Senior Product Designer, Risk Modeling

Job description

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Product Designer, Risk Modeling based in the United States.** As a Senior Product Designer, Risk Modeling, you will shape intuitive digital experiences that help organizations identify, assess, prioritize, and manage risk with confidence. You will transform complex risk-management processes into clear, connected workflows that support informed decision-making across security, compliance, and business teams. Working closely with Product, Engineering, Research, Data, and customer-facing stakeholders, you will lead design initiatives from early discovery through launch and continuous improvement. You will develop scalable interaction patterns and information architectures for configurable, data-rich enterprise products. Your work will help users move beyond manual documentation toward proactive risk modeling, transparent decision-making, and actionable insights. This remote opportunity is ideal for an experienced designer who combines strong product thinking, systems-level design expertise, and exceptional attention to user experience. You will also influence broader design standards by creating reusable patterns for trustworthy, accessible, and scalable product experiences. ### Accountabilities - **End-to-End Product Design:** Lead the complete design lifecycle for Risk Modeling initiatives, from problem discovery and definition through prototyping, implementation, launch, measurement, and iterative improvement. - **Complex Risk Workflows:** Design intuitive experiences for risk registers, risk scenarios, configurable scoring models, controls, ownership assignments, treatment plans, approvals, residual risk, and reporting. - **Risk Modeling and Decision Support:** Help users move from documenting risks to understanding potential impacts, evaluating scenarios, prioritizing responses, and making informed decisions. - **Information Architecture and Interaction Design:** Develop scalable information architectures and interaction models for data-intensive product experiences, including tables, dashboards, reports, detailed views, and interconnected workflows. - **Trustworthy and Transparent Experiences:** Establish design principles that support permissions, auditability, explainability, transparency, and clear communication of uncertainty. Ensure users can review, approve, update, and audit decisions while preserving the context behind them. - **Customer Research and Discovery:** Conduct customer interviews, discovery sessions, and usability testing with risk managers, security and compliance leaders, business stakeholders, risk owners, and other relevant users. - **Cross-Functional Collaboration:** Partner with Product, Engineering, Research, Data, Customer Success, Solutions, and domain experts to translate customer needs, business requirements, technical constraints, and data considerations into effective design solutions. - **Product Strategy and Trade-Offs:** Help teams determine when configurable systems, automation, or guided workflows best address customer needs. Evaluate design alternatives and communicate recommendations based on user value, feasibility, and long-term scalability. - **Design Systems and Reusable Patterns:** Collaborate with design system teams and fellow product designers to establish consistent, reusable patterns for risk-related experiences across the broader product ecosystem. - **Design Documentation and Communication:** Produce design briefs, domain models, workflow diagrams, prototypes, specifications, and other artifacts that clarify complex problems and support effective implementation. - **Design Quality and Craft:** Contribute to design critiques and elevate standards across interaction design, information architecture, UX writing, data visualization, and visual design. - **Organizational Improvement:** Identify opportunities to strengthen collaboration between design and product teams, improve working practices, and establish effective approaches to solving complex product challenges. - **Responsible Use of AI:** Incorporate modern tools, including AI where appropriate, to improve design workflows, accelerate exploration, and strengthen outcomes while maintaining quality and sound professional judgment. ## Requirements - **Professional Experience:** At least 7 years of product design experience, with a strong background in B2B SaaS, enterprise software, complex workflows, or other sophisticated digital products. - **Enterprise Product Design:** Demonstrated experience designing enterprise, administrative, risk, security, compliance, finance, or other high-stakes products involving multiple user types and complex decision-making. - **Configurable Systems Expertise:** Experience designing products with configurable settings, multiple personas, permissions, interconnected objects, and complex workflows. - **Systems Thinking:** Ability to understand and design relationships between interconnected entities, such as risks, controls, assets, vendors, owners, treatment plans, and reports. - **Data-Driven Interface Design:** Strong experience designing data-dense interfaces, tables, reporting experiences, and information architectures that help users interpret complex information and take appropriate action. - **Product Discovery and Strategic Thinking:** Ability to frame ambiguous problems, learn unfamiliar domains quickly, conduct meaningful discovery, and identify the most important questions to address before designing solutions. - **Exceptional Design Craft:** Strong skills in interaction design, information architecture, UX writing, data visualization, prototyping, and visual design. - **Cross-Functional Collaboration:** Proven ability to work effectively with Product, Engineering, Research, Data, customer-facing teams, and subject-matter experts to deliver high-quality product experiences. - **Security and Risk Awareness:** A thoughtful approach to designing for sensitive information, permissions, auditability, explainability, uncertainty, and recovery from incorrect or incomplete user inputs. - **Portfolio and Delivery Experience:** A portfolio demonstrating successfully delivered product work, complex workflows, thoughtful trade-offs, and evidence of incorporating customer feedback into design decisions. - **Versatility and Attention to Detail:** Ability to move between high-level systems thinking and detailed interaction design while balancing user needs, technical feasibility, and business objectives. - **Communication and Influence:** Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate design rationale, explain trade-offs, and influence cross-functional stakeholders without relying on formal authority. - **Adaptability and Judgment:** Curiosity, strong problem-solving skills, and comfort working in complex product environments where requirements, customer expectations, and best practices continue to evolve. - **AI and Modern Tools:** Willingness to use contemporary design tools and AI capabilities where they provide value, while exercising sound judgment and maintaining high standards for quality. - **Work Authorization:** Must be authorized to work in the United States without requiring current or future employer-sponsored work authorization. ## Benefits - **Competitive compensation:** Annual base salary ranging from $197,000 to $232,000, depending on location, skills, experience, and relevant qualifications. - **Equity compensation:** Equity opportunities in addition to base salary. - **Comprehensive healthcare:** Medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only premiums covered for most medical plans. - **Retirement savings:** 401(k) plan with matching contributions and immediate vesting. - **Paid parental leave:** 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents. - **Flexible time off:** Flexible paid time off, 80 hours of sick time, and 11 company-paid holidays. - **Health and wellness:** A dedicated health and wellness stipend to support employee well-being. - **Remote work support:** Stipends for home workspace, internet, and cellphone expenses. - **Family planning benefits:** Access to benefits designed to support family planning needs. - **Commuter benefits:** Transportation benefits for eligible employees reporting to the San Francisco and New York City offices. - **Flexible work environment:** Remote work opportunities across the United States, with access to offices in San Francisco, New York City, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney. - **Learning and team engagement:** Virtual team-building activities, lunch-and-learn sessions, and company-wide events that encourage collaboration and professional development. - **Inclusive culture:** A commitment to diversity, equal opportunity, and a supportive environment where professionals from different backgrounds can contribute and thrive.