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# Manager, Product Design at Ontic

- **Company:** Ontic
- **Location:** Noida, India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-09-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ontic/d47d7285-75bd-43cb-87e4-f06070249283

## Job description

## Who We Are

Ontic provides software that helps corporate and government security teams identify threats, assess risk, and respond faster to keep people and organizations safe. Its AI-powered Connected Intelligence Platform unifies security operations and data into a centralized system of record, enabling organizations to conduct risk assessments, protect against workplace violence, and manage threats and incidents more efficiently. Fortune 500 companies and federal agencies rely on Ontic to support security programs such as executive protection, threat intelligence, and corporate investigations. Learn more at [ontic.ai](http://ontic.ai) or follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ontic-technologies/). As Design Manager, you'll lead a team of 5–6 product designers, owning both the day-to-day coordination of design work and the people management of your team. You'll be the connective tissue between planning, execution, and individual support; and you’ll be the person your designers rely on for feedback, growth, and career development.

## What You'll Do

- Work allocation: Assign design work based on priorities, skills, and availability.
- Day-to-day operations: Keep projects moving and be the person designers go to when they're blocked.
- Engineering partnership: Be the main design counterpart for Engineering and Product leads on planning and delivery.
- Team health: Track how each designer is doing: who's thriving, who needs support and build plans to help each grow.
- Escalation point: Resolve blockers and cross-team friction.
- Design operations support: Keep shared tools and processes current and followed. Help shape the evolving role of Design at Ontic, including the working agreements between Engineering, Product, and Design.
- Process Improvement: Identify and improve processes that slow progress or contribute to team frustration.
- Evolve our use of AI: Set high standards for how our team uses AI for design work; keep pushing that standard forward as the tools change.
- Hands-on design work: While it’s not a core expectation of this role, you may pick up design work occasionally as team capacity requires.

People Management

- Career growth: Build and maintain individual growth plans for each designer, tied to clear expectations for their level.
- Performance reviews: Own the performance review cycle, including calibration, ratings, and written feedback.Ensure you are providing feedback regularly, not just during review cycles.
- 1:1s and coaching: Meet regularly with each designer to coach through blockers, skill gaps, and career questions.
- Hiring: Lead sourcing, interviewing, and hiring decisions for open roles on the team when needed.
- Team structure and capacity: Plan team capacity against roadmap needs and flag gaps to leadership.

## What You'll Bring

- 5+ years of product design experience, including 2+ years leading design teams.
- Design experience in enterprise SaaS; you understand the complexity, stakeholders, and constraints of B2B software.
- Strong technical craft across interaction design and user experience.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience managing people directly, including running 1:1s, writing performance reviews, building growth plans and having tough conversations when needed.

## Nice to Have

- Experience improving design team processes or workflows, especially using AI tools.
- Experience implementing and scaling an established design system.
- Experience working in heavily regulated, data-heavy problem spaces.
- A strong portfolio of UX Design work.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Ontic we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. Ontic prioritizes the full inclusion of qualified individuals, providing necessary accommodations for those with disabilities to perform essential job functions. If you need assistance during the application or interview process or job tasks, please contact us at recruitment@ontic.co or call (512) 572-7400

## About Ontic

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ontic provides a security management platform that unifies physical and cybersecurity data, tools, and workflows for corporate and government security teams.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Fred Burton (Co-Founder & Executive Chairman), Manish Mehta (Co-Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Security Management Software, Enterprise Security, Risk Intelligence, Threat Management
- Target customers: B2B — Fortune 500 companies, government agencies (federal, state, local), and enterprise security teams across sectors including finance, technology, travel, and energy.
- Mission or purpose statement: "To keep people safe and make organizations stronger by creating intelligent connections between humans and critical data."

