Vanta · 2 weeks ago
Senior Design Manager, Design Systems
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expVanta is a company dedicated to helping businesses earn and prove trust through continuous security monitoring. They are seeking a Senior Design Manager to lead the strategy and management of the Alpaca Design System, ensuring quality and consistency across their products while mentoring a team of designers.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)ComplianceCyber SecurityInternetSoftware
Responsibilities
Set the north star in partnership with engineering. Define and co-own Alpaca’s multi-quarter strategy and roadmap, aligning foundations, components, and tooling with business goals and upmarket maturity. Partner with Engineering Manager Kacey Lewis to shape scope, governance, and quality standards that ensure scalable, accessible, and cohesive experiences
Lead and grow the team. Manage and mentor three design systems designers (and 1 hire ahead), establishing rituals, critique, standards, and a culture of craft, pace, and psychological safety
Ensure coherence and enable quality. Evolve conventions, tooling, and guidance that prevent UI/UX drift and make it easy for teams to design and build consistently
Build a culture of design and frontend excellence. Partner with engineering to strengthen shared ownership of quality across the EPD org. Champion system thinking, frontend craftsmanship, and consistent use of Alpaca to elevate quality and accelerate delivery
Raise accessibility and internationalization standards. Embed accessibility and internationalization requirements into definitions of ready and done, supported by reusable guidance, and ensure testing and automation coverage
Support a visual refresh. Partner with brand and product design to evolve the visual language of the Alpaca Design System and Vanta’s product experience. Plan and guide the rollout of foundational and component updates, ensuring a smooth and coordinated product-wide migration
Communicate up and across. Share updates and tradeoffs clearly with leadership. Build trust and shared ownership with product, engineering, brand, and go-to-market stakeholders
Measure and iterate. Define system health metrics (adoption, detach rate, design review issues, build time saved, migration progress) and use them to prioritize and celebrate progress
Qualification
Required
10+ years in product design with at least 3 years leading design systems teams in a fast-growing B2B SaaS environment
Experience supporting enterprise-scale use cases
Proven ability to set and uphold healthy system rules and boundaries that maintain quality and consistency
Ability to offer clear and practical approaches to leveraging and extending the system to keep teams moving forward
Moves fluidly between tokens, components, and page standards, balancing strong aesthetics, accessibility, and performance
Demonstrates hands-on craft leadership, guiding designers toward high-quality, maintainable outcomes
Experience leading or supporting large-scale visual refreshes or component library migrations
Experienced with design tokens, theming, and React component libraries like Radix
Strong grasp of accessibility and performance tradeoffs
Experienced in co-planning with engineering and product
Ability to influence through clarity and rationale, and earning trust across disciplines
Experience delivering versioned systems with governance, contribution models, deprecations, and company-wide migrations
Comfortable defining and using outcome-oriented metrics to focus the roadmap and communicate progress
Excellent communication skills, able to simplify complex tradeoffs and clearly articulate rationale to executives, engineers, and designers alike
Benefits
100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
16 weeks fully-paid parental Leave for all new parents
Health & wellness and remote workplace stipends
Family planning benefits through Carrot Fertility
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours and location
Open PTO policy
11 paid holidays in the US
Company
Vanta
Vanta is a trust management platform that automates compliance and risk management.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$503MKey Investors
Wellington ManagementSequoia CapitalCrowdStrike
2025-07-23Series D· $150M
2024-07-24Series C· $150M
2023-05-10Series B
Leadership Team
Christina Cacioppo
Cofounder and CEO
David Eckstein
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
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