--- title: 'Product Designer at Cylake, Inc' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/product-designer-cylake-inc-sunnyvale-nhrpst2aq37t' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # Product Designer at Cylake, Inc - **Company:** Cylake, Inc - **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-07-28 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cylake-inc/9308fd69-3624-4a94-9dc9-6a56697f786e ## Job description ## Your Impact Join a small team building the next generation of Cyber Security products from the ground up. Led by industry veterans with a proven track record of success - you will get to architect, build, and deliver hugely impactful products with this world class team. You will have the opportunity to grow your career and skills along with the company from the very start. ## Role Overview We're looking for a Product Designer to help shape the user experience across our cybersecurity platform. You'll work across our product portfolio, from analyst workflows to administrative controls and executive dashboards, designing experiences that make complex security capabilities feel intuitive and approachable. You'll partner closely with our design, engineering, and product teams to extend our design system, contribute reusable patterns, and raise the bar on usability and visual polish as the platform grows. The ideal candidate brings strong UX fundamentals, a sharp eye for visual design, and genuine enthusiasm for turning technical complexity into experiences that security professionals actually enjoy using. Required Experience - 5+ years of UX/UI design experience with a strong portfolio demonstrating both interaction and visual design excellence - Experience designing complex, data-heavy enterprise software for technical domains (e.g., security, developer tools, observability) - Experience contributing to and evolving design systems, component libraries, and design patterns across complex product surfaces - Ability to work autonomously in ambiguous, fast-moving startup environments and make principled design decisions with incomplete information - Regularly seeks out feedback, from users, teammates, and other stakeholders, and uses it to sharpen and reshape their work - Strong visual design skills, with attention to typography, color systems, spacing, and creating polished, professional interfaces - Comfortable prototyping in code or generative AI tools ## Preferred Qualifications - Experience designing for security products - Deep familiarity with how AI is being woven into enterprise software today, along with informed opinions about what works and why - Experience designing dashboards and visualizations that turn dense data into clear, actionable insight We offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package designed to support our employees’ health, well-being, and long-term success. The expected salary range for this position is $150,000 – $250,000 per year. Within this range, individual pay is determined based on job-related factors including skills, experience, qualifications, and internal equity. Most candidates can expect an offer within the range listed above. Your recruiter will provide additional details on compensation and benefits to qualified candidates during the hiring process. We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive workplace where everyone can do their best work. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please let us know — we’re happy to support you. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship now or in the future. ## About Cylake, Inc ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Cylake is building a complete, AI-native, data-driven cybersecurity platform for the world’s largest and most regulated institutions, designed to operate on-premises or in private cloud environments. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage – $45M raised) - **Headquarters**: Sunnyvale, California, United States - **Founded**: 2026 - **Founders**: Nir Zuk, Wilson Xu, and Ehud (Udi) Shamir ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Cybersecurity (Computer and Network Security) - **Target customers**: Large, highly regulated institutions (e.g., in finance, government, critical infrastructure) that require data and operational sovereignty. - **Mission or purpose statement**: “To support organizations and enterprises that need sovereign, complete, and transparent agentic protection against cyberattacks” and “to bring cybersecurity back home for organizations that require complete sovereignty.” ## Products & Services - **[Cylake Platform]**: A complete, AI-native, data-driven cybersecurity platform built on a single data foundation. It combines hardware and software components to deliver deep analysis and agentic protection without relying on public cloud or public AI infrastructure. Currently under development with design partners, planned for general availability in early 2027. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private) - **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$45M** (Seed round, March 2026) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: **Greylock Partners** (lead investor); founding investor Asheem Chandna (Partner at Greylock) sits on the board. - **Growth Signals**: Rapid headcount growth (+23.5% monthly in early data); team of experienced security engineers and executives from Palo Alto Networks, SentinelOne, and other leading security firms; already 5,793 LinkedIn followers with 12.8% monthly growth. ## Competitive Advantages - **Founding team**: Co-founded by Nir Zuk (former CEO/Chairman of Palo Alto Networks), along with seasoned security architects. - **Data sovereignty**: Platform operates entirely on-premises or in private cloud, avoiding reliance on public cloud infrastructure – a critical requirement for regulated industries. - **Single data lake**: All security data unified into one data store, enabling complete visibility and agentic automation. - **Strong investor backing**: $45M seed from top-tier VC Greylock Partners signals confidence and resources. ## Strategic Focus - Complete platform development (hardware + software + applied AI) with design partners. - Targeting general availability in early 2027. - Building an in-office engineering culture centered on long-term architecture, intense collaboration, and deep technical craftsmanship. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “Human intelligence first” with a focus on creative thinking, open communication, and pride in work. In-office approach at Sunnyvale HQ (525 Almanor Ave). - **Team**: Small (10 employees) but highly experienced – a chance to work alongside former executives and engineers from top security companies. - **Impact**: Early-stage opportunity to build a foundational cybersecurity platform from the ground up. - **Engineering focus**: Roles span hardware, software, data, and applied AI. Openings include Security Researcher, Endpoint Engineer, Backend Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Frontend UI Engineer, and Product Manager. - **Perks**: Not explicitly listed; note: no external recruiting agency accepts candidates. ## Sources 1. [cylake.com](https://cylake.com/about-us/) 2. [linkedin.com/company/cylake-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cylake-ai/jobs) 3. 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