Lead Product Designer

Summary

Join Conduit Tech, a climate tech startup, as their Lead Product Designer. You will play a critical role in shaping product development, collaborating with various teams to deliver end-to-end design solutions. Responsibilities include leading design efforts for multidisciplinary teams, conducting user research, designing UI/UX, prototyping, and usability testing. You will also shape solutions to complex product decisions and articulate design rationale to stakeholders. This role requires a proven track record as a design lead, experience with tablet and web design, proficiency in design tools, and experience creating design systems. The position offers a competitive salary, remote work, and the opportunity to contribute to a mission-driven company.

Requirements

• Proven track record as a design lead, driving initiatives from concept to release
• Experience with both tablet (iOS/iPadOS) and web design
• Highly proficient with design tooling (Figma, Miro, Adobe CC, etc.)
• Experience creating and maintaining design systems
• Proven understanding of mobile, touch based, interaction patterns and design best practices
• Ability to think strategically about how design integrates into broader product and commercial conversations
• Experience designing in the presence of technical constraints and working directly with engineering organization
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis
• 3+ years of experience as a design lead
• Portfolio link
• Case study link (if different from portfolio)

Responsibilities

• Lead design efforts for multidisciplinary teams by using design to uncover and define user experience across multiple surface areas of the product
• Confront uncertainty and ambiguity to deliver solutions that empower our users and make a genuine impact
• Take a central role in visual design across the product and supporting areas, from initial concept through implementation and release
• Design solutions that help scale the product by rendering complex tasks in a way that our users find easy to learn and understand
• Clearly articulate design rationale to peers and stakeholders, while maintaining an understanding of technical constraints and business goals
• Facilitate user research interviews and workshops to surface unmet user needs and identify UX shortcomings
• Craft low and high fidelity prototypes to gain insight and feedback for working hypotheses

Preferred Qualifications

• A founder mindset: You have the mindset that your work and choices have a large impact on this company, and you are excited to produce excellent work to further Conduit’s mission and grow your equity value
• Customer-obsession: You love learning about and from Conduit’s HVAC contractor customers and you care deeply about solving the real problems faced by our customers
• The ability to learn quickly: You are willing to dive deeply into the technical domain of Residential and Light Commercial HVAC system design and sales to learn about the work, in-field demands, and pain points
• Excellent communication skills: You are adept at structuring written and verbal communication. You care about clarity of thought and team alignment
• Bias towards action: You are comfortable moving quickly and iterating quickly as we learn. You work transparently, sharing your work early and often
• A growth mindset: You are always looking to learn more and learn faster. You love receiving feedback - and sharing it with your team transparently
• Process orientation: You know that great outcomes stem from great processes. You pay attention to executing on those processes with excellence
• Empathy: You take care in your communication and behavior to contribute to a culture of compassion, low ego, and humility, even during hectic times
• Experience with the early-stage of start-ups: You have an understanding of the nature of the work at an early-stage start-up. The ups and downs of finding product-market fit do not phase you

Benefits

• Starting at $155K-$185K salary range depending on seniority
• Full time - Remote