Remote Senior Product Designer

Summary

Join Ascend Analytics as a Senior UI/UX Designer to work on the evolution of BatterySIMM and SmartBidder products. As Senior Product Designer, you will be responsible for building a functional understanding of energy markets and renewable energy technology, researching and developing use cases and user personas, and delivering iterative visual designs for new features that empower our users to further the clean energy transition.

Requirements

• A BS or higher in Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or related field
• Self-motivated and effective in an unstructured environment
• Accepts feedback well and has a bias towards moving forward, targeting great over perfect
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to balance output fidelity with the maturity of an idea or project
• Able to analyze the product and market needs at a conceptual level ensuring that new updates improve the product experience without overcomplicating it
• Creative and willing to explore ideas from multiple angles, often stepping back to reevaluate priors and guard against anchoring bias

Responsibilities

• Deeply understand our use case and role in energy markets
• Developing documentation on user personas and jobs to be done that contextualizes this knowledge for the broader team
• Collaborate with Product to expand upon early feature definition
• Translate initial ideas into: Clarifying questions that better define requirements or challenge initial assumptions
• Multiple design ideas and directions to begin from
• Final design iterations that balance future goals with current user needs
• Processes to gather and incorporate feedback from customers and internal stakeholders
• Develop and maintain a common design language and set of core UI components that underpin a consistent experience for users across battery products at Ascend
• Attend customer calls, ask probing questions, and otherwise gather feedback from external and internal users alike to shape designs and ensure they deliver user value
• Provide clear and consistent guidance to the development team
• Proactively suggest and incorporate visual changes such as cleaner layouts, improved page density, or style updates that simplify and refine the existing experience over time
• Research other energy market tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Motivated by our mission to accelerate the adoption of clean energy across the power sector
• Mastery of Figma including its auto-layout, component , mode, and library features
• History designing SaaS products for a technical user base
• Graphic design skills to create icons, logos, and scalable vector graphics from scratch

Benefits

• Flexible work hours in a relaxed environment
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Parental leave
• Dependent care spending account
• 401k plan