Director, Product Design

Mission Axonius is at a pivotal moment. Our platform is a powerhouse of data and technology, and we're ready to move from being "tech-centric" to "user-centric." As the Director of Product Design, you aren't here to tweak a few buttons—you're here to transform an entire experience across a complex, multi-product platform. You will build and lead a full design department, owning the end-to-end user experience across all Axonius products. You'll be the connective tissue between product lines—synthesizing a coherent, intuitive experience from a sophisticated set of capabilities. And you'll be the person who defines what great UX looks like in the AI era: not just adapting to AI features, but rethinking how users interact with intelligence-first products. Beyond the craft, you'll drive real operational change. You'll lead the adoption of AI-powered workflows—not just within the design team, but in close partnership with Engineering—finding ways to compress cycles, ship faster, and create outsized impact. You'll work directly with customers, field teams, PMs, and developers, and you'll lead cross-functional processes that connect design to the business. Minimum Qualifications • Leadership & Team Building: 4+ years leading a design team ; experience building and scaling a full design department, not just managing individuals. • Platform-Scale Thinking: Proven ability to own the UX of a complex, multi-product platform end-to-end—connecting dots across product lines and creating a coherent whole. • SaaS Expertise: Significant experience designing and shipping B2B SaaS products at scale. • Product Overhaul Experience: Demonstrated success transforming a technical, complex product into an intuitive, high-end user experience. • Stakeholder Management: Ability to advocate for design-led thinking at the executive level while collaborating effectively with Engineering, Sales, and field teams. • People Development: A track record of mentoring designers and managing career growth, not just task delivery. Preferred Qualifications • AI-Era UX: Experience designing for AI-powered products or defining UX patterns for intelligence-first experiences. • AI Workflow Leadership: Hands-on experience driving AI adoption in design and development workflows—reducing cycle times, accelerating delivery, and enabling teams to do more with less. • Cybersecurity Domain: Familiarity with cybersecurity or high-complexity data products. • Design Systems: Deep expertise building and maintaining Design Systems that scale across complex platforms. • Cross-Functional Process Leadership: Experience leading initiatives that span design, engineering, product, and go-to-market teams. • Startup Agility: Comfortable balancing craft and speed in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. Why Axonius? • Full Ownership: You'll lead a real design department—not a single team, but a function—with the mandate to define how the entire platform feels and evolves. • AI at the Center: You'll have a front-row seat to defining what AI-native product design means in enterprise security—a genuinely new design challenge. • Impact at Scale: You'll directly shape how thousands of the world's leading organizations interact with their security infrastructure. • A Strong Foundation: You're inheriting a disciplined, talented team that's ready for a leader to take them further. #LI-HYBRID #LI-AZ1 About Axonius: Axonius transforms cyber asset intelligence into actionability. With the Axonius Asset Cloud, customers preemptively tackle high-risk and hard-to-spot threat exposures, misconfigurations, and overspending. The integrated platform brings together data from every system in an organization’s IT infrastructure to optimize mission-critical risk, performance, and cost measures via