Staff Product Designer

Semgrep • San Francisco, Boston, New York, Denver, CA

3d • $205,000 - $250,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Semgrep is seeking a Staff Product Designer to lead the end-to-end user experience of its platform. This role involves tackling complex technical challenges in detection, remediation, triage, and developer workflows, making them intuitive and trustworthy. The designer will have significant influence over the product and the operational aspects of design within the company. As Semgrep's design function is growing, this position offers a unique opportunity to shape how design operates and scales. The role emphasizes the use of AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor to accelerate the product development lifecycle.

Requirements

• 8+ years of product design experience working on complex digital products, ideally with exposure to developer tooling, security, or other technical enterprise products.
• Experience leading design on complex, cross-team initiatives with meaningful product and organizational impact.
• Comfortable working closely with engineers and understanding technical systems in depth.
• Ability to use research, data, and customer conversations to inform decisions.
• Ability to balance systems thinking with attention to detail, and to iterate quickly while maintaining a high quality bar.
• Clear communication skills and ability to bring structure to ambiguous problems.
• Proven track record of mentoring other designers.
• Excited about using AI tools as part of your design and prototyping workflow and already have opinions about how to use these tools well.

Nice To Haves

• Genuine interest in making the designers around you better.

Responsibilities

• Own ambiguous cross-cutting design initiatives end-to-end, from problem framing and research through shipped outcomes.
• Partner closely with PM and engineering leads to shape roadmap direction and product strategy grounded in real user needs and behaviors.
• Design whole systems, making complex security workflows feel simple and trustworthy.
• Conduct and champion user research and share the knowledge gained about users and their workflows, utilizing both qualitative and quantitative signals.
• Raise the quality bar through strong craft, clear thinking, thoughtful critique, and high standards for execution.
• Build guidance and tools that enable non-designers to make better design decisions.
• Help shape how design scales at Semgrep as the team and product grow.
• Use AI tools as a core part of how you design and build when they meaningfully improve speed or quality.

Benefits

• Equity
• Competitive, market-aligned benefits program that meets or exceeds local market standards
• Benefits offerings vary by location to reflect local requirements and norms

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed