Ensuring our components meet product needs and keep look and feel consistent, intuitive, and premium for our end customers across a quickly growing engineering org rapidly shipping new capabilities is key to Vanta’s success.
Requirements
- Over 9 years of industry experience with deep expertise in one or more technical areas (e.g., frontend, design systems, accessibility, app performance, runtime).
- Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives, driving strategic projects and improving organizational processes in fast-paced, dynamic environments.
- Mastery in system design and software architecture, with an emphasis on user experience and accessibility standards, and a strong sense of design craft.
- Extensive experience building tooling and abstractions for developers that result in user-facing experiences.
- Expertise in debugging and supporting platform tooling for the frontend.
Responsibilities
- Be a leader for and advise on UI/UX best practices and standards at Vanta bringing a high bar for design craft ensuring our components are both functional and refined
- Build, maintain, and update existing shared UI components to ensure they are consistent across our system and product, bug free, well tested, and well documented.
- Educate all engineers in UX and industry standards and best practices, our Design System guidance, and how to implement in code.
- Support product team use cases through building new shared patterns when it makes sense to extend the system, or updating guidance.
- Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects that lay the groundwork for building highly performant and reliable systems.
- Lead key technical decisions that will form the system’s stance and recommendations for product teams.
- Address product, technical, and operational challenges with clear, impactful solutions.
Other
- Serve as a cultural leader, modeling collaborative behaviors and mentoring engineers to elevate organizational performance.
- Rally cross-functional teams to drive initiatives to completion, even without direct management of team members.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and advocate for technical decisions at all levels of the organization.
- Strong leadership and mentorship experience, consistently up-leveling teams and leading by example.
