Principal Product Designer (Design Systems )

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 youll help shape intuitive scalable experiences for complex enterprise environments. Youll drive impact by elevating our design system into a flexible empowering platform that supports both product delivery and design excellenceend to end from concept to code.

Your Impact

About the Role

Were looking for a handson Principal Product Designer to own our NetSec design system. This critical role combines the mindset of both an architect and a gardener shaping the system to scale with quality flexibility and crossfunctional alignment. Youll ensure the system evolves to meet the highest standards of craft performance and accessibility across our platform.

What Youll Be Doing

• Own the Design System EndtoEnd: Collaborate with designers to expand the system thoughtfully and lead enablement efforts to keep the team informed and empowered to use whats new. Build and maintain foundations tokens components templates and guidelines in Figma. Partner closely with engineers to ensure consistent highquality implementation in code. Actively support visual QA filetoprod alignment and bug resolution. Stay ahead of industry best practices to ensure the system remains modern effective and scalable.

• Shape the Future: Lead the execution and roadmap for a scalable flexible design system that supports a growing ecosystem of enterprise products and users. Partner with engineers to develop and maintain a robust designtocode pipeline ensuring pixelperfect implementation endtoend.

• Product Design: Partner with product designers to define and implement new systems based on use cases and user feedback. Proactively conduct A/B testing and audits using data to inform design decisions and continuously improve the user experience.
   

• HandsOn Delivery: Build and maintain subatomic foundations Boolean components interaction patterns and page templates while defining LLM content guidelines. Ensure a unified Figma file as the source of truth for designers integrate Storybook for seamless handoff and establish clear logic for reusability and scalability.
   

• Drive Consistency & Product Quality: Ensure visual and interaction consistency across teams and products. Audit components for performance accessibility and clarityand evolve them to meet modern standards. Utilize Jira dashboards to provide visibility and accountability while proactively addressing and resolving issues. Develop a plan to reduce UX bugs upstream ensuring that issues are addressed before they reach the codebase.
   

• Centralized Repository & Integration: Establish and maintain a centralized design system library for easy access sharing and version control of design components. Work closely with design teams to ensure seamless integration of the design system into their workflows.
   

• Enablement: Guide senior designers and crossfunctional teams on systems thinking driving adoption through workshops design reviews and office hours. Champion a bottomup contribution model by creating tools workflows and ongoing support that empower teams to contribute confidently and scale the design system across the organization.
   

• Governance & Flexibility: Create operating models that allow for easy scalable contributions to the design system while maintaining highquality standards. Develop programs to scale governance processes ensuring quality signals are consistently in check. Focus on balancing consistency with flexibility with the goal of corralling creativitynot controlling itso teams can work efficiently and productively.
   

• Support Migration & Modernization: Lead initiatives to refactor legacy designs into the system. Balance business timelines with thoughtful usercentered migration plans.
   

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• 68 years of product design experience including 3 years leading design systems in complex enterprise environments. Expertise in creating and evolving systems UI libraries and tokenbased architecture using Figma and frontend frameworks.
   

• Experience empowering teams with scalable tooling contribution models and governance practices that enable efficiency without slowing progress.
   

• Systemsthinking mindset connecting design patterns to product goals workflows and constraints with a focus on scalability and practical implementation.
   

• Collaborative approach driving execution independently while mentoring others and advocating for design quality across functions.
   

• Excellent communication skills simplifying complex concepts and influencing teams to adopt and improve design systems.
   

• Datadriven using user feedback to continuously improve product design.
   

Additional Information :

The Team

If youre excited by the opportunity to shape the future of cybersecurity through design Palo Alto Networks is the place for you. We are a passionate team of designers working on cuttingedge solutions for global security challenges. Join us to make a real impact and grow in an environment that fosters innovation and collaboration.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications experience and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level the starting base salary (for nonsales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $180000 $205000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

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