About the Role
Title: Product Designer
Location: Remote
Type: Full Time
Workplace: remote
Category: Product
Job Description:
Solar power is the largest source of new energy in the world. Raptor Maps is a fast-growing, venture-backed, MIT-born climate tech startup that is building software to enable the solar energy industry to scale. We have the leading platform for remotely managed solar operations, and our mission is to make solar asset management and O&M dramatically simpler through better data, automation, and the integration of robotics. We serve tens of thousands of solar sites around the world with a dedicated and passionate team committed to having impact through work and advancing the renewable energy economy.
Our mission is groundbreaking, and we need great people to make it happen. Join us in building the digital backbone of a stronger, more scalable solar industry! ??
We’re Hiring: Product Designer
Raptor Maps is looking for a dynamic Product Designer to help design and expand products that drive the efficiency and ROI of solar farms around the world. In this role, you will provide input into overall design decisions and complete the tactical design work associated with Raptor Maps’ AI and Robotics products and features. You’ll be a member of our product and design team, working together with designers, engineers, and other cross functional stakeholders to build product solutions that address real user needs.
You are an intellectually curious design thinker with a creative eye and technical appetite who is passionate about user experience. You love thinking through complex systems and translating the wants and needs of customers into high impact product design features. In this role, you will dive right into our fast-paced, multi-faceted product team and play a vital part in scaling our user experience and design system.
What You Will Do
- Build and iterate on features that solve our users’ pain points
- Collaborate closely with other designers and product leadership to define features and contribute to the overall direction of our product
- Solicit feedback from your peers, including other product designers and teammates within your product area
- Use and evolve our design system to craft flows, sketches, and high-fidelity prototypes for features
- Partner with engineering to ensure a high-quality implementation of your designs
- Own and develop your understanding of UX best practices
- Use data analytics, consumer insights and research data to inform design decisions
- In team discussions and feedback sessions, clearly and succinctly articulate the goals and concepts behind your work
What You Will Bring
- 3+ years of relevant product design experience
- An online portfolio showcasing your work
- Ability to break down complex problems into digital experiences that solve user problems
- Experience with prototyping as a means to explore and convey design solutions
- Proven data-driven decision making skills and strong rationale for design choices
- Demonstrated ability to influence product decisions and drive customer impact
- Proficiency in Figma
- Ability to learn and communicate effectively with customers and cross-functional teams.
- An understanding of design system theory and execution; an ability to build usable, accessible, and modular designs that can scale with our platform
- Experience in applied user research such as usability testing
- Experience designing for AI and Robotics software products and features
- This is not a UI developer role, however familiarity with modern UI technologies and best practices is a bonus
- Knowledge of Accessibility standards in UI design such as Section 508
- High EQ, a collaborative spirit, and strong alignment with Raptor Maps’ core values.
- Must be primarily located in the contiguous US and authorized to work in the US.