Senior Product Designer

About Semgrep

Semgrep, the leader in code security for builders, empowers invention without friction. Teams catch, flag, and fix real issues before they ship, powered by security that learns as they build. Semgrep secures code as it’s written and provides guardrails that pave the road for developers to move fast and stay secure. Built for builders and trusted by security, Semgrep lives where developers work, delivering fixes without breaking flow, and giving security teams visibility, control, and confidence. Semgrep gets smarter as you build, with AI that learns your context to cut false positives and prioritize reachable vulnerabilities, validated by 95% of security reviewers across 6M+ findings. Semgrep makes zero false positives a reality with AppSec teams triaging 80% fewer false positives across Code and Supply Chain, dramatically shrinking the backlog.

Founded in San Francisco and backed by Menlo Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and Sequoia Capital, Semgrep is recognized by Gartner in Application Security Testing and is trusted by leading organizations, including Vanta, Lyft, and Dropbox. Learn more at semgrep.dev.

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our small, but growing design team of two. In this role, you'll work with engineers, PMs, and fellow designers to research, design, and refine product experiences that make security and software engineering workflows more intuitive. You'll bring clarity to complex, technical problems and will champion both craft and systems thinking to ensure our products are simple, consistent, and delightful to use.

You’ll have the opportunity to influence not only the product, but also the culture of design at a fast-moving growth-stage company while helping to secure some of the world’s most important code.

What you’ll do

• Lead and execute ambiguously scoped design initiatives within and across product teams. 

• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to define product direction and roadmap decisions that are grounded in user needs.

• Advocate for simple and thoughtfully designed workflows across Semgrep products, owning UX metrics like task success, time on task, and support ticket volume.

• Conduct hands-on user research and synthesize and share the knowledge you gain about users and their workflows.

• Build strong cross-functional relationships and involve the wider team in the design process.

• Contribute to design critiques and mentor teammates. Raise the bar for design quality and contribute to a culture of thoughtful feedback.

• Create tools that enable non-designers to make better design decisions to ensure design becomes a multiplier across the organization.

• Establish design standards and processes that will serve as the foundation for our growing team, helping scale design’s impact.

Some example projects that you might work on include

• Designing experiences for AppSec engineers and developers who work in the IDE or through the MCP server.

• Reimagining the information architecture of the Semgrep app to better match user mental models and scale with our growing product surface.

• Evolving workflows like triage, vulnerability detection, and policy creation to be intuitive, trustworthy, and AI-powered. 

• Shaping and codifying our design system components to enable the broader team to self-serve.

You are ideal for this role if you have

• 5+ years of product design experience working on digital products, ideally with exposure to engineer-focused, B2B, or enterprise products.

• A strong understanding of software engineering or experience designing for a technical audience.

• A track record for simplifying complex workflows and making abstract problems more concrete.

• Enthusiasm for user research and a curiosity that motivates you to dig deep into user pain points and behaviors.

• The ability to balance systems thinking with attention to detail, and to iterate quickly while maintaining a high quality bar.

• An interest in experimenting with and prototyping using emerging tools as part of your design process.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Location

Remote friendly but must be willing to Travel to SF or NY offices at least 1 week per quarter.

Compensation

Salary Range: $187,000 - $220,000

Our compensation package includes equity and benefits in addition to salary.

Please note that the range listed is for someone based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

What we offer (FTE only)

Our goal is to competitively and fairly compensate every Semgrep employee with a system that equally rewards those who are vocal and those who are less comfortable making demands during the final steps of the hiring process. To that end, we generate internal compensation bands that are used when discussing and negotiating salaries. We update these based on market data to make sure they’re above the average for comparable roles.

We invest in our employees’ well-being and long-term success through a competitive, market-aligned benefits program that meets or exceeds local market standards across all of the regions in which we hire. Benefits offerings vary by location to reflect local requirements and norms. For more detailed, location-specific information, please visit Semgrep Benefits.

Who we are

We bring together people from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines—from physics and philosophy to formal methods research and full-fledged corporations. We’re new parents and new grads, dog lovers and dogfooders. We get together often to bike, bake, and meet up in parks. In our interactions, we believe respect and honesty go hand in hand, and prioritize both.

Semgrep is an equal-opportunity employer seeking a diverse range of backgrounds. We value who you are — including your cultural heritage, your socioeconomic status, your age, your race, your gender, your sexual orientation, your disabilities. We value what’s vitally important to you — your family, your religion, your politics. We value what you love in this world — your music, your weekend pursuits. We believe in welcoming varied professional backgrounds, educations, and interests. If you’re exceptional in your role, believe in Semgrep’s mission, and treat Semgrep’s values as your own, you belong here.

Please Note: For US-based roles open to remote work, we are currently able to hire employees in the following states only: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.