Senior Product Designer (UX/NetSec)

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we're looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That's why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it's needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Description

Your Career

As a Senior Product Designer, you will play a pivotal role in crafting intuitive, powerful, cohesive, and simple product experiences for Strata Cloud Manager. You would join a team of like-minded people pushing the boundaries of enterprise applications that tackle real problems in the cybersecurity space with AI. You will use your enthusiasm to drive the design processes, craft delightful and cohesive experiences, and work with team leaders to push the creative boundaries of the platform, enabling our customers to securely operate in a digital-first world.

Your Impact

• Lead end-to-end product design for complex cybersecurity workflows platform integrations.
• Drive UX strategy in partnership with Product, Engineering, and PM leadership, ensuring design decisions align with business goals, customer needs, and platform standards.
• Translate deep user insights into highly functional interaction models, wireframes, prototypes, and polished UI designs.
• Champion consistency across the NetSec product ecosystem by contributing to and advancing our design system.
• Mentor and elevate other designers, providing thought leadership, critique, and guidance on craft, process, and strategic design thinking.
• Facilitate workshops with cross-functional teams to define user journeys, evaluate concepts, and clarify ambiguous problem spaces.
• Drive measurable outcomes through usability testing, experimentation, and user research - using data to influence product direction.
• Advocate for the customer, ensuring every design decision prioritizes clarity, security, and ease-of-use in a complex technical domain.

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Understand user-centered design methodologies, have strong empathy for the users, and are committed to be their fierce advocate
• Have an extraordinary aesthetic sense for beautiful designs and pay attention to all the details
• Maintain constant curiosity on business aspects of the products, and utilize the knowledge to distill complex needs into elegant designs
• Strong time-management skills; must be able to work in a fast-paced environment
• Understand how the north star design concepts get broken down into iterative sprints
• Have a growth mindset and willingness to fail fast and learn
• Constantly seeks feedback to improve; Focussed on solving issues,
• Possess humility and maturity; welcome candid feedback and are able to give constructive feedback as well
• Deliver with industry-standard design tools: e.g. Figma
• Have knowledge of and experience with working with UI teams using modern extended front-end web technologies
• Own a design portfolio showcasing your excellent design work
• Have a college degree in design, human computer interaction, or related fields
• Have at least 4+ years of experience

Additional Information

The Team

Our product design team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating - challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our teams don't shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before.

We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $165000 - $207000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

We're problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity's status quo. It's simple: we can't accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.