Finite State partners with product security teams, the guardians of our connected world, to create transparency for their connected devices and supply chains. Our platform handles connected devices and embedded systems across all industries, including those found in enterprises, healthcare, utilities, connected vehicles, manufacturing facilities, critical infrastructure, and government entities.
We are a fast-growing series-B company with a fully distributed workforce. Led by a team of seasoned experts, we are a mission-driven team passionate about arming our customers with the actionable insights, critical vulnerability data, and remediation guidance necessary to mitigate product risk and protect the connected attack surface. We are committed to a remote first culture.
We’re seeking a Staff Product Designer to own and elevate the end‑to‑end user experience across our web application, developer tools, and emerging AI‑agent interfaces. You’ll be the individual contributor design expert, partnering closely with product managers and engineers to craft intuitive and highly usable experiences for our customers and their AI agents. Your focus will span:
- Information Architecture: Ensure that users can easily find what they need and understand how to use our product and access information within it
- Data-Driven User Journey Optimization: Use analytics and user research to improve and refine customer experience
- Design Standards and Tooling: Enable our development team to accelerate their AI-driven delivery of new features and capabilities while maintaining a scalable, responsive, accessible web experience
- Lead user research efforts (interviews, contextual inquiry, usability testing) to uncover pain points and validate design hypotheses.
- Translate research insights into lightweight design documentation
- Collaborate with engineers to ensure designs are implemented accurately and performantly.
- Enhance and maintain our design system, UI component library, and style guidelines.
- Advocate for accessibility and inclusive design best practices throughout the product lifecycle.
- Be a subject matter expert on designing for AI and emerging interaction paradigms
- 8+ years of hands‑on UX design experience for complex web applications or developer platforms
- Strong domain understanding of product security and software supply chain security including binary scanning, software bill of materials (SBOM), security analysis and remediation
- Proven track record designing AI‑enhanced experiences or agentic interfaces
- Expert proficiency with rapid prototyping tools and familiarity with AI‑augmented design workflows
- Strong foundation in user research methodologies and translating findings into actionable design solutions
- Deep understanding of interaction design principles, information architecture, and visual hierarchy
- Excellent communication skills and ability to present design rationale to technical and non‑technical stakeholders
- Based in the U.S. or Canada and authorized to work without sponsorship
- Be a part of building the leading platform for connected device cybersecurity.
- Join a fast-moving team that values transparency, innovation, and impact.
- Work fully remotely with a high degree of autonomy and ownership.
- Comprehensive Benefits and competitive base salary between $150,000 to $190,000 dependent on experience
- Investment: We offer learning stipends to support your professional development
- Equity: We offer equity so you can share in our growth and success
- Help solve some of the most pressing cybersecurity challenges facing connected device manufacturers and the millions of people who depend on them
Built on two decades of cybersecurity experience, our team of experts understands the hidden risks in today’s enterprise networks, where IoT vulnerabilities are quickly becoming the entry point of choice for cyber attacks.
We have a sense of duty to protect the critical infrastructure we rely on including medical devices, power grids and telecommunication networks. We were founded in 2017 in Columbus, Ohio.
Finite State has a transparent, collaborative and supportive culture - we are looking for people who have a growth mindset, are curious and innovative, and drive results. Our team is smart, but humble, hard working with lots of fun sprinkled in. Above all, our team is driven by our noble mission and we hold ourselves accountable to delivering to our customers every single day.
The Finite State platform brings visibility and control to the supply chains that create connected devices and embedded systems—all in a simple to use platform and at the scale manufacturers need to keep device production on time and on budget. After unpacking and analyzing every file, configuration, and setting in a firmware build, the platform generates a complete bill of materials for software components, identifies known and 0-day vulnerabilities, shows a contextual risk score, and provides actionable insights that product teams can use to secure their software
We are proud to be an Equal Employer Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Finite State is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.
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