UX Designer, Security Observability & Risk Management

Role Summary

Senior product designer responsible for the dashboard UX. Translates SOC and executive priorities into wallboard, analyst, and leadership dashboard designs. Owns the Figma prototype deliverable, the dashboard capability mapping, and the visual design system. Partners with the SOC SME to ground every screen in real analyst workflow, and with the Data Engineer to validate that every metric on screen has a data source behind it.

Key Responsibilities

·       Participate in stakeholder workshops during discovery to capture SOC, analyst, and executive viewing patterns

·       Define the dashboard system: wallboards, analyst dashboards, executive views; consistent grid, type, color, and motion language

·       Design SOC wallboards optimized for ambient operational visibility (multi monitor, glanceable, color forward)

·       Design analyst dashboards for triage, investigation, and workload management

·       Design executive dashboards for leadership reporting and risk posture

·       Build Figma prototypes for the priority dashboard categories: fusion kill chain, threat detection, incident overview and case management, analyst workload, automation and remediation, DLP, threat intelligence, money movement, executive travel, fraud, vulnerability and patch, insider threat

·       Author the dashboard capability mapping that ties screens to CTOC views and to data sources

·       Run validation sessions with SOC analysts and CTOC leadership; iterate based on feedback

Required Skills and Experience

·     15+ years of experience,  8+ years in product or enterprise UX design with 3+ years on operational, analytics, or monitoring dashboards

·       Strong Figma craft: components, variants, auto layout, tokens, prototyping

·       Track record designing for high information density: SOC, NOC, trading floor, command and control, observability

·       Working understanding of dashboard heuristics: pre attentive attributes, glanceability, alert hierarchy, color for severity

·       Strong communicator; able to defend design decisions with senior security leadership

·       Comfortable working alongside data engineers to constrain designs to feasible data and refresh rates

Nice to Have

·       Prior SOC or CTOC dashboard design at a Tier 1 US bank or critical infrastructure operator

·       Familiarity with Splunk, Sentinel, Chronicle, Grafana, Kibana visual conventions

·       Accessibility fluency: WCAG, color blind safe palettes for severity coding