UX Designer

Corelight is a cybersecurity startup in the network detection and response (NDR) market, based in downtown San Francisco and Columbus, OH.  Our technology helps defend some of the world's most sensitive, mission-critical organizations and gives defenders a commanding view of their environment - so they can outsmart and outlast adversaries. Corelight's unfair market advantages include our unique architecture built on open source Zeek, as well as our founding team - which includes Zeek's inventor and its key open source committers. We aim to follow in the footsteps of successful open source security companies such as Sourcefire and Tenable, and help make the world's networks safer.

In your role as part of the UX team you’ll design intuitive, clean flows and user interfaces that increase value and usability for Corelights users as we create next generation solutions that protect the largest organizations in the world. We’re on a mission, and at Corelight, you can make a big difference. Your designs will quite literally help some of the largest companies and governments protect digital assets and citizens against advanced cyber attacks. 

• Understand product specifications and user psychology and predict what might work for both
• Produce high-quality solutions through flow diagrams, storyboards with usability and high user engagement as top priorities
• Breaking down work into design iterations that deliver new design assets required for implementation each sprint
• Provide guidance on the implementation of UX research techniques and testing activities to assess user behavior
• Contribute to and help drive Corelight’s design system and liaison between UX, Product Management, and UI Engineering.   
• Perform tests on user interface elements such as , layouts, navigation, workflow completion, onboarding experience, visibility and clarity of actions.

Minimum Qualifications

• This role requires a self-starter who enjoys working in a collaborative environment that emphasizes working in small cross-functional teams with UX, product, and engineering teammates as one unit on a mission to make the world a better place
• Minimum 3 years experience in UX with at least 60% of prior UX experience focused on single page applications sold to enterprise companies
• Must have experience working in close partnership with Product Managers and UI developers on rapid delivery of early stage ideas as you make progress towards comprehensive designs
• An impressive portfolio showcasing market-leading user experience and visual design work. 
• In-depth expertise and experience using Figma
• Exceptional familiarity with industry design language and standards and design protocols.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using design to discover opportunities worth pursuing through rapid experimentation using prototypes, A/B testing, user story mapping, design sprints, and other product discovery techniques
• Some experience in user research and persona development through continuous customer interviews and usability testing and act rapidly on the information, iterating towards the optimal experience.
• Experience working in a dual-track Agile development environment where design sprints feed delivery sprints on a continuous cadence 
• Knowledge and experience in cyber security or in solving design problems where the product can distill large amounts of data into simplified, interactive experiences

A note on experience

We understand that no candidate is perfectly qualified for any job. Experience comes in different forms; many skills are transferable; and passion goes a long way. Even more important than your resume is a clear demonstration of skill, dedication, and the ability to thrive in a fluid and collaborative environment. We want you to learn new things in this role, and we encourage you to apply if your experience is close to what we’re looking for.

Diversity of background and thought makes for better problem solving and more creative thinking, which is why we're dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team.

We are proud of our culture and values - driving diversity of background and thought, low-ego results, applied curiosity and tireless service to our customers and community.  Corelight is committed to a geographically dispersed yet connected employee base with employees working from home and office locations around the world.  Fueled by an accelerating revenue stream, and investments from top-tier venture capital organizations such as Crowdstrike, Accel and Insight - we are rapidly expanding our team.  

Check us out at www.corelight.com