Location: Remote (EMEA) · CET/CEST timezone
Hi — Im Grigory, co-founder and CTO at Secfix.
How do you feel about owning a feature from the first customer conversation to the version thats live on production — writing the spec yourself, pairing closely with engineers through the build, and overseeing your design shipped on production exactly the way you designed it? If that sounds like the right shape of the job — designer who owns, not designer who hands off — read on.
Ive spent most of my career believing the best designers arent the ones with the prettiest Figma files. Theyre the ones who can frame a problem, write a spec, sit with engineers through the build, and own that what shipped is what they designed. Our founding product designer, Ghada, has been doing exactly that since we started. The engineering team has doubled and were shipping faster than we ever have. Were hiring the second designer because theres more good work to do than one person can hold — and wed rather ship twice as much than slow down.
Over 1.78 million SMBs in Europe need to comply with security frameworks — ISO 27001, GDPR, TISAX, SOC 2 — just to sell to enterprise customers. The process is manual, painful, and takes over a year. We automated it.
Our platform integrates with a companys full tech stack — AWS, Azure AD, Jira, GitLab, GCP, and more — automatically extracts compliance evidence, and guides teams to certification in weeks instead of months. Our fastest customer certified in 4 weeks instead of the industry-standard 12+ months.
Weve raised €17M in total (€12M Series A), backed by Alstin Capital, Neosfer (Commerzbank), and Bayern Capital. Were on a profitable trajectory, growing fast, and building the team that will take us to European market leadership.
This space is not threatened by AI, its amplified by it. Compliance requires deep domain expertise combined with automation. Our new AI product (CISO AI) is just getting started, and theres a huge amount of product design work ahead: agentic workflows, intelligent evidence collection, context-aware policy generation, and more.
Compliance software has historically been built like the audit it automates — heavy, defensive, ugly. Were building something else. The customer is a real person trying to ship audit-ready evidence on a Friday afternoon. The product should respect their time, automate the boring parts, and make the rest feel calm.
Quality is the product. Most of our category competes on feature lists. We compete on craft. A clear empty state, a sync that doesnt lie, a settings page that holds together at eleven permission tiers — these are the things customers feel before they can name them. Design at Secfix is not what wraps the product. Its most of what makes it work.
We expect strong design skill, strong product thinking, and the ability to hold your own in a technical discussion. You work in a small team — usually with one or two engineers — and pair closely from the first prototype through to production. You own the project from beginning to end.
Alongside the features you ship, you do three things that make everyone else faster:
The leverage is doing all four well. Doing only one is the wrong shape.
No PMs. Designers and engineers run product. You talk to customers, frame the problem, write the spec, decide what ships.
Small temporary teams. You plus one or two engineers per project. Whoever is closest to the problem leads.
Design leads the logic, engineering tests feasibility. You bring the V1. Engineers push back on whats expensive or risky, start ahead with system design. They help spot edge cases. You adjust it fast. We get from v1 to v4 in a matter of hours or few days.
Prototype-grade, not wireframes. Real components, real states, real copy. Sometimes an LLM-built prototype before Figma. The component library stays current because the speed of design depends on it.
Handoff is the beginning, not the end. Youre in the engineering channel. You review the PR. You verify on production. Staging QA is the first gate, not the last.
In-sync culture with thoughtful comms mindset. Loom for reviews, Notion for specs, quick loops in Gather where written comms doesnt cut it, all happening in the same time zone. Teammates are reviewing things quickly. Engineers and designers spend under two hours weekly in meetings.
AI is part of the craft. We use Claude to pressure-test ideas, draft specs, surface edge cases, write test cases. Not to skip thinking.
Salary + equity based on experience. The offered compensation depends on the individuals qualifications assessed during the interview process.
We aim to invite you to a first conversation within a week and give feedback after every stage.
Order may flex depending on availability. If you make it to the exercise and dont get an offer, well tell you specifically what got in the way.
We are an equal-opportunity employer and a remote-only company. We hire within EU time zones. We work in sync using Gather as our virtual office and dont support fully asynchronous work.