UX Designer (Xpanse)

Your Career

We’re looking for a UI/UX Designer to join Xpanse, a proactive security product and part of Palo Alto Networks Cortex. 

Our Internet intelligence platform continuously surveys petabytes of data to find risks online and help protect some of the world’s largest organizations from malicious software and hackers. In this role, you’ll directly contribute to our mission by crafting practical, useful, and beautiful design-centric products.

Our designers are collaborative and resourceful. Here, you’ll help shape the future of the product by envisioning, designing, and delivering visually compelling experiences. Your projects will vary widely day-to-day and you’ll be involved in every part of the design process. 

Portfolio Required: Please do not forget to link your portfolio to your resume in order for us to best examine experience and suitability for the position

Your Impact

• Synthesize solutions to complex design problems by asking questions to explore problem areas, considering problems from different angles, and exploring new ways to communicate ideas
• Create impactful product experiences through compelling visuals and prototypes
• Help improve and expand our on–going Cortex Design System
• Apply UI and UX design techniques including user flows, visual design, wireframes, mockup specifications, and prototypes that that transform complex concepts into easy to understand experiences
• Deliver detailed solutions for visualizations, reports, and other customer facing collateral
• Collaborate with peer designers, engineering teams, and product managers to guide the evolution of your product experiences
• Bring a pragmatic approach to design that balances the needs of your customers with the time and effort to create the solutions
• Improve yourself by continuing to grow as a designer by staying on top of current design trends and technologies

Your Experience

• You are a designer by heart - you appreciate good design are passionate about making complex systems simple
• At least 2 years of experience delivering UX / Product design for large scale web applications (please attach a link to your Online portfolio – this is a crucial part in reviewing your application)
• Knowledge of Figma, extending, and maintaining design systems to increase productivity through reusable components and patterns
• Strong Visual Design skills with an excellent eye for details
• Understanding of user experience frameworks such as Jobs to be Done, personas, use cases, mood boards, happy paths, journey maps, etc
• Experience in enterprise SaaS product experiences - security, networking, or similar product experience is a plus but not required
• Comfort with resolving ambiguity through collaboration - not knowing the answer doesn’t bother you and finding the answer excites you
• Team player with simple, direct and positive communication
• Self–managing, self–correcting, autodidact

The Team

Our UX team is an integrated part of the Cortex Xpanse Product team. We work closely with the Product Managers, Customer Success and the Engineering teams to define, design and build our best in class Cyber Security products. We are the user's advocates, the researchers and the designers that make Xpanse products easier to use and more intuitive. Our team is diverse and inclusive, and we would love you to join us. 

More information about Cortex products can be found here. 

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $94000 - $152000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at  [email protected].

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.