Senior Product Designer

Summary

Join Aurora Solar's design team as a Product Designer to own the design vision for install-ready designs for residential installers. You will support the experience solar installers use to create permit-able and installable designs, ensuring accurate and compliant plan sets. This critical step enables customers to pass permit approval and progress projects to installation. You will drive the product design process from problem framing to high-quality working software, utilizing continuous discovery methods and design QA. You'll need to possess deep knowledge of user journeys and effectively communicate your rationale to the product team. Aurora offers flexible PTO, parental leave, various stipends, Energize Fridays, and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product design experience
• Proficiency in Figma, including creating interactive prototypes to test and validate designs
• Prior experience designing and launching a 0-1 product for enterprise SaaS
• Strong customer focus, with proven experience in continuous discovery methods such as user interviews, surveys, and usability testing
• Experience leading research efforts and embedding discovery into your process
• Strong portfolio showcasing your design process, problem-solving skills, and ability to translate designs into measurable business impact
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, and an ability to articulate your rationale in design concepts and decisions

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the design vision for install-ready designs at Aurora Solar, informed by relevant customer research and insights
• Uncover new insights about our customers to deeply understand their needs and build conviction in business decisions
• Drive product design process from problem framing, to solution exploration, through low-fidelity concepts, and prototypes, all the way to well-executed, high-quality working software. We strongly believe in Design QA and post-ship feedback loops
• Know when to flex your process when needed to be lean, to ship iterative improvements results that also keeps up with deployment velocity
• Inform and guide the work of engineering peers by providing clear, detailed, actionable, and organized deliverables
• Possess deep knowledge of the user journeys and jobs to be done, within your product area and relevant peripheral areas, and represent both implicit & explicit needs of our users to the rest of the product team

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in CAD, drafting, or electrical design
• Experience with tools such as Lovable, Bolt, or v0

Benefits

• Flexible PTO - Take the time when you need it
• Parental Leave - 16 weeks with 100% base salary + gradual return to work
• WFH Stipend - An initial $675 (Non-engineers) or $1000 CAD (Engineering roles)
• Coworking Stipend - C$400 / month if you prefer to be at a coworking facility near you
• Energize Fridays - Company-wide days to log off and recharge
• Connectivity Stipend - Up to C$125 / month towards internet or phone
• Learning & Development - C$970/annually to use towards professional development (You have to complete 90 days of employment to receive this stipend)
• Medical, Dental, and Vision - Aurora will cover 100% of premiums for employee-only and dependent coverage of our supplemental medical, dental, and vision plans