Director of User Experience, Purple Autonomous SOC

• Company: Sentinel One
• Position: Director of User Experience, Purple Autonomous SOC
• Location: United States - Remote

At Sentinel One, we are driven by a clear purpose: to give the advantage to those who secure our future. As AI reshapes how organizations build, operate, and innovate, the responsibility to protect them becomes more critical than ever. When you join Sentinel One, your work helps protect global enterprises, critical infrastructure, and the technologies shaping tomorrow. If you are motivated by meaningful challenges and want your impact to be real, measurable, and global, you will find purpose here.

Sentinel One is a company at the intersection of AI and security, pioneering a new operating model for cybersecurity. Our AI-native platform unifies protection across endpoint, cloud, identity, data, and AI systems to deliver autonomous detection and response with clarity and speed. By combining real-time analytics, intelligent automation, and a unified data foundation, we reduce noise, simplify complexity, and empower security teams to focus on what truly matters.

Our teams are builders, problem-solvers, and innovators committed to shaping the future of security. If you are excited to solve hard problems alongside talented, mission-driven people, we invite you to help us build a safer future for humanity.

We're looking for people who are relentlessly curious and committed to continuous learning. AI is reshaping every function across our business, and we enable every team member, regardless of role or level, to build fluency in AI tools and concepts. Those who thrive here actively seek out new solutions, experiment thoughtfully, and apply what they learn to drive better, faster, smarter outcomes.

As a Director of User Experience, Purple Autonomous SOC, you will be tasked with defining and scaling the user experience for our Purple Autonomous SOC platform, blending strategic design leadership, UX architecture, and hands-on design excellence. You will operate as a senior player/coach, shaping long-term UX vision while directly influencing high-impact product initiatives, and ensuring that complex, data-rich security products feel coherent, intuitive, and trustworthy for security teams operating in high-stakes environments.

You will be accountable for UX quality across multiple product surfaces and for building a design organization capable of operating at scale.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Define and evolve the end-to-end user experience for the Autonomous SOC, rethinking how customers interact with traditional products in a more agent-first experience.
• Establish a cohesive interaction model and information architecture that focuses on agentic actions and the areas where humans need to orchestrate them.
• Own the long-term UX vision and ensure alignment with product management on the strategy.
• Lead system-level design thinking for complex and innovative new interaction models.
• Ensure consistency, scalability, accessibility, and usability across the product ecosystem.
• Lead a high-performing product design organization, managing and mentoring senior managers, lead designers, and principal-level ICs.
• Attract, hire, and retain top design talent, and foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Threat Research, and Executive Leadership, influencing product strategy through user insights, design vision, and architectural thinking.
• Advocate for design at the leadership level, balancing user needs with technical and business constraints, and communicate design strategy, tradeoffs, and outcomes clearly to executive stakeholders.

Ideal candidates will have:

• 10 or more years of experience in Product Design or UX, with 5 or more years in senior leadership roles.
• Proven experience leading UX for complex B2B or SaaS platforms.
• Strong background in UX architecture, interaction models, and system-level design.
• Strong understanding of agentic automation and how it will impact traditional design models.
• Experience designing cybersecurity, observability, Dev Ops, or similarly complex technical products is preferred.
• Familiarity with security workflows such as alert triage, investigations, threat hunting, and incident response is preferred.
• Experience defining or evolving enterprise design systems at scale is preferred.
• Experience supporting multi-product or…