Staff Product Designer

Semgrep

Staff Product Designer at Semgrep defining great security tooling experience. Collaborating on product strategy across technical areas to enhance workflows.

Posted 6/2/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California, Colorado, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $205,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own ambiguous cross-cutting design initiatives end-to-end, from problem framing and research through shipped outcomes.
Partner closely with PM and engineering leads to shape roadmap direction and product strategy grounded in real user needs and behaviors.
Design whole systems. You’ll make complex security workflows feel simple and trustworthy.
Conduct and champion user research and share the knowledge you gain about users and their workflows. You’re comfortable with both qualitative and quantitative signals like task success and time on task.
Raise the quality bar through strong craft, clear thinking, thoughtful critique, and high standards for execution.
Build guidance and tools that enable non-designers to make better design decisions.
Help shape how design scales at Semgrep as the team and product grow.
Use AI tools as a core part of how you design and build when they meaningfully improve speed or quality.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Have 8+ years of product design experience working on complex digital products, ideally with exposure to developer tooling, security, or other technical enterprise products.
Have led design on complex, cross-team initiatives with meaningful product and organizational impact.
Are comfortable working closely with engineers and understanding technical systems in depth.
Use research, data, and customer conversations to inform decisions.
Have the ability to balance systems thinking with attention to detail, and to iterate quickly while maintaining a high quality bar.
Communicate clearly and bring structure to ambiguous problems.
Have a genuine interest in making the designers around you better. Have a proven track record of mentoring other designers.
Are excited about using AI tools as part of your design and prototyping workflow and already have opinions about how to use these tools well.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Our compensation package includes equity and benefits in addition to salary.
We invest in our employees’ well-being and long-term success through a competitive, market-aligned benefits program that meets or exceeds local market standards across all of the regions in which we hire. Benefits offerings vary by location to reflect local requirements and norms.

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Hard Skills & Tools

product designuser researchsystems thinkingqualitative analysisquantitative analysisdesign critiqueprototypingiterative designworkflow designAI tools

Soft Skills

communicationmentoringproblem framingattention to detailcollaborationcritical thinkinguser empathyleadershipadaptabilitystructured thinking