Senior Consumer Product Designer

Summary

Join Optiwatt, a company dedicated to reversing global warming through electric vehicle adoption and home electrification, as a Senior Consumer Product Designer. You will play a key role in shaping user experiences across web, mobile, email, and push notifications. Responsibilities include conducting user research, collaborating with various teams, analyzing user behavior, and iterating on designs. The ideal candidate possesses experience in consumer mobile app design, a user-centric approach, and proficiency in Figma. Optiwatt offers a competitive compensation package, including a base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits such as remote work options, healthcare, paid time off, and professional development opportunities. The company fosters a collaborative and supportive environment, encouraging growth and innovation.

Requirements

• Experienced with consumer mobile app design (1-2 years)
• User-Centric, constantly evaluating designs from the lens of a user first, and does what's needed to build empathy with those users
• Familiar with working at an early-stage, remote startup
• Able to lead design work proactively, constantly pushing the right design into the hands of users
• Working independently and prefer the fast pace and scrappy mindset, having launched 1-2 products or features from the ground up
• Data oriented. You use success metrics to evaluate design, rather than just qualitative feedback or opinions
• Holistic in your design thinking, considering user flows and experiences across all channels, including email/push/SMS and in-app
• Proficient in designing feature concepts using Figma and constructively iterating with teammates
• Able to lead and share insights from user research interviews
• Highly motivated, outcome driven, with a proven track record in product design and a desire to grow yourself within Optiwatt by pulling in work that excites you

Responsibilities

• Conduct both generative and evaluative research to understand our users and their feedback about upcoming or recent product changes
• Partner daily with product managers, engineering, and other teams to create and refine new user experiences
• Analyze user behavior using tools like Posthog to understand how designs are driving the desired outcomes for users
• Survey current and potential users on their needs to guide implementation of features, source new ideas, and evaluate product performance
• Work alongside a talented team of senior engineers who have expertise in consumer, energy, and smart device applications
• Partner with product managers to understand the business impact of experience changes shipped in recent releases
• Test creative outside-the-box ideas and iterate constantly to disrupt Optiwatt’s status quo from within and unlock deeper product value in every corner of the application
• Interface directly with marketing to communicate features to the public as the voice of our user base, ensuring that our offerings are as intuitive as possible to interested parties
• Continuously improve through feedback, as an individual, team, and organization

Preferred Qualifications

• Bonus points for being a target user
• Excited to work on any of the following; electric vehicles, smart thermostats, the electric grid, climate tech, cost savings, and consumer focused applications

Benefits

• Ability to work fully remote or hybrid (offices in Walnut Creek, SF, Boulder, and Minneapolis)
• Stock options dependent on experience and salary flexibility
• Healthcare, vision, and dental
• $1,500 improvement or mental wellness purchase match
• 401k contribution and matching
• Every other Friday off
• Unlimited paid vacation/sick leave, including a mandatory 10 days off per year
• Yearly company retreats
• Flexible work hours
• Paid career development opportunities
• Expensed home office supplies, work travel, team entertainment, etc. as necessary