Sr. UX Designer

Tigera provides Calico, a unified network security and observability platform to prevent, detect and mitigate security breaches in Kubernetes clusters. Tigera's open-source offering, Calico Open Source, is the most widely adopted container networking and security solution. 

Powering more than 100M containers across 8M+ nodes in 166 countries, Calico software is supported across all major cloud providers and Kubernetes distributions, and is used by leading companies including Discover, Chipotle, NBCUniversal, HanseMerkur, Box, Siemens Healthineers, Playtech, Royal Bank of Canada, and Bell Canada.

As our team grows, we are looking for colleagues who not only share our passion for this work and growing our company, but who will also strengthen our company values and help ensure that Tigera remains a great place to work. At our core, our focus is on our customers, who are the heroes of our story; on aiming high and staying nimble in how we get there; on continuous learning to drive our success; and on respecting, collaborating, and supporting each other on a daily basis. 

If you are looking to help make a substantial impact, and our values and products align with your vision of your career growth, we want to hear from you

Tigera is looking for a Senior UX Designer to help shape ideas into intuitive, efficient ways to manage complex data and tasks. We believe this role is a fantastic opportunity for a UX designer who wants to make an impact in a fast-evolving domain (cloud native, security, observability), and stepping into the exciting frontier of agentic AI product design.

This position is based in San Francisco Bay Area (USA) – or – Vancouver, BC (Canada) and is Hybrid.

• Collaborate closely with product management, engineering, and customer-facing teams to shape the user experience of our cloud-native security & observability platform.
• Lead end-to-end UX design: user research, persona development, workflows, information architecture, interaction design, high-fidelity mockups, prototyping, and hand-off to engineering.
• Design for trust, transparency, and control for experiences involving intelligent agents, autonomous workflows, generative AI interfaces, and human-in-the-loop systems.
• Advocate for user-centred design throughout the product lifecycle: you'll challenge assumptions, synthesise feedback from customers and internal stakeholders, and iterate quickly.
• Establish and maintain design systems, pattern libraries, and cross-product consistency to support scale and rapid growth.
• Evaluate usability, accessibility, performance and emerging UI/UX trends in cloud/security infrastructure.
• Engage our customers and users to develop detailed user personas, understand key tasks and workflows, and test design prototypes

• 6+ years of UX design experience (or equivalent) in SaaS, B2B, cloud-native infrastructure, security or observability domains.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end UX work: research → design → prototype → delivery.
• Expertise in interaction design, information architecture, prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD), and ability to translate complex workflows into clean, usable interfaces.
• Experience working with engineering teams (especially agile, distributed teams), comfortable with handoffs and iterative delivery.
• Prior experience working directly with customers to do user research and test design prototype
• Excellent communication skills: you'll translate technical problems into user-centric designs, articulate design rationale to cross-functional stakeholders, and enjoy constructive debate.
• Comfort designing for high-impact enterprise audiences: network/security engineers, DevOps, SREs, cloud-native practitioners, and CxO buyers.
• An insatiable level of curiosity and a constant learner

With offices in San Francisco, San Jose, Vancouver (Canada), Cork (Ireland), and London (England), we have a thriving team of diverse individuals from all over the world. We believe in a collaborative, flexible work environment based on respect for, and commitment from, every employee. We also offer a competitive compensation package along with full health, vision, and dental benefits. These benefits, coupled with an amazing team of individuals who believe in our mission and value openness, collaboration, and teamwork, make Tigera an awesome place to work.