Senior Product Designer

Who we are:

• Sustain.Life is a high-energy, early-stage, VC-backed Climate Tech start-up. We focus on providing ESG solutions to our customers to support their ambitions in addressing the most challenging questions of our time. Our sustainability platform specializes in B2B solutions for corporate sustainability efforts, offering innovative technology solutions and industry experience to support business targets, personal goals and a vision of a sustainable future for everybody on the planet.

• We are on a mission to create best-in-class software that changes the world, and we are looking for like-minded individuals to join us and help us grow. We are building a team that will help our users launch sustainability programs, benchmark their ESG performance, measure carbon emissions, set meaningful goals, execute reduction strategies, and ultimately share their progress with key stakeholders.

• We are a Certified B Corporation which is a private certification of for-profit companies that have met high standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency, and we were Pitch Finalists in the 2022 SXSW Social and Culture category.

• We are a fully remote workforce collaborating across US, UK, Ireland and a growing list of other countries. We have an incredible team of world-class experts, designers and technologists developing our platform, and at Sustain.Life, we take our mission seriously. In 2022, our entire carbon footprint was 522.78 tCO2e, which we offset through high-quality verified projects.  

Job Description:

We’re looking for an optimistic and talented designer to join our team. This role will create and drive our design strategy, helping us guide businesses through operating more sustainably in an intuitive new product that drives mindset shifts of business owners to a more sustainable future. The role reports to the VP, Head of Design.

The ideal candidate will draw upon creativity, problem-solving skills, and an entrepreneurial spirit with a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.

As a Senior Designer, your core responsibilities will include:

• Working with our product, design, and sustainability teams to uncover insights

• Convert insights into clearly framed problem statements

• Create and model systems: data, navigation, interactions

• Evolve and apply our design system into interfaces

• Ideate multiple perspectives into mockups & prototypes utilizing best in class tools, methods, and processes

• Collaborate with partner-stakeholders (product managers, engineers, sales, sustainability, other designers), shaping design’s focus on both design quality and the people whom we serve

• Drive usability, accessibility, responsiveness, and other properties through design execution

• Develop tools and processes for designers and engineers to engage with the design system

• Support our goal to be a global thought expert in corporate and community sustainability

• Support our company’s goals of measuring and reducing our carbon emissions, as well as other important environmental metrics like water use and waste

Who you are:

• You have a bachelor's degree, or equivalent

• You have experience working on a diverse set of complex, data intensive, digital products & services

• Demonstrate a well-rounded set of digital design skills with primary emphasis on system & interaction design and information architecture with secondary abilities in graphic/visual design and research

• Enthusiastic about design systems and supporting designers and non-designers alike in using one

• Demonstrate ability to balance specific product needs into more broadly applicable components and patterns for multiple products

• You are an advocate for design process and methods, and have experience teaching non-designers how they can make use of them and gain value from their practice for themselves

• Responsive to direction and comfortable working with multiple people from different disciplines to achieve an outcome

• You are strategic and outcome oriented and present your work based on a critical eye to the business

• You are not only proficient in relevant tools of the trade but explore tools & tooling to always be ready to switch to the next outstanding tool

• You have demonstrated skills with modern web development platforms and tools

• You use your communications and interpersonal skills to influence collaborators, as well as to clearly communicate requirements, requests, and responses

• Ability to work asynchronously across distributed time zones and travel quarterly

Bonus - experience we’d love to see:

• Startup experience. You’ve helped build new businesses from the ground up.

• A passion for sustainability – you care about climate change and want to be part of the solution.

• Comfortable working in code and partnering with Engineers in implementation.

Base Salary: $125,000 - $140,000

The base salary range represents the low and high end of the anticipated salary range for this position. The actual base salary offered for this position will depend on numerous factors including individual experience within the salary band and business objectives. Our base salary is just one component of Sustain.Life's competitive total compensation package that also includes an Employee Stock Purchase Plan as well as other region-specific health and retirement benefits. 

As an organization, one of our top priorities is to maintain the health and wellbeing for our employees and their family. To achieve this goal, we offer robust and comprehensive benefits including: 

• Medical, dental, vision, Life/AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance

• Unlimited paid time off policy

• 401k plan

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Generous parental leave policy

• Annual Learning & Development and Sustainable Goods Purchase Stipends

Interested? Great – we'd love to talk to you! Please apply directly to the role on our website including a link to your portfolio.

If you don’t check every box, don’t let that stop you. We prioritize talent, passion, and drive over what looks good on paper. If you’re on the fence, we encourage you to hit the apply button and highlight what draws you to Sustain.Life.Sustain.Life is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minority/Women/Disability/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation/Age.