Senior Product Manager, Design Systems

Role Description

As the Senior Product Manager, Design Systems at Vanta, you'll own the product strategy and roadmap for how every team builds Vanta's interface. Your mission is to build the horizontal tooling that lets product, engineering, and design teams create consistent, high-quality user experiences faster, so they can spend more of their time on their customers. To be successful, you’ll need to have a high level of product taste and be able to set and hold the line for high quality and easy to use products, all while working closely with your engineering and design manager partners.

You'll be part of Vanta's Platform organization, which builds the foundational primitives and craft layer the rest of the product is built on. This is the first dedicated Design Systems PM role at Vanta, so you'll help shape the function itself, not just the roadmap. It's a high-autonomy, highly cross-functional role at the center of how Vanta looks, feels, and scales.

What you’ll do as a Senior Product Manager, Design Systems at Vanta:

• Own the vision and roadmap for the frontend, spanning the design system and the front-end platform, and ladder durable platform investments to company initiatives so design and engineering can focus on customers.
• Evolve our design system from a broad component library into smaller, composable building blocks with consistent APIs, including making components first-class for AI and LLM-driven experiences.
• Drive accessibility and internationalization programs to their committed milestones, including global-scale localization and meeting accessibility standards.
• Partner with our AI team to enable the agentic patterns product teams need to build the next generation of Vanta experiences.
• Run go-to-market and adoption for design-system changes, and lead ongoing quality and "paper cuts" triage as the craft team for the entire product.
• Partner closely with your engineering and design leads as a triad, continuously prioritizing the highest-impact work across a wide surface area.
• Look 12 to 18 months ahead at how the design system and front-end platform scale with Vanta, including AI-native use.

Qualifications

• Have 4-8+ years of product management experience, with real ownership of a design system, frontend platform, or developer and design experience that served many teams.
• Bring craft and taste at scale. You have a clear point of view on quality, you can scale it across many teams, and you earn craft credibility with senior design and product leaders.
• Have a builder's mindset. You're not an engineer, but you're hands-on: you spin up prototypes and demos and build with the same component building blocks that your team ships.
• Collaborate horizontally and build trust. You serve every product team as an internal platform, build consensus across the company, and you're the partner other teams are glad to see at their door.
• Think in systems. You reason about how components, tokens, patterns, and front-end infrastructure fit together and cascade across every product surface.
• Tell the story. You translate why front-end and design-system investment matters into clear business value for leadership and cross-functional partners.
• Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work, demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future employer sponsorship.

Benefits

• Industry-competitive salary and equity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
• 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
• Health & wellness stipend
• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
• Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
• Family planning benefits
• Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
• Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
• 11 company-paid holidays
• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
• Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney