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As a Lead Product Designer, you'll lead the design team, create user-centric designs for mobile and web applications, and collaborate with product managers and engineers to ensure intuitive interfaces aligning with business requirements and cybersecurity principles.
BlackCloak’s mission is to protect corporate executives and high-profile individuals in their personal lives, mitigating risks to their families, companies, reputation, and finances. We defend our clients’ digital lives from hackers, privacy leaks, and identity theft. If you are passionate about helping to protect others, then keep reading - this may be your next great opportunity.
As a Lead Product Designer, you will help shape exceptional user-centric mobile and web applications across multiple platforms, contributing both design execution and system-level thinking. Working closely with our product team, you will work to understand business requirements and apply your knowledge of design principles to propose UI/UX design solutions. You will also work with the development team members to assess feasibility and coordinate the design and implementation of solutions.
What You Will Do
- Act as the owner and champion of user experience at BlackCloak.
- Mature and grow the design function as a critical component of the software development life cycle.
- Lead the design team and coordinate work across a combination of contractors and full-time employees.
- Design and deliver wireframes, user flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups for cybersecurity applications and tools tailored for technical and non-technical users.
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and security experts to create interfaces that simplify complex cybersecurity concepts while maintaining user trust.
- Design for three distinct applications (mobile app, client portal, internal admin tool), supporting cross-platform UX strategy and system alignment.
- Translate technical and security requirements into intuitive, user-friendly designs that prioritize privacy and protection.
- Take a lead role in building out our new tokenized design system.
- Help define and evolve our multi-platform design architecture.
- Support a cohesive component library for consistency and implementation speed.
- Stay informed about the latest trends in cybersecurity, UX design, and accessibility standards to deliver innovative solutions.
- Work with the product team and customers to understand business requirements and processes in relation to contextual user behavior for superior design proposals.
- Work closely with the development team to gauge the feasibility of proposed designs and ensure support of business requirements while conforming to proposed Design Standards.
- Help build and refine our internal design process, including design reviews, documentation standards, and collaborative workflows with product and engineering.
- Present design concepts to cross-functional teams and stakeholders, and incorporate feedback in fast-paced design-build cycles.
- Conduct user research and usability testing to understand the unique needs of high-stakes users and incorporate feedback into designs.
What You Will Need to be Successful
- A bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 5+ years of experience in UI/UX design, preferably in cybersecurity, SaaS, or enterprise solutions.
- Proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, or similar. Figma is strongly preferred.
- Strong understanding of user-centered design principles, accessibility standards, and responsive design.
- Experience conducting user research and usability testing with sensitive or high-stakes user groups.
- Familiarity with designing for secure and privacy-focused applications.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to present design decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Attention to detail and a creative approach to problem-solving.
About BlackCloak
BlackCloak is an extremely fast-growing company in an entirely new product category. We have amazing product fit validated by industry awards and an impressive client base of Fortune 500 companies across all industries.
BlackCloak offers a competitive salary, exceptional benefits, and a dynamic work environment. Below is a quick summary of BlackCloak’s generous benefits package for full-time employees includes:
- 100% Remote Company, within the USA
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans with a 100% employer-paid monthly premium option for employees & 50% employer-paid monthly premiums for dependents.
- Health Savings Account with company contribution for eligible medical plans.
- Flexible Vacation Plan
- 10 Paid Company Holidays
- 100% employer-paid Life, AD&D and Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- 401k with Traditional and Roth options, including employer match.
- Company Equity
- Paid Parental and Pregnancy Recovery Leave
- Company and team off-sites and virtual events throughout the year
- Home office stipend
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, national or ethnic origin, military service status, citizenship, or other protected characteristic.
Learn More about Us
Website: https://blackcloak.io
LinkedIn: /blackcloak
Twitter: @BlackCloakCyber
White Paper: https://bc.blackcloak.io/quantifying-the-business-need-for-digital-executive-protection-report-download
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Top Skills
Adobe Xd
Figma
Sketch
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