Job description

Protect AI is seeking a product designer to own and build our internal design system. The selected candidate will work closely with the design, product, and engineering teams. You will play a crucial role in shaping the user experience of the platform, supporting the design team in creating new components, UI patterns, and guidelines. You’ll serve as the bridge between design and engineering, ensuring that designs are implemented with the highest quality in UX/UI. A deep technical understanding of the product and various use cases is essential, as is knowledge of what can or cannot be built within a reasonable timeframe.

You will:

• Own the Figma component library end-to-end.

• Actively contribute to Storybook. 

• Comfortable with front-end development and React. Able to create a basic prototype of the component in React. 

• Lead the process of component creation and communication across global design and engineering teams.

• Participate in product calls to understand use cases and support designs in building scalable components.

• Support product and engineering teams in designing new features for the platform according to best UX practices and good interaction design principles.

• Ensure a smooth component-building process, consistency, application, and documentation.

• Make informed design decisions by utilizing customer feedback, stakeholder feedback, and industry research.

• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders across the company to ensure that scoping accounts for all different needs and requirements.

What we are looking for:

• 5+ years of UX/UI design experience (or equivalent).

• Strong understanding of frontend development. 

• Understands design cycle from concept, research, scoping, wireframing, designing, prototyping and testing. 

• Experience with complex web applications and enterprise software.

• Experience with designing a saas product. 

• Experience with interaction design and building complex UI patterns. 

• Quick design iterations as per user feedback and research. 

• Good at documentation and being able to present work to product and engineering effectively. 

• Knowledge of accessibility and responsive design. 

• A portfolio that demonstrates a strong understanding of consistency, typography, color, design layouts, and attention to detail. 

• Excellent verbal and written communication.

• Exhibit a high degree of ownership and accountability for assigned projects.

• Knowledge of working in an agile environment is a plus. 

Qualifications:

• B.A. in UX Design, Graphic Design or relating field preferred. 

• Portfolio demonstrating strong user-centered design, research process, usability principles and web based UX/UI examples.

• Pixel perfect mock-ups or prototypes. 

• Updated on latest design and ux trends.

• Proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Figma. 

• Strong understanding of other tools like Storybook and React. 

Nice to have:

• Degree or certification in front-end development. 

• Experience with B2B enterprise software.

• Accessible design in dark mode.

What we offer:

• An exciting, collaborative work environment in a fast-growing startup.

• Competitive salary and benefits package.

• Opportunities for professional growth and development including attending and presenting technical talks at meetups and conferences.

• A culture that values innovation, accountability, and teamwork.

• Opportunities to contribute to our open source projects with thousands of Github stars.

• Work with a team of talented and well-accomplished peers from AWS, Microsoft and Oracle Cloud.

• Work with best in class tools — M2 Macbook Pro, 34” Monitor, modern tech stack and high quality collaboration tools.

• No bureaucracy and legacy systems. You are empowered to innovate and do your best work.

Protect AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

About ProtectAI:

Protect AI has been named one of the Top 100 AI most promising artificial intelligence startups of 2023 by CB Insights.

Protect AI is innovating at the cutting edge of ML and Security. AI/ML bring new and unique cybersecurity vulnerabilities. While traditional exploits can be detected and mitigated, new ML-specific threats such as ML code injection attacks, prompt injection attacks and attacks on the ML supply chain require entirely new thinking, research, and methods to help this AI-enabled world be safer for all. Protect AI is giving enterprise cybersecurity and ML teams a common way to understand these new risks by enabling ML developers to build security into their applications from the start.