Senior Staff Product Designer (Zurich)

📋 Description

• • Join Lakera.Ai, a rapidly growing AI security company, now part of the esteemed Check Point family, and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of AI safety and security.
• • As the founding Senior Staff Product Designer in our Zurich office, you will be instrumental in establishing and defining our design practice, working at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technological landscape.
• • This unique opportunity places you directly alongside our cutting-edge ML research team, providing unparalleled access to the technical intricacies that underpin groundbreaking design solutions.
• • You will tackle novel design challenges in AI security, a field where established patterns and playbooks are still being written, requiring first-principles thinking and innovative problem-solving.
• • Your work will directly influence how businesses and organizations worldwide can safely and responsibly adopt transformative AI technologies.
• • Collaborate closely with Product Managers, engineers, ML researchers, and a global customer base to understand complex needs and translate them into intuitive and effective product experiences.
• • Design novel interfaces for critical AI security functions, including:
• • Threat detection dashboards that visualize real-time attacks on AI systems, requiring you to represent vast amounts of data and help analysts identify critical patterns and anomalies.
• • Incident response workflows that guide users through the process of investigating and mitigating AI system compromises, where the attack vectors are often subtle and conversational.
• • Configuration interfaces for AI guardrails, balancing the need for powerful, flexible security controls with user-friendliness and error prevention.
• • Translate highly complex AI and security concepts into clear, understandable language and interfaces for diverse user personas, including security architects, AI developers, and executive stakeholders.
• • Define and champion design quality and UX standards across our entire product suite, setting the benchmark for AI security design.
• • Contribute significantly to building our design team culture, fostering collaboration, and actively participating in the growth and mentorship of future design hires.
• • Embrace the dynamic environment of a startup within a large, established cybersecurity leader, leveraging the resources and stability of Check Point while maintaining Lakera's agility and innovative spirit.
• • Drive the product vision from a design perspective, ensuring that user needs and security imperatives are seamlessly integrated into the product development lifecycle.
• • You will be a key voice in strategic product discussions, advocating for user-centered design principles and ensuring the usability and effectiveness of our AI security solutions.
• • The role demands a proactive approach to identifying design opportunities and challenges, often before they are explicitly defined.
• • You will be responsible for the end-to-end design process, from initial concept and user research to high-fidelity prototyping and collaboration with engineering for implementation.
• • Contribute to the development of our design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across all product offerings.
• • Engage with customers to gather feedback, conduct user research, and validate design solutions, ensuring our products meet real-world security demands.
• • This is a chance to be a pioneer in a critical and rapidly expanding field, making a tangible impact on the responsible deployment of AI globally.
• • Your expertise will be crucial in navigating the ambiguity inherent in designing for nascent technologies and emerging threats.
• • You will have the autonomy to define your approach and the support to execute on your vision.
• • The work involves a deep dive into the nuances of AI vulnerabilities, adversarial attacks, prompt injection, and other sophisticated security challenges.
• • You will be a critical bridge between the highly technical ML research and the practical application of AI security in enterprise environments.
• • The opportunity to define the user experience for AI security products is a rare and exciting prospect, offering significant professional growth and impact.