Senior Product Designer

Summary

Join UpGuard as a Senior Product Designer and play a key role in shaping features for our growing cybersecurity SaaS platform. Collaborate with PMs, engineers, and designers to create user-focused experiences. Lead the design of end-to-end product experiences, from concept to execution and iteration. Partner with various teams to shape feature direction and design decisions. Contribute to our design system and improve design quality. Refine designs using feedback from customers and internal input. Work with engineers to build and ship high-quality products. This role requires 5+ years of experience in commercial product design, a strong portfolio showcasing interaction and visual design, and proficiency in Figma.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years of commercial product design experience with a strong track record of shipping simple, intuitive user experiences that solve real-world problems
• Craft : You care deeply about quality, balancing visual polish with thoughtful problem-solving. Your portfolio shows strong interaction and visual design, as well as clear thinking behind the work and the outcomes it delivered
• Proactivity: You take initiative, seek clarity, and drive your work forward without needing hand-holding. You're comfortable owning features end-to-end and navigating ambiguity with confidence
• Systems : Experience contributing to and evolving design systems with engineers and designers. You also help shape internal team processes that improve collaboration, quality, and consistency
• Communication : Clear communicator who explains design rationale well, gives actionable feedback, and works smoothly with remote teams
• Collaboration : A low-ego, team-first approach to working with PMs, engineers, and other designers — you know when to lead, when to support, and how to uplift others
• Growth mindset: You’re always looking to improve, open to feedback, and proactive about learning. You draw inspiration from industry best practice and apply it thoughtfully to your work
• Tools: You have strong experience with Figma and use it to efficiently create production-ready designs. You’re comfortable with modern tooling and staying up to date as the ecosystem evolves

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of end-to-end product experiences, from early concept through to polished execution and iteration
• Partner with PMs, engineers, and subject matter experts to shape feature direction and design decisions
• Align on discovery efforts, contribute to research plans, run interviews, and translate insights into opportunities
• Prototype and test ideas with the right level of fidelity for each stage of the process
• Improve core user flows by simplifying complexity and enhancing clarity and usability
• Contribute to our design system and help raise the bar on design quality across teams
• Refine designs using feedback from customers, product data, and internal input
• Collaborate with engineers to build, test, and ship high-quality product experiences

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in cybersecurity. If not, you’ll just need to be willing to learn
• Experience in designing SaaS software
• Experience working in an agile software development team
• Experience designing for a multilingual audience

Benefits

• Monthly Lifestyle subsidy: use this for financial, physical and mental wellbeing (all regions)
• WFH set-up allowance: to ensure you have the right environment to work in, we will help you get set up within your first 3 months at UpGuard (all regions)
• $1500 USD annual Learning & Development allowance: to support your career development all team members will be able to expense development opportunities against this allowance (all regions)
• Generous Annual Leave/PTO allowances: time to recharge your batteries (all regions)
• 18 weeks paid Parental Leave: irrespective of parenting role (all regions)
• Personal Leave allowance: this includes sick & carer’s leave (all regions)
• Fully remote working environment: whilst we have physical offices in Sydney & Hobart, we do not mandate compulsory attendance (all regions)
• Top-spec hardware: all team members will be provided with top-spec laptops for their role (all regions)
• Personal device security & online privacy protection subsidy: UpGuard provides team members with a paid subscription to personal device security & online privacy protection platform (all regions)