Sr Product Designer-Platform (NetSec)

Company 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.

Who We Are

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Description

Your Career

At Palo Alto Networks, to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. As part of our Network Security (NetSec) Platform team, you’ll help shape intuitive, scalable experiences for complex enterprise environments. You’ll drive impact by elevating our design system into a flexible, empowering platform that supports both product delivery and design excellence, end-to-end, from concept to code.

Your Impact

About the Role
This isn't a typical design role. You'll be on the front lines, defining how GenAI and design intersect at our company. We’re looking for a hybrid Senior Product Designer who is a Design Technologist living at the intersection of design and code.

You’re a collaborative builder who thrives in a fast-paced environment. You love bringing ideas to life, crafting everything from polished demos to high-fidelity components that get your team aligned and excited. You’re driven to constantly push your craft, delivering smart, scalable templates, and partnering closely with engineers to ensure high-quality, file-to-production alignment through shared tooling and languages. Success in this role means reducing dev handoff friction by driving 100% parity between Figma tokens and our production codebase and defining scalable governance models with GenAI.

To foster the collaboration this role needs, you'll join us at our Santa Clara, CA office at least three days a week as part of our hybrid in-office model.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Modernize and Scale our Design System with GenAI: Design components and build custom Figma plug-ins. You will create integrations and leverage MCP (Model Context Protocol) and GenAI-native design tools (like FigmaMake, Cursor, Lovable, and Polymet) to accelerate workflows and define our future standards of excellence.
   

• Design In-Product: Transform mundane workflows into delightful experiences. You'll deliver quality-of-life features based on customer feedback from concept to final implementation, using data and usability testing to inform design decisions.
   

• Prototype with Intent: Go beyond static mocks. You will build functional prototyping kits using HTML/CSS/JS to test complex GenAI interactions that standard design tools can't capture.
   

• Bridge the Gap to Production: Ensure Figma components and their code counterparts remain in sync. You’ll define Component Architecture (variants, props, and slots) and leverage Design Tokens to create a seamless workflow for both designers and developers.

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• What You Should Have

• 4+ years of Product Design Experience, with expertise in creating and evolving systems, UI libraries, and token-based architecture using Figma and front-end frameworks.
   

• Technical Expertise: Proficiency in front-end fundamentals (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript). You are comfortable speaking the language of engineers and understanding the constraints of modern frameworks.
   

• Accessibility: A strong understanding of WCAG guidelines to ensure our design system and product experiences are inclusive by default.
   

• Systems-Thinking Mindset: Ability to connect design patterns to product goals, workflows, and constraints, with a focus on scalability and practical implementation.
   

• Tooling and Governance: Experience with scalable contribution models and governance practices that enable efficiency without slowing progress.
   

• Collaborative and Data-driven: A track record of driving execution independently while using user feedback to continuously improve the experience.

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