Product Designer

Role summary

Finite State is looking for a Product Designer. In this role you will focus on solving customer problems with well designed products and experiences, taking solutions from ideation to production. You’ll help own new features and collaborate closely with other designers, product managers, analysts, and engineers. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with a deep understanding of user-centered design principles and a passion for solving complex problems. This role is a mid level position and reports to the VP of Product.

You must be based in and authorized to work in the US.

Research shows that women and those in underrepresented groups tend to apply only if they meet 100% of the requirements in a job description. If you think you have what it takes, but don’t check off every box - please still get in touch! We’d love to learn more about your experience and what motivates you to see if you’d be a great fit.

As a Product Designer, you will:

• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, customer success managers, and other stakeholders to understand customer needs and problems, strategize, and build solutions
• Conduct user research to understand user needs, behaviors, and pain points.
• Analyze data and feedback to inform design decisions and improvements.
• Design and refine user interfaces that are visually appealing, intuitive, and consistent with our brand.
• Develop detailed interaction flows and animations to enhance user experiences.
• Follow an iterative design process by incorporating feedback, launching quickly, and testing hypotheses in an agile environment
• Create wireframes, prototypes, user and process flows and other artifacts to efficiently and effectively communicate design ideas to a cross-functional team
• Communicate design rationale effectively and advocate for user-centered design principles.
• Stay up to date on current industry and design trends and market conditions
• Uphold our core values of transparency, results, accountability, customer dedication, and courage
• Champion our mission to protect our connected world

What we’re looking for:

• 3+ years of designing B2B software products for technical users, such as dev tools or security tools
• Proven experience in all phases of the design process including user research, copywriting, wireframing, prototyping, visual design, interaction design, and usability testing
• User experience focused design, including creating workflows and ecosystems
• An intuitive eye for customer needs beyond the obvious
• Strong portfolio showcasing a range of design projects and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to collect and interpret both qualitative and quantitative feedback
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Creative problem-solving skills and product thinking experience

It’s a plus if you also have:

• A technical background and familiarity with modern software development practices
• Experience working on products that leverage self-service and product led growth strategies
• Experience designing in Figma
• Knowledge of front-end development technologies, particularly React.js
• Experience working in a startup environment
• Experience working in a continuous delivery model.
• Experience in the cyber security market, specifically in network security analytics, product security, vulnerability discovery and management, application security, and IoT security.

Success path

• In 30 days you will: have gained an understanding of the product, our users, our industry, our business goals and objectives, and are ready to start contributing.
• In 60 days you will: start to take on some smaller tasks of your own and contribute to feature designs, working closely with product managers and other designers, and start independent customer research.
• In 90 days you will: start owning designs and fully understand our industry and our product.