Senior Product Designer
PreVeil is a high-growth SaaS leader dedicated to securing the nation's defense industrial base. We provide a market-leading cybersecurity solution that empowers organizations to accelerate and maintain compliance with the Department of Defense's CMMC program. At PreVeil , we don't just offer a product; we provide a market-proven path to security and compliance, ensuring our customers can focus on their mission while we protect their most sensitive data. Joining PreVeil means joining a team at the forefront of national security innovation during a period of rapid, exciting growth.
What You'll Own
Design Judgment & Problem Solving
• Investigate design challenges with depth — explore multiple approaches, evaluate tradeoffs, and arrive at a clear, well-reasoned point of view
• Articulate design decisions with conviction: why a path was chosen, what alternatives were considered, and what was intentionally left out
• Demonstrate a high bar for what good looks like — backed by evidence from your portfolio and process
Simplifying Complex Experiences
• Translate technically complex product concepts into experiences that feel intuitive and effortless
• Design for both admin and end-user personas — audiences with fundamentally different mental models, workflows, and risk tolerances
• Reduce cognitive load without reducing capability; make hard things feel easy
Cross-Platform Design Consistency
• Own and evolve a design system and component library that scales across Windows, Mac, web, and mobile
• Apply deep knowledge of platform-specific design standards while maintaining a unified PreVeil identity
• Ensure every surface feels like one product — not four separate apps
End-to-End Execution
• Drive the full design lifecycle: discovery, user research, wireframing, prototyping, high-fidelity design, and developer-ready handoff
• Produce clear, complete specs that engineering can act on without ambiguity or back-and-forth
• Actively use AI tools to accelerate iteration, sharpen craft, and explore ideas faster
User Research & Deep User Understanding
• Conduct and synthesize user research to build a genuine picture of how users think, work, and struggle
• Bring evidence of user needs into every design decision — not just instinct
• Identify behavioral patterns across users and translate them into better product decisions
Collaboration & Reliability
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering — communicate clearly, show work early, and iterate based on real feedback
• Be the designer people can count on: have great quality designs that are well thought through, meet commitments, and surface issues proactively
• Work with a low ego and a maker-first mindset — this is a hands-on, high-output role
Core requirements:
- 7+ years of product design experience, with a portfolio demonstrating strong design judgment and enterprise UX depth
- Experience designing enterprise software — ideally on collaboration or productivity software
- Demonstrated ability to simplify complex systems into clear, usable experiences
- Deep knowledge of cross-platform design standards: Windows, Mac, web, and mobile
- Experience owning and scaling design systems and component libraries
- Experience designing for different personas (admins and end-users)
- Fluency in Figma; active use of AI tools to accelerate and sharpen design work
- Comfort operating independently, with ambiguity and in fast-paced environments, with a strong bias for action
- Clear, compelling communicator — you can walk any audience through a design decision and make them believe in it
- Collaborative, reliable, and low-ego — you take direction well and make the team around you better
Nice to have
- Front-end literacy (HTML, CSS, React) for stronger engineering partnership
- Experience in fast-paced startup or growth-stage environments
- Strong initiative and bias for action
- Background designing for technically sophisticated or security-consc