Head of Design

About the role

Semgrep is on a mission to make security accessible to developers, and design plays a critical role in that vision. We are looking for a Head of Design to lead and scale our design team while driving exceptional user experiences across our web and command-line tools. Reporting directly to the CEO, you will be responsible for ensuring Semgrep’s UX is industry-leading—on par with Stripe and Datadog—while maintaining a solid, intuitive UI.

This is a high-impact role for a hands-on design leader with a strong UX background who is deeply outcome-oriented. You will shape the product experience, work cross-functionally with product and engineering, and drive measurable improvements in usability and adoption.

Location expectations:

• Our expectation is that this role will be based in our San Francisco office, coming into the office 2 days a week.

Prior experience in a fast-paced, tech environment is helpful, but we are more interested in your product thinking and data-driven decision-making skills than your pedigree. So if this opportunity excites you but you don’t meet the exact requirements, apply anyway!

What you’ll do

Leadership & Strategy (50%)

• Lead and grow our design team (currently two designers), fostering a high-performance culture
• Define and execute a UX strategy that drives measurable improvements in product adoption and user success
• Ensure design and product remain tightly aligned by actively participating in product management team meetings
• Maintain a proactive, strategic approach—less than 10% of the team’s work should be reactive to engineering requests
• Deliver at least two major product metric improvements per quarter

Individual Contribution (50%)

• Own the UX for core product workflows, optimizing for speed, efficiency, and task success
• Conduct user research and translate insights into UX flow diagrams and low-fidelity wireframes
• Collaborate with PMs to define and measure in-product success outcomes
• Continuously iterate on UX flows based on real-world usage data
• Leverage AI and other cutting-edge tools to accelerate rapid prototyping and testing

Success in this role means delivering meaningful, measurable improvements to our product’s UX, with 80%+ of work focused on driving key outcomes.

You are ideal for this role if you have

• A deep UX background, with a bias for action—you’d ship a wireframe if it meant achieving 100% task success
• Experience at a world-class product company (e.g., Dropbox, Figma, Facebook) with a track record of delivering concrete, measurable outcomes
• Strong product thinking—you can work as seamlessly with PMs as you do with designers
• A data-driven approach to design, always optimizing for user success
• Excitement about using AI and new technologies to accelerate design and iteration

Compensation

Our compensation package includes equity and benefits in addition to salary.