Sophos

Principal UX Designer – Design Systems

Sophos

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United Kingdom

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

Cyber Security

About the role

  • Translate user, product, and business requirements into clear, usable, and intuitive experiences
  • Lead UX design for significant product areas, collaborating closely with product managers, developers, architects, and fellow designers
  • Develop and refine information architecture, navigation models, and interaction patterns across products to ensure consistency and clarity
  • Be responsible for defining, managing, creating and evolving our design system, ensuring scalable and accessible UX patterns
  • Balance design system integrity with real product needs, knowing when to extend, refactor, or introduce new patterns
  • Drive adoption and correct usage of the design system across product teams through guidance, reviews, and enablement
  • Conduct research in collaboration with our researcher, or independently; synthesize data from interviews, analytics, internal SMEs, customer feedback, and competitive analysis
  • Lead or co-lead usability testing sessions; define test goals, write scripts, observe users, and analyze results to inform design
  • Facilitate and lead collaborative workshops (e.g. sketching, journey mapping, prioritization, concept ideation) to drive alignment and insight
  • Develop and refine information architecture across products, ensuring consistency and clarity in navigation and labeling
  • Map end-to-end user journeys and workflows to identify pain points and opportunities
  • Create wireframes, mockups, and high-fidelity interactive prototypes to communicate and validate design direction
  • Serve as a senior design voice within cross-functional teams, championing user-centered thinking and high UX standards
  • Mentor other designers through critique, pairing, and guidance on craft, systems thinking, and problem-solving
  • Support Agile development by contributing to user stories, acceptance criteria, and design QA

Requirements

  • 7+ years of UX design experience (preferably in cybersecurity products, B2B SaaS, or enterprise software)
  • Proven mastery of design systems: creating, maintaining, and evolving component libraries and interaction patterns in Figma
  • Deep passion for crafting thoughtful, elegant solutions to complex user problems
  • Extensive experience designing for large-scale, complex systems, ideally in B2B SaaS or enterprise software
  • Strong understanding of accessibility, usability heuristics, and cognitive principles that underpin high-quality UX
  • Track record of effective collaboration with product, engineering, and architecture partners
  • Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to clearly articulate design rationale to varied audiences
  • Mastery of wireframing and prototyping tools such as Figma, along with strong visual and interaction design skills
  • Experience working in cybersecurity or another highly technical domain is strongly preferred
  • A solid portfolio demonstrating end-to-end UX work for complex systems or workflows
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Hard Skills & Tools
UX designinformation architectureinteraction patternsdesign systemsusability testingwireframingprototypinguser-centered designaccessibilitycognitive principles
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationstorytellingmentoringproblem-solvingfacilitationleadershipcritical thinkingcreativityadaptability