Job Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with personalization and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office with some flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate on the industry’s best cybersecurity solutions together!

Job Description

Your Career

The UX Team is looking for a driven and outgoing UX designer. You will be working on a platform, making a significant impact through ownership, influence, and collaboration across teams. You’ll proactively drive initiatives, streamlining complex processes into elegant solutions.

You’ll work with content creators, product stakeholders, and engineers to define the best user experience for Fortune-500 companies and national security organizations.

You’ll solve complex problems by transforming multiple use cases into clear, scalable solutions while maintaining a best-in-class look and feel.

If you're passionate about creating high-quality experiences that help protect the world from hackers, we want to hear from you!

Your Impact

• Work across multiple products and teams to create elegant, seamless, consolidated customer experiences

• Solve complex problems involving multiple use cases, distilling them into clear and impactful solutions at scale.

• Ensure the platform remains aligned with industry-leading design principles

• Continuously explore new ideas to improve and delight our users - Research user needs, generate creative solutions, and advocate for innovations that push our products to the next level

• Evolve and expand our design system to keep our UX on the cutting edge - Introduce new components and patterns that become best practices adopted company-wide

• Influence strategic product direction through your deep expertise in UX design, research, and strategy - Communicate design rationale across teams with clarity and influence

• Mentor and guide more junior designers in methods for creating intuitive, engaging product experiences grounded in user needs

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 8+ years as a hands-on UX/product design lead, including experience influencing the work of other designers and stakeholders

• Strong communication, collaboration, and leadership skills to drive consensus

• Ability to think systemically and holistically about product ecosystems

• Experience working on a platform and/or with the ability to untangle complex issues and integrate multiple use cases into a streamlined solution

• Self-starter with a proactive drive to learn the cybersecurity industry, demonstrate strong business acumen, and apply product knowledge to create impactful designs.

• Strong commitment to user-centered design, advocating for the customer experience through both quantitative and qualitative data insights.

• Demonstrates a growth mindset by embracing challenges, learning from setbacks, continuously improving, and spotting opportunities for greater impact.

• Mastery of modern tools and methods for research, ideation, iteration, and prototyping

• An aesthetic sense for visual design and the details

• Brings a positive mindset, leads by example, and acts as a multiplier by inspiring and uplifting others.

Additional Information

The Team

Our product design team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating — challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our teams don’t shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before.

We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, 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.

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 $132,600/yr to $214,500/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?: Yes

Job Tags

Casual work, 3 days per week,

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