Director, Product Design

Join the team turning internet intelligence into real-world security outcomes. Built on the world’s most comprehensive and accurate map of the Internet, the Censys Platform delivers real-time visibility and actionable intelligence needed to accelerate triage, investigate threats, hunt adversaries, and manage Internet exposure. We're trusted by half of the Fortune 500 and government agencies all around the world, and looking for people as passionate about the problems we're solving as we are.

About the Role

Censys maps the entire Internet so defenders can investigate threats and manage exposure across their own infrastructure and their suppliers. We're hiring a design leader to own product design across our portfolio of products spanning Security Investigation, Exposure Management, Platform and Internet Map. You'll lead a team of three product designers while staying hands-on, setting the strategy and the quality bar and designing critical workflows yourself. Our users are security practitioners, including threat hunters, security analysts, and exposure management teams, who work with dense, fast-moving Internet data, and good design is how they find what matters in it. You'll partner with Product, Engineering, Research, and go-to-market leaders to create a cohesive product experience and to define how AI fits into security workflows. This role reports to our CTO and has a direct voice in product strategy.

What you'll do:

- Lead, coach, and grow a team of three product designers through 1:1s, design critique, and clear career paths, building independent judgement and ownership, and recruit new designers as the team scales.

- Stay hands-on: design key end-to-end workflows yourself, from early concepts and interactive prototypes through implementation, working with engineers to deliver a high-quality experience.

- Set the design vision and strategy across the entire product portfolio, and bring a design point of view to roadmap decisions with Product and Engineering leadership.

- Connect data exploration,Investigations and exposure management user journeys into a consistent experience, with a focus on usability, discoverability and onboarding.

- Partner with Product and Engineering to design AI-assisted and agentic workflows for triage, investigations, threat hunting, and risk prioritization, making evidence and user controls clear.

- Evolve and scale the Censys design system so teams ship consistent, accessible UI faster, with clear ownership of design guidance and reusable components.

- Build research into the team's practice: observe real workflows, synthesize design partner feedback and usage data, and turn findings into prioritized product opportunities. Measure success through time to value and adoption.

- Present design work and strategy through clear narrative and working prototypes, and align executives and key stakeholders on product direction and user value.

- Evolve design operations, critique rituals, and cross-functional practices that keep quality high as the team grows and help teams resolve tradeoffs early. .

- Use AI and agentic design tools in daily work to explore ideas, synthesize research and build interactive prototypes that help Product and Engineering align on requirements and iterate quickly. Apply sound judgment to validate the outcomes.

Skills and experience you'll have:

Required

- Demonstrated experience leading and growing product design teams for enterprise SaaS products, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.

- Current, hands-on product design practice; you're comfortable owning complex workflows yourself while leading others.

- A portfolio that shows systems thinking, interaction design, and leadership of complex, enterprise-level products with clear examples of your personal contribution.

- Experience making complex data and workflows understandable and actionable in B2B tools for cybersecurity, networking, or in