Career Opportunity - UX/UI Designer

Background

Based in Cheshire in the United Kingdom, PortSwigger is a global leader in the cybersecurity sector. Our cutting-edge software is used by over 50,000 customers in 150 countries to help them secure their web applications. We go beyond just selling software. Our educational and research output is used by millions of people globally to learn about web security.

We first made our name with Burp Suite, the leading software for web penetration testing. We have since broadened our focus with the release of Burp Suite Enterprise Edition, which is aimed at software development teams and large organizations with extensive web assets to defend, and the Web Security Academy. Our software products include our customer-facing website, the Customer Success Platform.

We are a fun group of people from a diverse range of backgrounds, who pull together to produce amazing outcomes for our customers. We achieve this by continually investing in and supporting our people, giving them opportunities to flourish in our supportive and collaborative working environment.

We now have a hugely exciting opportunity for a world-class UX/UI Designer to join our Burp Suite Professional team. Bringing your niche expertise in desktop application design, you will work with a high-performing team to solve complex design problems.

Find out more about the team and our culture

Role details: UX/UI Designer

Timeframe: Permanent position.

Location: Knutsford, Cheshire, United Kingdom.

We are minutes from the M6, and easily commutable from Manchester, Stockport, Wilmslow, Warrington, Chester, Crewe, Macclesfield, and Northwich.

Salary: We pay excellent salaries above the normal market level, and this is always determined based on your individual skills and contribution.

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Benefits: Share options, 8% employer pension contribution.

Life assurance: 4x salary.

Income protection: full pay for first 6 months of incapacity followed by 75% of salary plus pension contribution.

Private medical insurance (Bupa).

Holidays: 25 days plus public holidays.

Working hours: Core hours are 9am to 5pm, with flexibility to start any time between 8am and 9.30am.

About you

You come from a technical background as someone who may have started their career as a developer or programmer but have taken a keen interest into all things UX. You are a UX Designer whose career demonstrates technical experience, as well as a strong portfolio of visual design and problem solving using UX methodologies and principles. You thrive in a hands-on design role in a highly collaborative flat team environment.

This means that:

You have a good understanding of technical concepts.
You are a strong visual communicator.
You are naturally organized with great time management skills.
You have the ability to adapt within fast paced agile environments.
You are humble and open to constructive feedback.
You are always looking for ways to improve your knowledge and skills .

Key responsibilities

Our designers are pivotal to the success of our product teams, working alongside highly experienced software developers and product experts. This means that you will be involved in a wide variety of activities, including:

Modernization, research and design of future generations of our product.
Working alongside the product team to define customer needs through bringing a design influence.
Designing simple, elegant, data-driven, user-centric experiences that will delight our customers.
Helping to shape the product strategy and vision, bringing your insight and expertise from a design perspective.
Extensive and thorough user research with the primary responsibility of bringing forward new findings and learning to influence design decisions.
Conducting user testing to validate all design solutions.
Producing high quality sketches, wireframes and mock-ups at various degrees of fidelity.
Collaborating closely with development teams during the prototyping and building of UI components.
Contributing to the wider design systems and practices at PortSwigger.

Essential skills

Strong technical background and knowledge - comfortable having highly technical conversations with developers and customers.
Full-stack, cross-platform design experience, from discovery to design, through to building and delivering an exceptional product.
Previous experience modernizing the design for a desktop application and understanding the challenges and opportunities that go with it.
Ability to keep the customer at the heart of everything you do. Validating your ideas with data and customer research to build products that will delight the user.
Exposure or experience with working in a cross-functional agile team solving complex user problems and evolving your design in rapid iterations to meet changing requirements.
Experience using design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Axure, XD.
Experience with moderating user testing and conducting interviews.
Experience using user story techniques.
A depth of hands-on experience with various UX methods such as empathy mapping or customer journey mapping.
Good understanding of interaction design, including common UI patterns.
Experience in creating user personas.
A healthy understanding of accessibility standards.
Proven ability to multi-task and deliver continuous, incremental value to the team.
Self-motivate with the ability to adapt quickly, forming outstanding and innovative ideas.

Desirable skills

Although not essential to the role, it would be beneficial to have some knowledge or interest in the following area:

Cybersecurity - although direct experience with Application Security is not required - you'll learn quickly!

Be well rewarded

We firmly believe in paying people what they're worth to us, not just what we can get away with or what they could earn elsewhere. We pay excellent salaries above the normal market level, and this is always determined based on your individual skills and contribution. In addition to a generous base salary, we offer share options and a comprehensive benefits package.

Why join PortSwigger?

We like to have fun (why else would we make a product called Burp?).
We are professional without being corporate.
We encourage a positive work-life balance. We work hard but keep to a normal working day. We don't do stress.
We offer a healthy, high-tech working environment. All our people work on the latest Macs, with dual monitors, sitting-standing desks, and (if they are so inclined) walking treadmills.
We are a close-knit team. We have regular team lunches, evening social events, and amazing parties twice a year.

Meet the Swiggers

We are a diverse group of people with a wide range of interests and backgrounds. What Swiggers have in common is that they all love their work and are exceptionally good at what they do.

Jess H, Journalist

Mike S, Software Developer

Mohamed H, Software Developer

Meet the Swiggers

Vacancy

UX/UI Designer

An opportunity to directly contribute to Burp Suite, by bringing your niche expertise in desktop application design to enhance our user's experience.

Background

Humans aren't resources. PortSwigger is its people; they aren't just a means to the company's ends.

Role details: UX/UI Designer

About you

Key responsibilities

Essential skills

Desirable skills

Be well rewarded

Why join PortSwigger?

Meet the Swiggers

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