Vanta is looking for a Staff Design Engineer, GRC to work across multiple teams and deliver exceptional, user-centric solutions. You'll sit at the intersection of design and engineering, responsible for elevating our product's look, feel, and functionality while shaping how designers and engineers collaborate to rapidly deliver experiences. This role focuses on our GRC product, which helps customers scale their compliance programs with streamlined workflows, AI assistance, and continuous control monitoring.
What You'll Do
- Build new user-facing features with beautiful and scalable UI components.
- Identify and solve complex, high-impact user experience problems, leading projects with multiple cross-functional stakeholders.
- Prototype, iterate, and ship features that delight users while meeting business goals.
- Partner closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to rapidly prototype product requirements in the web application.
- Champion quality, accessibility, and performance: Advocate for web accessibility standards and optimize front-end performance (load times, rendering, responsiveness).
- Set a high bar for code quality and UI polish, conduct design/code reviews, and guide other engineers in best practices.
- Provide design systems feedback and contribute net new components to help empower the entire company with a first-class experience.
- Advocate for and mentor other designers and engineers.
What We're Looking For
- Strong track record building and shipping user-facing software (likely 10+ years of experience in front-end or UI engineering).
- Fluent in modern web technologies (JavaScript/TypeScript, React, HTML/CSS).
- Deep knowledge of browser fundamentals and performance tuning.
- Ability to define reusable patterns and components that serve multiple product teams and will stand the test of time.
- Passion and perfectionism for great user experiences with an eye for design details.
- Strong programming skills, experience with application development, and excellent troubleshooting skills.
- Proven ability to lead cross-team initiatives and influence without authority.
- Strong communication skills enable you to articulate technical concepts and UX trade-offs to diverse stakeholders.
- Self-starter who thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
- Mentored other engineers or designers to raise the level of those around you.
Technical Stack
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- React
- HTML/CSS
Benefits & Compensation
- Industry-competitive salary and equity
- 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
- Pension contribution
- 16 weeks fully paid parental leave for all new parents
- Health & wellness stipend
- Remote workspace stipend
- Flexible work hours and location
- 21 days of PTO and 80 hours of sick leave
- 8 to 11 company paid holidays (dependent on your territory of residence)
- Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events
Work Mode
This is a remote position open to candidates in Canada.
At Vanta, we are committed to hiring diverse talent of different backgrounds and as such, it is important to us to provide an inclusive work environment for all. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender identity, age, religion, sexual orientation, veteran or disability status, or any other protected class.
