Overview
Location: Remote, United States; preference given to San Francisco Bay Area candidates. Reports to: VP of Product & Design. Focus: Approximately 80 percent Product Design and 20 percent Brand & Marketing Design. Eligibility: US citizenship is required due to the role’s support of federal government projects.
About RapidFort
RapidFort is a software supply chain security platform. We help enterprises understand what’s running in their software, reduce vulnerability risk, and ship curated, near-zero-CVE container images, backed by runtime-informed analysis and automated attack surface reduction. Our users include security teams, platform engineers, developers, administrators, and enterprise leaders. We’re Series A, with $42M raised, and we’re a small, senior team moving quickly.
The Role
This is a product-first design role. You’ll own major parts of the RapidFort platform and work directly with Product and Engineering from early problem definition through shipped software. The problems are genuinely complex: thousands of vulnerabilities across images, clusters, and workloads; relationships between software artifacts; policies, permissions, and enterprise environments; and very different technical users with very different needs. About 80 percent of your time will focus on product. The other 20 percent will help keep our website, launches, sales materials, and broader brand consistent with the product, in partnership with Marketing and external specialists. You’ll start as a hands-on individual contributor and the senior design voice at RapidFort. You’ll help establish how design operates: how we frame problems, review work, collaborate with Engineering, use research and data, and decide what good looks like. As the company and design function grow, there is a clear opportunity to help build and lead the team.
What You’ll Do
Own complex product experiences: Design end-to-end workflows across the platform, from understanding risk to remediation, governance, and reporting. Redesign data-dense experiences such as vulnerability lists, image and workload inventories, cluster views, risk summaries, and operational dashboards. Make large datasets easier to navigate through strong use of tables, filters, search, comparison, hierarchy, visualization, and drill-down. Define information architecture and interaction models that allow the platform to grow coherently. Solve enterprise platform problems including roles and permissions, organizations and environments, policies, onboarding, audit, reporting, and administration. Design for security practitioners, developers, platform engineers, administrators, and executives without reducing every workflow to the same experience. Think in systems, not screens.
Work from problem to shipped product: Partner with Product and Engineering to shape problems before jumping to solutions. Challenge assumptions and requirements when there is a simpler or better way. Move quickly from rough flows and concepts to prototypes, detailed interaction design, and production-ready UI. Test ideas early. Join customer conversations, usability sessions, and product discovery. Use qualitative feedback, product analytics, and behavioral data to guide decisions. Stay involved through implementation and own the quality of what ships.
Build the design system: Evolve our components, patterns, and interaction standards across navigation, data presentation, states, feedback, and enterprise workflows. Create systems that improve consistency without slowing down a fast-moving engineering team. Help Engineering reuse patterns rather than redesigning the same interaction repeatedly. Raise the quality bar while keeping the system pragmatic.
Use AI in the design process and product: Use AI tools as a normal part of your workflow for research, exploration, prototyping, content, and iteration. Use modern prototyping and development tools to move quickly from an idea to something people can interact with. Help define how AI and agent-driven workflows should appear inside RapidFort. Develop a strong point of view on where AI genuinely improves a workflow and where traditional interaction patterns remain better. Experiment aggressively without lowering the bar for accuracy, usability, or craft.
Support brand and marketing (about 20 percent): Partner with Marketing on key website experiences, launches, and campaigns. Turn complex technical concepts into clear diagrams, visuals, and product stories. Maintain consistency across the product, website, presentations, and sales materials. Direct external agencies, contractors, or specialists when we need additional capacity.
What We’re Looking For
5 plus years of product design experience, with deep experience in complex B2B, enterprise, platform, developer, infrastructure, data, or operational products. A portfolio of shipped product work, especially complex workflows and data-dense interfaces, not only visual concepts or marketing sites. Strong systems thinking. Excellent interaction design, information architecture, UX, and visual design craft. Experience designing products where users need to understand and act on large amounts of information. Ability to simplify technically complex concepts without removing details that matter. Strong product judgment. Experience working directly and iteratively with Product Managers and Engineers. Ability to operate independently without requiring a large design organization or highly detailed requirements. Advanced Figma skills, including components, variables, design systems, responsive layouts, and prototypes. Practical, regular use of modern AI tools in your design process. Clear, direct written and verbal communication.
Especially Valuable
Cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, observability, developer tools, or developer platform experience. Container security, Kubernetes, vulnerability management, or software supply chain security experience. Experience designing RBAC, policy, governance, compliance, audit, administration, or multi-tenant systems. Experience with products that expose large, complex, or highly interconnected datasets. Shipped AI-native or agent-driven product experiences. Prototyping with tools such as Cursor, v0, Claude, ChatGPT, or similar tools. Experience mentoring designers, directing agencies, or acting as the senior design voice in a small organization. Experience using product analytics to evaluate and improve product experiences.
How We Work and Success
Strong opinions, low ego. Create momentum from ambiguity. Show work early and iterate quickly. Care about the details without losing sight of the system. Work with Engineering, not over the wall. Own outcomes, not just deliverables. First 90 days: strong understanding of the product, customers, and core workflows, shipped meaningful improvements, and established trust with Product and Engineering. Six months: the platform feels more coherent, the design system speeds up delivery, and Design is no longer a bottleneck. 12 months: complex security and infrastructure data is easier to navigate and act on, and AI is part of how we design and increasingly part of what we ship.
Compensation
RapidFort offers a total compensation package of $180,000, including base salary, performance bonus, and equity options, plus a 401(k) with company match, comprehensive health benefits, and unlimited PTO. To apply, include a portfolio link.