Senior/Staff Product Designer, Zurich
Lakera
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Zürich • Switzerland
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About the role
- This role sits at the strategic intersection of product, customer needs, and AI research. You'll work directly with Product Managers, engineers, our ML research team, and our global customer base.
- Design novel security interfaces: Threat detection dashboards that visualize real-time attacks on AI systems, Incident response workflows for when an AI system is compromised, Configuration interfaces for AI guardrails that must be simultaneously powerful, flexible, and error-proof.
- Translate complexity into clarity: Making AI concepts legible to security experts, security architects, and AI developers.
- Building our design team culture and helping to grow the team.
Requirements
- 4+ years designing products and UX for technical users
- A portfolio demonstrating your ability to take genuinely complex problems and create elegant, functional solutions.
- Expert proficiency in Figma and modern prototyping tools
- Deep understanding of information architecture, interaction design, and visual design, and when to prioritize each.
- First principles thinker: When there are no established patterns, you can reason from fundamentals about what users need and how systems should behave.
- Rigorous but pragmatic: You balance design excellence with technical constraints and business realities.
- Comfortable taking initiative in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment. Highly self-directed with a startup mindset.
- Strong communicator in English who thrives on cross-functional collaboration.
- Always learning: You don't need to be a security expert or ML researcher, but you're genuinely interested in understanding how these systems work.
- Valued but not required: Experience in security, AI/ML products, or developer tools.
- Background in building or scaling design systems.
- Prior experience at growth-stage or early-stage companies.
- Familiarity with using AI tools in your design process.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
UX designinformation architectureinteraction designvisual designprototypingdesign systemssecurity interfacesthreat detectionincident response workflowsAI guardrails
Soft Skills
first principles thinkinginitiativeself-directedcross-functional collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingadaptabilitylearning mindsetpragmatismteam building