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The contract for this position is a Full-time contract

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The suggested salary for this position is $152,100 - $185,900*

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Yes, telecommuting is possible for this position

Head of Product Design job at Cervest

Cervest is building the world's first open access AI-powered Climate Intelligence platform.

We’re a Certified B Corporation with a vision to build a climate intelligent world — one where everyone is able to use Climate Intelligence to adapt with climate change. By making Climate Intelligence open, democratised and transparent we will power a global Climate Intelligent Network™ that drives a chain reaction of climate intelligent decisions to protect the world’s critical assets, including our greatest asset — the planet.

Using our flagship EarthScanTM product, anyone can discover how current and future climate events such as flooding, droughts, and extreme temperatures will impact their assets. EarthScan helps our customers confidently de-risk decisions, meet financial disclosure needs and improve the resilience of the assets they own, manage or rely on.

As a company, we are a pro-diversity, highly inclusive organization, committed to bringing together people of all backgrounds and enabling them to succeed. We know that a richly diverse team will help us achieve our mission sooner.

Description

Cervest is looking for a Head of Product Design to lead our fast growing product design team. You will work alongside the build leadership team to create customer focused products.

As a community lead at Cervest you will be accountable for fostering a sense of community, setting professional standards and driving domain innovation within the Product Design Community. You will also own the strategic workforce planning activities in partnership with the People team and product leadership and ultimately be accountable for the people management and pastoral care of every member of your community.

Main responsibilities

Establishing and constantly iterating on the ways of working and best practices for Product Design
Leading a team of product designers across Cervest
Accountable for Product Design short and long term vision within the business
Accountable for design roadmaps across all product verticals
Acting as the voice of the community and sharing relevant information with the community when needed
Surfacing the views, concerns and ideas of the community to peers and senior leadership where appropriate
Provide visibility on higher-level strategic and operational goings-on to the community as appropriate
Managing and scaling Product Design team across the business
Distributing and managing work traffic across the business
Maintaining relationships with other community members and crew members
Surfacing operational and/or cultural concerns gathered through regular 1:1’s with appropriate members of the business e.g. people ops, business ops, ops etc
Contributing to strategic endeavors as needed by the business e.g. series funding
Accountable for the Design System lifecycle and scalability across the business
Fostering a culture of innovation and design excellence

Requirements

Experience influencing senior leaders within Technology Industry
Self starter mentality, with pragmatic approaches to problem solving
Strong communication skills — to clearly articulate recommendations and decisions, whether verbal or written
Comfortable providing feedback to an array of stakeholders, internal and external, in the organization.
Ability and proven track record of leading, managing and scaling teams.
A knowledge/experience in Climate, ESG or similar domains is a strong plus
Deep knowledge of Data visualization
An understanding of Data Art
Expert in best design practices
Experience working in strategic setting roles
Experience in the translation of complex scientific concepts into compelling experiences to support specified product use-cases

Benefits

As a rapidly scaling company on a mission, we are committed to ensuring that we support our team in developing in line with their aspirations and talents as well as continuing to develop our culture in line with our values.

We are a remote-first company and are hiring across Europe, the USA and beyond. We are looking for a candidate who is comfortable working in a remote setting and with a diverse team distributed across multiple time zones. This job requires minimum travel for occasional regional or global team retreats only, using more sustainable transport methods (we’ll help with that) so generally within one time zone of the UK.

25 days’ holiday a year (plus 8 UK public holidays or local equivalent)
The company closes between December 24th and January 1st, which typically gives an extra 3 days off each year (on top of your 25 days entitlement)
Remote first company culture with flexible working hours
Maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave policies
Every employee is given a plant of their choice
£1000 a year learning budget towards personal and professional development
10% of your time can be used for projects that help us meet Cervest’s mission outside your day-to-day responsibilities
£500 stipend to spend on your work from home setup (we’ll cover your laptop and peripherals such as a screen and keyboard - you will be able to choose between a Mac or PC)
Paid sick leave for physical and mental health with access to Spill
Virtual team and company activities such as pastry-making classes, mindfulness classes, coffee masterclasses and murder mysteries
£1500 loan towards a bike through the Cycle to Work Scheme (available for UK employees)

Please contact us if you have a disability and need any adjustments to be made to the application or interview process

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