Product Designer

Little Ferry, NJ, United States

Finite State partners with product security teams, the guardians of our connected world, to create transparency for their connected devices and supply chains. Our platform handles connected devices and embedded systems across all industries, including those found in enterprises, healthcare, utilities, connected vehicles, manufacturing facilities, critical infrastructure, and government entities.

We are a fast-growing series-B company with a fully distributed workforce. Led by a team of seasoned experts, we are a mission-driven team passionate about arming our customers with the actionable insights, critical vulnerability data, and remediation guidance necessary to mitigate product risk and protect the connected attack surface. We are committed to a remote first culture.

Role Summary

Finite State is looking for a Product Designer. In this role you will focus on solving customer problems with well designed products and experiences, taking solutions from ideation to production. You’ll help own new features and collaborate closely with other designers, product managers, analysts, and engineers. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with a deep understanding of user-centered design principles and a passion for solving complex problems. This role is a mid level position and reports to the VP of Product.

You must be based in and authorized to work in the US.

Research shows that women and those in underrepresented groups tend to apply only if they meet 100% of the requirements in a job description. If you think you have what it takes, but don’t check off every box - please still get in touch! We’d love to learn more about your experience and what motivates you to see if you’d be a great fit.

As a Product Designer, you will:

Collaborate with product managers, engineers, customer success managers, and other stakeholders to understand customer needs and problems, strategize, and build solutions

Conduct user research to understand user needs, behaviors, and pain points.

Analyze data and feedback to inform design decisions and improvements.

Design and refine user interfaces that are visually appealing, intuitive, and consistent with our brand.

Develop detailed interaction flows and animations to enhance user experiences.

Follow an iterative design process by incorporating feedback, launching quickly, and testing hypotheses in an agile environment

Create wireframes, prototypes, user and process flows and other artifacts to efficiently and effectively communicate design ideas to a cross-functional team

Communicate design rationale effectively and advocate for user-centered design principles.

Stay up to date on current industry and design trends and market conditions

Uphold our core values of transparency, results, accountability, customer dedication, and courage

Champion our mission to protect our connected world

What we’re looking for:

3+ years of designing B2B software products for technical users, such as dev tools or security tools

Proven experience in all phases of the design process including user research, copywriting, wireframing, prototyping, visual design, interaction design, and usability testing

User experience focused design, including creating workflows and ecosystems

An intuitive eye for customer needs beyond the obvious

Strong portfolio showcasing a range of design projects and problem-solving abilities.

Excellent attention to detail

Ability to collect and interpret both qualitative and quantitative feedback

Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Creative problem-solving skills and product thinking experience

It’s a plus if you also have:

A technical background and familiarity with modern software development practices

Experience working on products that leverage self-service and product led growth strategies

Experience designing in Figma

Knowledge of front-end development technologies, particularly React.js

Experience working in a startup environment

Experience working in a continuous delivery model.

Experience in the cyber security market, specifically in network security analytics, product security, vulnerability discovery and management, application security, and IoT security.

Success path

In 30 days you will: have gained an understanding of the product, our users, our industry, our business goals and objectives, and are ready to start contributing.

In 60 days you will: start to take on some smaller tasks of your own and contribute to feature designs, working closely with product managers and other designers, and start independent customer research.

In 90 days you will: start owning designs and fully understand our industry and our product.

About Us

Built on two decades of cybersecurity experience, our team of experts understands the hidden risks in today’s enterprise networks, where IoT vulnerabilities are quickly becoming the entry point of choice for cyber attacks.

We have a sense of duty to protect the critical infrastructure we rely on including medical devices, power grids and telecommunication networks. We were founded in 2017 in Columbus, Ohio.

Finite State has a transparent, collaborative and supportive culture - we are looking for people who have a growth mindset, are curious and innovative, and drive results. Our team is smart, but humble, hard working with lots of fun sprinkled in. Above all, our team is driven by our noble mission and we hold ourselves accountable to delivering to our customers every single day.

The Finite State platform brings visibility and control to the supply chains that create connected devices and embedded systems—all in a simple to use platform and at the scale manufacturers need to keep device production on time and on budget. After unpacking and analyzing every file, configuration, and setting in a firmware build, the platform generates a complete bill of materials for software components, identifies known and 0-day vulnerabilities, shows a contextual risk score, and provides actionable insights that product teams can use to secure their software

We are proud to be an Equal Employer Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Finite State is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.

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