Hybrid Senior/Staff Product Designer, Zurich

at Lakera

• Job title: Senior/Staff Product Designer, Zurich
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Zurich, Switzerland

About the role

• Senior Product Designer responsible for designing novel security interfaces for AI technology at Lakera. Collaborating closely with Product Managers and engineers in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

• This role sits at the strategic intersection of product, customer needs, and AI research. You'll work directly with Product Managers, engineers, our ML research team, and our global customer base.
• Design novel security interfaces: Threat detection dashboards that visualize real-time attacks on AI systems, Incident response workflows for when an AI system is compromised, Configuration interfaces for AI guardrails that must be simultaneously powerful, flexible, and error-proof.
• Translate complexity into clarity: Making AI concepts legible to security experts, security architects, and AI developers.
• Building our design team culture and helping to grow the team.

Requirements

• 4+ years designing products and UX for technical users
• A portfolio demonstrating your ability to take genuinely complex problems and create elegant, functional solutions.
• Expert proficiency in Figma and modern prototyping tools
• Deep understanding of information architecture, interaction design, and visual design, and when to prioritize each.
• First principles thinker: When there are no established patterns, you can reason from fundamentals about what users need and how systems should behave.
• Rigorous but pragmatic: You balance design excellence with technical constraints and business realities.
• Comfortable taking initiative in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment. Highly self-directed with a startup mindset.
• Strong communicator in English who thrives on cross-functional collaboration.
• Always learning: You don't need to be a security expert or ML researcher, but you're genuinely interested in understanding how these systems work.
• Valued but not required: Experience in security, AI/ML products, or developer tools.
• Background in building or scaling design systems.
• Prior experience at growth-stage or early-stage companies.
• Familiarity with using AI tools in your design process.

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development