Product Designer

Pi Security

$110K — $130K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-5+ years of product design experience with complex, workflow-heavy products.
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating systems thinking in information-dense products.
  • Fluency in design patterns for dashboards and multi-step workflows.
  • Comfortable working closely with engineers on design implementation.
  • Proficient in prototyping tools (preferably Sketch, Figma or similar).
  • Experience conducting fast customer research and usability tests for design decisions.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment.

Responsibilities

  • Own product design for core surfaces including dashboards and workflows.
  • Transform complex security concepts into user-friendly interfaces.
  • Collaborate with product and engineering to clarify ambiguous directions into actionable designs.
  • Extend the product's visual language in partnership with frontend engineers.
  • Conduct user research to inform design choices based on real workflows.
  • Ship designs rapidly while maintaining clarity and trust.
  • Balance speed with thoroughness, especially for security-critical elements.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to be an early design hire with significant influence on product direction.
  • Work closely with the founding team and industry leaders.
  • A collaborative onsite work environment in San Francisco.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We're hiring a Product Designer to help shape the product experience for Pi's agentic security platform at an early, pivotal stage. You'll work closely with product and engineering to turn complex security workflows - findings triage, root-cause investigation, remediation review, and prevention guardrails - into interfaces that feel fast, trustworthy, and obvious to use. This is a hands-on design role: you'll be in the details of interaction and visual design day to day, working across the product as it takes shape.

This role is 100% onsite at our San Francisco office. We're looking for someone who wants to build in person, alongside the founding team, during this stage of the company.
What You'll Do
  • Own product design for Pi's core surfaces - findings, investigations, remediation workflows, dashboards, and the Sloane assistant experience - from early concept through shipped detail.
  • Turn dense, technical security and engineering context into interfaces that are fast to scan, easy to trust, and simple to act on, for both security teams and developers.
  • Work directly with product and engineering to translate ambiguous product direction into concrete flows, prototypes, and polished UI.
  • Design within and help extend the product's visual language and component patterns, partnering closely with frontend engineers who implement in React, and Next.js.
  • Run discovery with customers and internal stakeholders - interviews, workflow shadowing, usability testing - to ground design decisions in how security and engineering teams actually work.
  • Balance speed with rigor: ship quickly, but hold the line on clarity and trust for a product that security teams depend on.
What We're Looking For
  • 3-5+ years of product design experience, including owning complex, workflow-heavy products end to end (not just marketing sites or simple CRUD apps).
  • A portfolio that shows strong systems thinking - designing for information-dense, technical, or enterprise products where clarity and trust matter as much as visual polish.
  • Fluency in modern interaction patterns for dashboards, tables, filters, detail views, and multi-step workflows.
  • Comfort working directly with engineers on implementation details - you understand what's cheap and what's expensive to build, and you design accordingly.
  • Strong prototyping skills (Sketch preferred, Figma or equivalent) and the judgment to know when a quick sketch is enough and when a high-fidelity prototype is needed.
  • Experience running lightweight, fast research - customer interviews, usability tests - and translating findings into design decisions without slowing the team down.
  • Comfort operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous startup environment, with the judgment to know when to move fast and when to slow down (especially given the security-critical nature of the product).
  • Willingness and desire to work onsite in San Francisco full-time.
Nice to Have
  • Background designing for developer tools, security products, infrastructure, or other technical B2B products.
  • Experience contributing to or evolving a design system.
  • Familiarity with the frontend stack we build on (React, Next.js) or enough technical fluency to collaborate closely in it.
  • Prior experience as an early design hire at a startup.
  • Experience designing AI-assisted or agentic product experiences.
Success In This Role Looks Like
  • Complex security workflows become simple, fast, and intuitive for the people who use them daily.
  • Product surfaces are polished, consistent, and easy to extend as the platform grows.
  • Design and engineering move in lockstep - new features ship without fragile or inconsistent UI.
  • Customers and internal teams trust the product to guide them to the right action, not just show them data.
What We Offer
  • The opportunity to be an early design hire with outsized ownership over product direction at a well-funded, fast-growing security startup.
  • Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
  • Work directly alongside the founding team, backed by top investors and security industry leaders.
  • A San Francisco office and a team that believes in building together, in person.


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