Senior Product Manager, Design Systems

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. As the Senior Product Manager, Design Systems at Vanta, you'll own the product strategy and roadmap for how every team builds Vanta's interface. Your mission is to build the horizontal tooling that lets product, engineering, and design teams create consistent, high-quality user experiences faster, so they can spend more of their time on their customers. To be successful, you’ll need to have a high level of product taste and be able to set and hold the line for high quality and easy to use products. All while working closely with your engineering and design manager partners. You'll be part of Vanta's Platform organization, which builds the foundational primitives and craft layer the rest of the product is built on. This is the first dedicated Design Systems PM role at Vanta, so you'll help shape the function itself, not just the roadmap. It's a high-autonomy, highly cross-functional role at the center of how Vanta looks, feels, and scales. What you’ll do as a Senior Product Manager, Design Systems at Vanta: - Own the vision and roadmap for the frontend, spanning the design system and the front-end platform, and ladder durable platform investments to company initiatives so design and engineering can focus on customers.

• Evolve our design system from a broad component library into smaller, composable building blocks with consistent APIs, including making components first-class for AI and LLM-driven experiences.
• Drive accessibility and internationalization programs to their committed milestones, including global-scale localization and meeting accessibility standards.
• Partner with our AI team to enable the agentic patterns product teams need to build the next generation of Vanta experiences.
• Run go-to-market and adoption for design-system changes, and lead ongoing quality and "paper cuts" triage as the craft team for the entire product.
• Partner closely with your engineering and design leads as a triad, continuously prioritizing the highest-impact work across a wide surface area.
• Look 12 to 18 months ahead at how the design system and front-end platform scale with Vanta, including AI-native use.

• Bring craft and taste at scale. You have a clear point of view on quality, you can scale it across many teams, and you earn craft credibility with senior design and product leaders.
• Have a builder's mindset.

• Collaborate horizontally and build trust. You serve every product team as an internal platform, build consensus across the company, and you're the partner other teams are glad to see at their door.
• Think in systems.

• Tell the story. You translate why front-end and design-system investment matters into clear business value for leadership and cross-functional partners.
• Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work, demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future employer sponsorship.

• Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state.

• Highlight concrete examples where you built or scaled a design system, especially any AI‑related components.
• Prepare a short demo or prototype that shows your ability to translate a design concept into a reusable component.
• Emphasize collaboration stories: how you partnered with engineering and design triads to prioritize work.
• Showcase any accessibility or internationalization work; concrete outcomes resonate with interviewers.
• Research Vanta’s platform products beforehand so you can speak to how a design system could accelerate their roadmap.
• When discussing compensation, focus on total package (salary, equity, benefits) and be ready to negotiate remote‑work stipends.
• Watch for vague promises about “flexibility” that lack clear remote‑work policies; ask about expectations for core hours and communication norms.