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UpGuard

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Location:
Australia, Sydney

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Category:
IT - Software Development

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Contract Type:
Not provided

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Salary:

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Job Description:

UpGuard’s mission is to protect the world’s data. We obsessively seek out elegant, robust ways to enable our customers to find, acknowledge, and remediate cyber risk. With UpGuard, organizations leverage our security expertise and software to automate what was once laborious, spreadsheet-driven processes–whether it's monitoring the attack surface of hundreds of vendors or assessing the security of their own infrastructure. UpGuard is used by some of the world’s largest, fastest-growing, and most innovative companies.

Job Responsibility:

  • Drive Design Vision & Strategy
  • Build & Scale a Modern Design System
  • Lead & Empower the Design Team
  • Integrate AI Into the Design Workflow
  • Cross‑Functional Leadership & Execution

Requirements:

  • Proven leadership: Multiple years leading product‑design teams (Director/Head/VP level), ideally in a high‑growth B2B software environment
  • Track record of impact: Clear examples where your leadership elevated product usability, visual quality, or speed of delivery
  • Design‑system expertise: Experience building or scaling a component library and token system in Figma (or similar)
  • AI mindset: Familiarity with generative‑AI tools and a passion for integrating them into design workflows
  • Collaboration skills: Excellent communication and influence across Product, Engineering, and Brand teams
  • User‑centred craft: Ability to pair data‑driven insights with strong product‑thinking and interaction‑design chops
  • Domain exposure: Experience in B2B SaaS is highly valued
  • cybersecurity familiarity is a bonus but not mandatory
  • Location: Must be based on Australia’s east coast (AEST/AEDT time zone) and able to work remotely or from our optional offices

Nice to have:

  • Demonstrated success introducing AI‑assisted processes that measurably improved design velocity or quality
  • Experience scaling design orgs from single‑product to multi‑product platforms
  • Contributions to open‑source or public design systems
  • Familiarity with accessibility best practices and inclusive‑design methodologies
What we offer:
  • Monthly Lifestyle subsidy: use this for financial, physical and mental wellbeing (all regions)
  • WFH set-up allowance: to ensure you have the right environment to work in, we will help you get set up within your first 3 months at UpGuard (all regions)
  • $1500 USD annual Learning & Development allowance: to support your career development all team members will be able to expense development opportunities against this allowance (all regions)
  • Generous Annual Leave/PTO allowances: time to recharge your batteries (all regions)
  • 18 weeks paid Parental Leave: irrespective of parenting role (all regions)
  • Personal Leave allowance: this includes sick & carer’s leave (all regions)
  • Fully remote working environment: whilst we have physical offices in Sydney & Hobart, we do not mandate compulsory attendance (all regions)
  • Top-spec hardware: all team members will be provided with top-spec laptops for their role (all regions)

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
August 08, 2025

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Remote work
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