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Product Design Engineer
Why Zania
Every enterprise spends millions on Governance, Risk, and Compliance. It's one of the most critical - and most painful - parts of running a business. The industry has been dominated by legacy platforms with notoriously low NPS scores for decades. It's completely ripe for disruption.
Zania is building agentic AI for GRC to solve this problem. We're building intelligent agents that execute complex risk and compliance workflows with full explainability - not dashboards, not copilots, but agents that do the work. We've found exceptional product-market fit and are scaling fast.
Why join

• Dream Customers: FAANG companies, Big 4 firms, and a portfolio of the world's most notable enterprises.
• Tier 1 Backing: Series A led by NEA, with Anthropic and Menlo Ventures. $18M raised to build a generational company.
• World-Class Team: AI and security leaders from Airbnb, Microsoft, Bain, Deloitte, PwC, Brex, and Instacart.
• Pioneering Technology: Our engineers and GRC experts work at the absolute forefront of applied AI, building agentic systems that will define the future of compliance.
• Hyper-Growth: 10x ARR growth in the last year.
• Competitive Compensation & Equity.

Why this role exists
GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) is one of the most important and most broken categories in enterprise software. The tools that exist today are genuinely terrible. Low NPS. Ugly interfaces. Workflows designed around paperwork, not people. Billions of dollars flow through software that nobody enjoys using.
Zania is rebuilding this from scratch with AI agents. We're not putting a chatbot on top of a legacy product. We're rethinking what compliance and risk management looks like when the software can actually think, when it can reason, execute, and explain itself. That's a genuinely novel design problem, and nobody has solved it yet.
This role exists because we believe the best way to solve it is through someone who refuses to separate design from engineering. Not a designer who codes a little. Not an engineer with taste. Someone who is fully both, who wakes up thinking about user flows and goes to sleep debugging a React component.
What you'll actually do
You will own the end-to-end user experience of our product. Not a slice of it. All of it.
That means you're the person who figures out how a Fortune 500 CISO should feel when they open Zania. How trust gets communicated when an AI agent has just autonomously completed a vendor risk assessment. What the interface looks like when something goes wrong. How we surface complexity without creating it.
You will go from insight to working prototype faster than anyone expects. Not because we'll push you to move fast and break things, but because the tools available to exceptional builders today make it genuinely possible to compress weeks into days. And you know how to use them.
You'll work directly with our founder, sit with engineering, and put real prototypes in front of real customers. No lengthy approval chains. No design-by-committee. You make the call.
Concretely, this looks like:
Building the interface for our SOC 2 Agent, taking a process that used to take a year of painful back-and-forth and making it feel effortless and transparent.
Designing and shipping an end-to-end third-party risk management workflow that makes a traditionally manual, spreadsheet-driven process feel genuinely automated and intelligent.
Creating and owning our component library, the visual and technical foundation that every future product experience is built on.
Running design research with CISOs and Chief Risk Officers using real, interactive prototypes. Not wireframes. Not decks. Working software.
The kind of person we're looking for
You have 5+ years bridging product design and front-end engineering on complex B2B products. You're as comfortable in a codebase as you are in Figma. Honestly, you spend more time in the codebase.
You have strong opinions about what makes software feel good. You notice the things most people don't. You get genuinely frustrated by bad UX in the tools you use, and that frustration makes you better at your job.
You think AI is the most interesting design medium that has ever existed. Not because it's trendy, but because building human trust in autonomous systems is a legitimately hard and interesting problem. You want to invent new interaction patterns, not copy existing ones.
You ship fast. You know how to make that happen, and you're always finding ways to do it better.
You're comfortable with ambiguity. In fact, you prefer it. A blank canvas over a detailed spec. You do your best work when the problem isn't fully defined yet.
You can walk into a room of senior security professionals and earn their trust through the quality of what you've built.
Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Computer Science, HCI, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience bridging product design and front-end engineering, with a portfolio demonstrating end-to-end ownership of complex B2B products
• Proficiency in both design tooling (e.g., Figma) and front-end development (e.g., React, TypeScript) - comfort in a codebase is as important as visual craft
• Strong written and verbal communication skills - you will present working prototypes directly to senior enterprise security professionals and must earn credibility quickly

Compensation & benefits

• Competitive salary + equity
• Flexible PTO
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Meals and snacks in the office
• Relocation and immigration support

Zania is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.