling narrative.
• Align partner teams so growth experiences feel like one product, not an org chart.
• Document the product strategy for your area: write briefs, and POV docs that frame the pro

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• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
• Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney

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About Vanta

We started in 2018, in the wake of several high-profile data breaches. Online security was only becoming more important, but we knew firsthand how hard it could be for fast-growing companies to invest the time and manpower it takes to build a solid security foundation. Vanta was inspired by a vision to restore trust in internet businesses by enabling companies to improve and prove their security. From our early days automating security monitoring for compliance standards like SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 to creating the world's leading Trust Management Platform, our vision remains unchanged.

Now more than ever, making security continuous—not just a point-in-time check— is essential. Thousands of companies rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust— all in a way that's real-time and transparent.

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