Senior Product Designer

Overstory is a company tackling the climate crisis through innovative technology for a resilient electrical grid. They are seeking a Senior Product Designer to lead the design of their customer-facing product, focusing on user research, prototyping, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

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

Requirements:

• 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