Senior User Experience Designer

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. Arista is a well-established and profitable company with over $9 billion in revenue. Arista’s award-winning platforms, ranging in Ethernet speeds up to 800G bits per second, redefine scalability, agility, and resilience.  Arista is a founding member of the Ultra Ethernet consortium. We have shipped over 20 million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system. Arista is committed to open standards, and its products are available worldwide directly and through partners.

At Arista, we value the diversity of thought and perspectives each employee brings. We believe fostering an inclusive environment where individuals from various backgrounds and experiences feel welcome is essential for driving creativity and innovation.

Our commitment to excellence has earned us several prestigious awards, such as the Great Place to Work Survey for Best Engineering Team and Best Company for Diversity, Compensation, and Work-Life Balance. At Arista, we take pride in our track record of success and strive to maintain the highest quality and performance standards in everything we do.

Who You’ll Work With

As a key member of the UX Design team for CloudVision you will be deeply integrated into the product development lifecycle, with a focus on making common workflows more accessible to new users. You will work closely with the development team, with many opportunities to define both how the product should work and what the product should do. We are looking for a passionate advocate for new and innovative ways to make CloudVision accessible; someone who is enthusiastic about well-crafted design.

What You’ll Do

• Working with the UX Design team, Engineering & Product Management to develop new design solutions
• Conducting user research and usability testing to ensure all designs meet client and user requirements
• Analyzing all research and feedback to gain user insight – and incorporate this feedback into new designs
• Assisting in the production of wireframes, low fidelity interactive prototypes, concept sketches, interaction designs and user flows
• Helping to create clean and simple user-centered designs
• Effectively presenting design ideas to geographically dispersed teams and explaining the decision process
• Providing usable design assets including style specifications for use by engineers

• Individuals interested in applying for this position must meet the following requirements.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience as a UX designer, preferably for networking/ enterprise Web applications, with a compelling portfolio that you can showcase
• Skilled in Figma, Adobe tools, Sketch , or any other
• Self-motivated individual who takes initiatives and flourish in a fast-paced iterative, and deadline-driven work environment
• Highly creative individual with a passion for user-centered design, fluency in contemporary design aesthetics, best practices, eye for details and finesse
• Ability to quickly grasp and analyze complex UX design issues and distill them into clean and simple solutions
• Good organization and communication (spoken and written English) skills
• Experience in responsive UI design for mobile-friendly web applications 
• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Design or related field
• Human Computer Interaction (HCI) degree/certification or related experience would be a big plus

Arista stands out as an engineering-centric company. Our leadership, including founders and engineering managers, are all engineers who understand sound software engineering principles and the importance of doing things right.

We hire globally into our diverse team. At Arista, engineers have complete ownership of their projects. Our management structure is flat and streamlined, and software engineering is led by those who understand it best. We prioritize the development and utilization of test automation tools.

Our engineers have access to every part of the company, providing opportunities to work across various domains. Arista is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with development offices in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, and the US. We consider all our R&D centers equal in stature.

Join us to shape the future of networking and be part of a culture that values invention, quality, respect, and fun.