UX/UI Designer

 

Join our mission to create a safer cyber world by making cybersecurity training fun and accessible to everyone. No boundaries, no limitations. (More insights about Hack The Box culture). 💚 🙌 🚀

 

About the role

Hack The Box is looking for a highly driven UI/UX designer to design for a multitude of projects. You will join a diverse, talented, cross-functional team and deliver thoughtfully crafted products, interfaces, and experiences that solve real problems in the cybersecurity sector. You'll use your wide range of skills and capabilities in UX, visual design, and prototyping to build empathy with users, create and validate solutions that will make an impact on hackers' lives. If you'd like to join an ever-growing company leading the way in cybersecurity training, hit us up!

The most important must-have to be successful in this role is previous professional experience designing complex digital products (SaaS solutions) and collaboration with developers.

 

About Hack The Box

Hack The Box (HTB) is an online platform that allows its users to test, train and enhance their penetration testing skills as well as to exchange ideas and methodologies with other members of similar interests. HTB’s community consists of over 1M cybersecurity enthusiasts who use our platform to build their skills in a fun and gamified way. Apart from the community, our b2b solution is used by over 700 corporations, consulting firms, non-profit organisations, and education institutes to train their personnel on cybersecurity.

 

Responsibilities

This position is an individual contributor (IC) role that reports directly to our Senior Product Designers. In this role, your primary responsibilities will include:

• Brainstorming creative concepts with a variety of teams, developing original design concepts, executing designs based on established style guides, participating in visual design presentations, and developing design specs for production in the spirit of collaboration;
• Designing functional and beautiful user interfaces that create inspiring moments throughout the entire hacking journey - from helping hackers connect to their VPN to empowering their skills through gameplay and gamification to bring one-of-a-kind hacking experiences to life;
• Assisting in the creation and implementation of a scalable style guide and design system that facilitates rapid product development, while ensuring visual and interactive cohesion across products, platforms, and scenarios;
• Work alongside our UX research team to translate thoughtful UX into clean, on-brand, innovative UI;
• Support front end development throughout the entire design -> dev -> deployment process to bring static designs to life with pixel perfect precision;
• Collaborate with Engineers and Product to define features and functionality while working with other designers for feedback and critique;
• Work quickly and effectively on multiple projects while shipping new features, bug fixes, and small improvements in accordance with our sprint cycles;

Requirements

• 1-2 years of professional user interface design experience. Experience designing complex solutions for complete digital environments will be a huge plus;
• Experience with web and mobile design, user interaction, and an understanding of responsive design best practices across various devices;
• Excellent visual and interaction skills, with mastery of digital design and high-fidelity prototyping tools (Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.);
• You’re familiar with HTML/CSS (from a perspective of implementation feasibility);
• You’re a strong systems-thinker who can think beyond pixels and design for holistic user experiences;
• You have strong storytelling and presentation skills, able to effectively communicate your designs and intent and collaborate with engineers in a remote workplace;
• You’re data driven and research focused, disciplined in validating design assumptions with real data and user insights;
• You have excellent verbal, written, and visual communication skills; willing to provide and receive constructive feedback as a part of the creative process;

Even if you don’t have expertise in all of the qualifications listed, we value new perspectives and backgrounds and encourage you to apply. We’re committed to building a diverse company that reflects the diversity of our users. We’re committed to growth-mindset.

Benefits

Why work at Hack The Box?

• You’ll have the chance to shape the industry of cybersecurity training
• You’ll be able to grow as we grow and solve challenging problems working with people all over the world
• You'll work with an international, passionate about HTB and very talented team
• You’ll definitely have fun while working at HTB 🥳

We have also other benefits that will keep you happy:

• Private insurance
• Free lunch & snacks at the office
• 25 annual leave days
• Dedicated budget for training and professional development, participation in conferences
• State-of-the-art equipment (mac, iPhone, and mobile plan)
• Full access to the Hack The Box lab offerings; so you can learn how to hack
• Flexible working hours

Selection Process:

1. A conversation with the Talent Acquisition team to know us better and to share more info about HTB and the role
2. A bit more of a technical conversation(s) with the hiring manager to get a better understanding of your experience and achievements
3. A challenge related to the job and a conversation about the way you have approached it. This will really help us understand your skillset and have a fair selection process.
4. Offer 🎉