Staff Product Designer

About Semgrep

Semgrep, the leader in code security for builders, empowers invention without friction. Teams catch, flag, and fix real issues before they ship, powered by security that learns as they build. Semgrep secures code as it’s written and provides guardrails that pave the road for developers to move fast and stay secure. Built for builders and trusted by security, Semgrep lives where developers work, delivering fixes without breaking flow, and giving security teams visibility, control, and confidence. Semgrep gets smarter as you build, with AI that learns your context to cut false positives and prioritize reachable vulnerabilities, validated by 95% of security reviewers across 6M+ findings. Semgrep makes zero false positives a reality with AppSec teams triaging 80% fewer false positives across Code and Supply Chain, dramatically shrinking the backlog.

Founded in San Francisco and backed by Menlo Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and Sequoia Capital, Semgrep is recognized by Gartner in Application Security Testing and is trusted by leading organizations, including Vanta, Lyft, and Dropbox.

About The Role

We’re looking for a Staff Product Designer to own the end-to-end experience of Semgrep’s platform, working across product areas to define what great security tooling looks and feels like. This is a high ownership role with significant influence over both the product and how design operates within the company.

• 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. You’ll make complex security workflows feel simple and trustworthy.
• Conduct and champion user research and share the knowledge you gain about users and their workflows.
• 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.

What You’ll Do

Some example projects that you might work on include:

• Reimagine the information architecture of the Semgrep app to better match user mental models as their workflows and the technology they use evolve.
• Evolve the core workflows of our customers (triage, detection, remediation) to be intuitive, trustworthy, and AI-powered and define what “great” looks like for automated application security tooling.
• Shape and codify design system components so the broader team (and not just design) can self-serve with confidence.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product design experience working on complex digital products, ideally with exposure to developer tooling, security, or other technical enterprise products.
• Have led design on complex, cross-team initiatives with meaningful product and organizational impact.
• Comfortable working closely with engineers and understanding technical systems in depth.
• Use research, data, and customer conversations to inform decisions.
• Have the ability to balance systems thinking with attention to detail, and to iterate quickly while maintaining a high quality bar.
• Communicate clearly and bring structure to ambiguous problems.
• Have a genuine interest in making the designers around you better.
• Have a 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.

Location

San Francisco/New York based; open to exceptional remote candidates willing to be in office at least 1 week per quarter.

Compensation

Salary Range: $205,000 - $250,000 USDOur compensation package includes equity and benefits in addition to salary.

Who We Are

We bring together people from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines—from physics and philosophy to formal methods research and full-fledged corporations. We’re new parents and new grads, dog lovers and dogfooders. We get together often to bike, bake, and meet up in parks. In our interactions, we believe respect and honesty go hand in hand, and prioritize both.

Semgrep is an equal-opportunity employer seeking a diverse range of backgrounds. We value who you are — including your cultural heritage, your socioeconomic status, your age, your race, your gender, your sexual orientation, your disabilities. We value what’s vitally important to you — your family, your religion, your politics. We value what you love in this world — your music, your weekend pursuits. We believe in welcoming varied professional backgrounds, educations, and interests. If you’re exceptional in your role, believe in Semgrep’s mission, and treat Semgrep’s values as your own, you belong here.

Please Note: For US-based roles open to remote work, we are currently able to hire employees in the following states only: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.