## Products & Services
- **[Ontic Platform]**: A unified SaaS platform that centralizes data, automates workflows, and delivers AI-assisted insights for corporate security operations. It connects threat intelligence, incident management, investigations, and risk assessments into one operating picture.
- **[Executive Protection]**: Module for anticipating, assessing, and mitigating physical and digital threats to executives; includes protective intelligence and physical security gap analysis.
- **[Threat Intelligence]**: Module for monitoring digital threats via comprehensive open-source intelligence (OSINT), managing the full intelligence lifecycle, and integrating human-verified intelligence without switching tools.
- **[Incident Management]**: Module to connect and automate incident operations across locations and teams, cutting resolution time by up to 50%.
- **[Corporate Investigations]**: Module for researching, monitoring, and managing cases in one place with automated admin tasks and complete context.
- **[Risk & Vulnerability Assessments]**: Module for proactively identifying and remediating physical vulnerabilities through customizable assessments.
- **[Behavioral Threat Assessments]**: Module for identifying concerning behavior early and responding confidently with structured, connected threat assessments.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: **$286.6 million** in total funding across 5 rounds (Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) led the $230M Series C (2025); JMI Equity led the $40M Series B (2021); Felicis led the $12M Series A (2020); Silverton Partners led the $4.7M Seed round (2019). Partners include International SOS, AAR, and Honeywell.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **30.3% year-over-year** to 283 employees. Achieved **FedRAMP Moderate Authorization** (April 2026), enabling government agency deployments. Recognized as **2026 Frost Radar™ Risk Intelligence Solutions Growth & Innovation Leader** for the third consecutive year. Awarded **2025 Global Risk Intelligence Solutions Company of the Year** by Frost & Sullivan.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Connected Intelligence Platform**: Unifies disparate security tools and data into a single operating picture, eliminating "accidental silos" that keep security teams reactive.
- **AI-Ready Operations**: Built-in AI automation for busywork, trend analysis, and pattern recognition, making the platform future-proof as security data grows.
- **Security & Compliance**: FedRAMP Moderate Authorization and SOC 2 compliance, a critical differentiator for government and highly regulated industry clients.
- **Domain Expertise**: Over 156 decades of collective security experience among staff; 16% of U.S. employees have military or government backgrounds. Co-founder Fred Burton is a former State Department counterterrorism agent and author.
- **Proven ROI**: Client case studies cite $2M in recovery/cost avoidance, 200+ investigations managed in 6 months, and headcount expansion from 4 to 16 enabled by platform metrics.

## Strategic Focus
- **Government Expansion**: Following FedRAMP Moderate Authorization, Ontic is actively targeting U.S. federal, state, and local government agencies.
- **AI & Automation**: Continuing to embed AI across the platform to automate manual workflows, surface predictive insights, and help security teams "act with foresight."
- **Product Breadth**: Expanding modules (Executive Protection, Behavioral Threat Assessments, Risk Assessments) to serve the full spectrum of corporate security programs.
- **Global Scale**: Growing presence in India (108 employees) and exploring further international expansion, with offices in Austin, Noida (India), and remote teams.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Strong emphasis on five core values: "Do good above all," "Lead with empathy," "Raise the bar," "Walk the walk," and "Keep moving." Consistently rated a **Great Place to Work** (6x certified), **Inc. Best Workplaces Honoree** (2025), and **Fortune Best Workplaces in Texas** (2025).
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Flexible — "Your office is where you are." The company supports remote work, but new hires attend in-person onboarding at the Austin HQ (called "CORE") once a month to build community.
- **Engineering Culture**: Collaborative, non-political, and transparent. Employees highlight "helpful leadership" and a "spirit of never settle." Engineering teams in the US and India collaborate daily via Slack, Zoom, and weekly all-hands calls.
- **Growth & Learning**: "Always learning, always growing" is a stated value. The company offers opportunities to innovate and test new ideas, especially around AI and product development.
- **Notable Perks**: Comprehensive health coverage, emphasis on work-life balance, milestone celebrations, and a mission-driven environment where employees feel they are making a tangible impact on safety.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Equal opportunity employer; encourages diverse backgrounds and perspectives. Employee testimonials highlight a supportive, non-political culture.

## Sources
1. [ontic.co - Company Website](https://ontic.co/)
2. [ontic.co - About Us](https://ontic.co/company/about-us/)
3. [ontic.co - Careers](https://ontic.co/company/careers/)
4. [LinkedIn - Ontic Technologies](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ontic-technologies)
5. [Jobs.ashbyhq.com - Ontic Careers](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ontic)

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