Job Description
Your Career
At Palo Alto Networks, to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. As part of our Network Security (NetSec) Platform team, you’ll help shape intuitive, scalable experiences for complex enterprise environments. You’ll drive impact by elevating our design system into a flexible, empowering platform that supports both product delivery and design excellence, end-to-end, from concept to code.
Your Impact
About the Role
This isn't a typical design role. You'll be on the front lines, defining how GenAI and design intersect at our company. We’re looking for a hybrid Senior Product Designer who is a Design Technologist living at the intersection of design and code.
You’re a collaborative builder who thrives in a fast-paced environment. You love bringing ideas to life, crafting everything from polished demos to high-fidelity components that get your team aligned and excited. You’re driven to constantly push your craft, delivering smart, scalable templates, and partnering closely with engineers to ensure high-quality, file-to-production alignment through shared tooling and languages. Success in this role means reducing dev handoff friction by driving 100% parity between Figma tokens and our production codebase and defining scalable governance models with GenAI.
To foster the collaboration this role needs, you'll join us at our Santa Clara, CA office at least three days a week as part of our hybrid in-office model.
What You’ll Be Doing
Modernize and Scale our Design System with GenAI: Design components and build custom Figma plug-ins. You will create integrations and leverage MCP (Model Context Protocol) and GenAI-native design tools (like FigmaMake, Cursor, Lovable, and Polymet) to accelerate workflows and define our future standards of excellence.
Design In-Product: Transform mundane workflows into delightful experiences. You'll deliver quality-of-life features based on customer feedback from concept to final implementation, using data and usability testing to inform design decisions.
Prototype with Intent: Go beyond static mocks. You will build functional prototyping kits using HTML/CSS/JS to test complex GenAI interactions that standard design tools can't capture.
Bridge the Gap to Production: Ensure Figma components and their code counterparts remain in sync. You’ll define Component Architecture (variants, props, and slots) and leverage Design Tokens to create a seamless workflow for both designers and developers.
Qualifications
Your Experience
What You Should Have
4+ years of Product Design Experience, with expertise in creating and evolving systems, UI libraries, and token-based architecture using Figma and front-end frameworks.
Technical Expertise: Proficiency in front-end fundamentals (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript). You are comfortable speaking the language of engineers and understanding the constraints of modern frameworks.
Accessibility: A strong understanding of WCAG guidelines to ensure our design system and product experiences are inclusive by default.
Systems-Thinking Mindset: Ability to connect design patterns to product goals, workflows, and constraints, with a focus on scalability and practical implementation.
Tooling and Governance: Experience with scalable contribution models and governance practices that enable efficiency without slowing progress.
- Collaborative and Data-driven: A track record of driving execution independently while using user feedback to continuously improve the experience.
Additional Information
The Team
If you’re excited by the opportunity to shape the future of cybersecurity through design, Palo Alto Networks is the place for you. We are a passionate team of designers working on cutting-edge solutions for global security challenges. Join us to make a real impact and grow in an environment that fosters innovation and collaboration.
Compensation Disclosure
The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $155000 - $180000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
Our Commitment
We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.
Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
