Principal UX Designer (Cortex)

Your CareerWe're looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior Product Designer to join our team. In this role, you'll be instrumental in shaping the future of Palo Alto Networks security products, tackling complex design challenges, and mentoring junior designers. If you're a proactive problem-solver with a passion for creating exceptional user experiences and a track record of delivering impactful projects, we encourage you to apply.Your ImpactLead Design Initiatives: You'll own and deliver large, complex projects, from conception to completion. This includes leading design reviews, advocating for feature priority changes based on business context, and proactively identifying and addressing potential problems.Enhance Our Design System: You'll contribute to and enhance our common design system modules, as well as improve our UX tools and processes, considering how they impact other collaborating teams.Drive Product Quality: You'll go above and beyond to improve product quality, proactively working on initiatives like testing and process enhancements.Collaborate & Influence: You'll team up with and influence peers across different teams and organizations to solve cross-functional problems. You'll also be a UX representative for QA issues and other teams, participating in design meetings for other products and networking outside your immediate area of expertise.Mentor & Develop: You'll play a key role in mentoring and professionally developing team members at lower job levels, and may coordinate the activities of other designers.Innovate & Solve: You'll work on complex and often vague problems in the security world, requiring in-depth evaluation and creative application of methods to find solutions. You'll identify problems or opportunities and develop innovative solutions.Present & Share Knowledge: You'll utilize your excellent presentation skills, often sought out by other teams for tech talks, and share your highly respected skills and knowledge.Contribute to Hiring: You'll be actively involved in interviews to assess design candidates.