SR UX Designer Researcher at Tenable, Inc.

Your Role:

Are you excited about product design? Are you passionate about user interaction design and simple beautiful user experience? Do you like doing User Research, talking to customers and making improvement suggestions based on feedback? Tenable is looking for a Senior UX Designer/Researcher to contribute to a team chartered with creating the next generation of security products while at the same time pioneering unprecedented user experience in the digital security space. Our goal is to reset the UX bar, redefine expectations and bring world-class usability to cyber security in a way that ensures our products are easy to learn, use and manage. This role will have the ability to be both a researcher and a designer seeing the research findings become reality in the design and implementation. 

Your Opportunity:

• Be a team player - Collaborate between multiple cross-functional teams to solve complex interaction problems, humanize product ideas and develop these ideas into elegantly designed solutions

• Be a strong critical thinker – You will collaboratively distill complex, large-scale and high-volumes of data into unique and stunning, yet highly-usable visualizations/data management paradigms

• Collaborate on design - You have experience in visual design, interaction design and information architecture and will use those skills to turn research into wireframes, prototypes and high-fidelity assets

• Be an advocate for the user/customer – By understanding the way our customers behave, you’ll base design solutions on real user problems and support your designs with logic and confidence

• Recruit, Run, Analyze user research on your own products and assist the other designers in running their research projects as well. 

• Help develop a User Centered Design Process and implement it across the portfolio.

• Communicate broadly - Present design solutions to the team, defend design decisions, and incorporate feedback into the design cycle

• Be Agile – We operate in an Agile environment and in it, you’ll drive usability initiatives to improve overall user experiences

• Emphasize organization and transparency – Organize your work so that it can be easily accessed and understood by others on the team

• Make our products look great! - Design experiences that are beautiful to look at and natural to use

• May perform other duties and responsibilities that management may deem necessary from time to time.

What You'll Need:

• BS/MS in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, or equivalent experience

• Expert knowledge of both user experience, user research, and user interface design

• 3+ years of professional experience as a UX designer

• Experience in UX research working with internal or external stakeholders. This includes research planning, execution, analysis and recommendation generation.

• Successfully developed wireframes/mockups that were used to launch a product/feature

• Mastery with tools like Figma, Axure, Invision, Sketch, Principle and similar

• Ability to work effectively within a cross-functional and multi-cultural team environment

• Strong communication skills and a positive attitude

• A strong portfolio that showcases your work, provides detail of your role on projects and shows examples of functional designs that you have developed from requirements through design delivery

• Familiar with current UX best practices and trends

• Ability to sit and work at a computer for extended periods of time

• Some travel may be required

• Able to work in a hybrid/onsite at HQ in Columbia MD, Boston or the Bay Area

And Ideally:

• Experience in the security domain

• Interaction design experience 

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