Staff Product Designer, Design Systems

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it.  Vanta's Design Systems team is the foundational layer that powers visual consistency, design quality, and engineering velocity across all of Vanta's product surfaces. The Design Systems team builds and maintains Vanta's shared component library, design tokens, interaction patterns, and documentation — enabling product designers and engineers to ship high-quality, cohesive experiences at scale. As Vanta grows across GRC, Trust, Design Systems, and new product areas, the Design Systems team plays a critical role in maintaining quality, reducing design and engineering debt, and accelerating the entire product organization. What you’ll do as a Staff Product Designer at Vanta: Building and evolving a robust, scalable component library used across every product team Establishing and maintaining design tokens, typography, spacing, color systems, and interaction patterns Creating and enforcing documentation standards, contribution models, and design governance frameworks Partnering with front-end engineering to ensure design-to-code fidelity and maintain a shared component vocabulary Driving design system adoption across product teams through education, tooling, and proactive partnership Evolving the design system to support accessibility and platform scalability across Vanta's growing product suite Deep expertise building and maintaining scalable design systems for complex B2B SaaS products, including component architecture, design tokens, and pattern libraries Strong visual design foundation with mastery of typography, color theory, spacing, interaction design, and accessibility principles Proven ability to govern and evolve a desig