[Remote] Senior Product Designer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Overstory is tackling the climate crisis by leveraging cutting-edge technology to enhance the electrical grid's resilience. They are seeking a Senior Product Designer to lead the design of their customer-facing product, collaborating closely with a dedicated team to create impactful solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end product design process of our customer-facing product including user research, wireframes, prototypes, flows, detailed design specs and QA
- Understand engineering and business constraints to create shippable solutions to users’ problems, and continuously validate the solutions with customers
- Lay out a design vision for what's possible by quickly iterating, knowing when to pay attention to detail and when to make low-fi sketches and prototypes
- Communicate and present your work clearly and frequently to teammates and company leaders
- Take full ownership of your work. That also means getting involved on how to communicate it to customers when releases happen
- Think both short- and long-term so that you can meet near-term deadlines while iterating toward a future vision
- Facilitate alignment and vision exercises (e.g. design sprints, workshops, planning)
- Occasionally meet in-person with our customers to run workshops, attend field visits and learn about how our customers are leveraging Overstory in their day-to-day operations
- Occasionally attend industry events to keep an eye on competition, and learn about how our prospects and customers are thinking about leveraging disrupting technology
Skills
- A strong portfolio featuring examples of interaction design work
- Experience working at an early-stage startup
- Demonstrated experience with end-to-end (hybrid UX and UI) product design for enterprise software
- Demonstrated experience working with cross-functional teams (product, engineering and design)
- Skilled in turning the complex into dead simple experiences that non-technical users grasp with ease
- Exceptional verbal, written and visual communication skills in a fast-paced environment
- Experience leading design sprints and building consensus around the best ideas
- Experience taking calculated risks; comfortable learning as you go, making mistakes, adhering to the notion that good/done > perfect
- A genuine passion for the urgency of solving our climate crisis
- 5+ years of product design experience
- Experience working on a B2B SaaS product
- Experience working closely with machine learning engineers and/or data scientists
- Experience designing LLMs/AI powered products and know when the technology can be used to deliver delightful experiences
- Experience working with maps/geospatial data
Benefits
- Competitive, location-specific compensation and benefits
- Flexible, autonomous and collaborative working environment rooted in trust - we build our work days around our lives, not the other way around
- Home office stipend, coworking and ongoing education budgets
- A company culture that genuinely embodies each of our core values
- To be part of truly mission-driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth’s natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis
- We gather once a year in-person for our unforgettable team gathering event
- We also offer the option to occasionally meet up for in-person collaboration
Company Overview