UX/UI Designer

Xage is looking for a Senior UX/UI Designer to help define and design the next generation of enterprise security experiences. This role is ideal for a designer who thrives in complex product domains, enjoys turning technical workflows into clear user experiences, and wants to work on software that protects real-world operations.

As a Sr. UX/UI Designer, you will work closely with Product Management, Engineering, Customer Success, and Security experts to design intuitive, trustworthy, and scalable experiences across the Xage platform. You will own the UX/UI design work from discovery through delivery, including problem framing, workflow mapping, interaction design, prototyping, usability validation, and production-ready design specifications.

You will help simplify high-stakes workflows such as privileged access, secure remote access, identity-based policy, microsegmentation, approvals, session monitoring, credential management, discovery, reporting, and operational administration. The right candidate can balance enterprise-grade depth with product simplicity, and can design for both technical administrators and operational users who need secure access without unnecessary friction., * Lead end-to-end product design for major areas of the Xage platform, from early discovery through shipped product experiences.

• Translate complex cybersecurity, identity, access, and operational workflows into clear, usable, and scalable product experiences.
• Partner with Product Management, Engineering, and Customer Success teams to gain a deep understanding of user problems, product design requirements, workflow architecture, and interaction models.
• Create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, high-fidelity designs, design specifications, interaction documentation, and create mock data to enable working prototypes.
• Design experiences for enterprise administrators, security teams, vendors, and other users working in complex environments.
• Conduct or support customer research, usability testing, field discovery, and design validation with customers, prospects, internal experts, and go-to-market teams.
• Develop a deep understanding of Xage customers, including their security requirements, operational constraints, compliance needs, and day-to-day workflows.
• Hands-on collaboration with Engineering to ensure design intent is delivered with high quality, usability, accessibility, and technical feasibility. Be customer zero.
• Contribute to Xage's design system, product information architecture, interaction patterns, and UX quality standards.
• Be hands-on with customers and collaborate with the Customer Success team by joining customer meetings, collecting customer feedback, sharing usability findings, and making thoughtful design trade-off decisions that consider business priorities.
• Communicate design decisions clearly to executives, product leaders, engineers, customer-facing teams, and other stakeholders.
• Raise the bar for product craft, visual clarity, tasteful design, workflow quality, product usability, and user experience for core features across the platform.

• 5+ years of UI/UX design experience, preferably in B2B SaaS, enterprise software, cybersecurity, infrastructure, identity, IT operations, developer tools, or similarly complex technical products.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design work, including complex workflows, enterprise UX, systems thinking, and shipped product outcomes.
• Ability to simplify technically complex workflows without removing necessary enterprise control, precision, or configurability.
• Strong interaction design skills, including workflow modeling, information architecture, admin experience design, forms, tables, dashboards, policy builders, and configuration-heavy interfaces.
• Experience partnering closely with Product Managers and Engineers in an agile product development environment.
• Comfortable working with ambiguous problems, incomplete information, technical constraints, and evolving product strategy.
• Ability to understand technical concepts quickly and translate them into usable product experiences.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain design decisions in terms of user needs, product goals, business context, and technical feasibility.
• Experience using modern design and prototyping tools such as Figma.
• Strong attention to detail in layout, hierarchy, interaction states, edge cases, accessibility, and production handoff.
• Ability to work independently, drive design work forward, and proactively align stakeholders.
• Comfort working in a startup or growth-stage environment where priorities evolve quickly., * Experience designing for cybersecurity, identity and access management, privileged access management, Zero Trust, AI security, or cloud infrastructure
• Experience designing admin consoles, policy engines, workflow builders, audit/reporting experiences, security dashboards, or access review workflows.
• Familiarity with enterprise security concepts such as RBAC, least privilege, privileged accounts, MFA, session recording, credential vaulting, approvals, device access, segmentation, or compliance reporting.
• Background in or exposure to design systems and component libraries
• Familiarity with front-end development concepts (HTML/CSS/JS)
• Experience conducting generative and evaluative research independently

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between $165,000-$180,000 USD per year, * Competitive salary and equity

• Health, dental, and vision coverage
• Visa transfer and immigration support
• Opportunity to work closely with founders and executive leadership
• High-growth environment with significant market opportunity

About Xage Security Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, government, and private enterprises are at an all-time high - and only growing more urgent by the day. Xage is a global leader in zero-trust access and protection at the forefront of solving this pressing issue. We are pioneering a secure tomorrow by empowering organizations worldwide to connect anyone to anything, while delivering unparalleled defense against every cyber threat. We have built tremendous momentum across governments and commercial enterprises worldwide, and it's just the beginning. Recognized by Forbes as one of America's Best Startup Employers, Xage prioritizes creativity, collaboration, and innovation in pursuit of our mission. We are headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, and have global teams across North America and EMEA. We're passionate about solving problems that have positive, real-world consequences for everyday people's lives. We hope you'll join us in the fight against cyberattacks and in safeguarding critical infrastructure.