Product designer

The role at Watershed is for a product designer who will be responsible for creating excellent products that users love, particularly products that tame complexity with the right balance of simplicity and power. The successful candidate will have a strong eye for visual polish, be customer-obsessed and excited to spend time with users, and be an expert in some dimension of product design, visual design, or data visualization. They will also be skilled in designing for the web and excited to go deep on climate and become an expert on the economy's paths forward. The role involves designing software for businesses to understand their climate data, act on their insights, and communicate internally and externally about their progress. Examples of things that the product designer might work on include designing the first version of a tool to help users model the carbon reduction levers in their business, designing improvements to the analytics and reporting features, and cracking the challenge of how to visualize climate data in an intelligible and motivating way.

• Design excellent products that users love, particularly products that tame complexity with the right balance of simplicity and power.
• Have a strong eye for visual polish.
• Be customer-obsessed and excited to spend time with users.
• Be an expert in some dimension of product design, visual design, or data visualization. With skill and familiarity across others.
• Be skilled in designing for the web. Hands-on engineering experience is great but not necessary.
• Be excited to go deep on climate and become an expert on the economy's paths forward. Prior experience in the climate space is not necessary.
• Want to join a startup, take responsibility for the fate of the company, and move fast.
• Design the first version of a tool to help users model the carbon reduction levers in their business.
• Design improvements to the analytics and reporting features to help users go deeper in understanding their companies' historical emissions.
• Crack the challenge of how to visualize climate data in an intelligible and motivating way. Implement those visual designs and give them to our customers to share on the web and as printed artifacts.
• Talk to users to decide on upcoming product direction based on their feedback ("should we build X or Y or neither?").
• Iterate on Watershed's public brand.
• Work with the rest of the team to set overall company direction, sales goals, and hiring goals.

• Has created excellent products that users love, particularly products that tame complexity with the right balance of simplicity and power.
• Has a strong eye for visual polish.
• Is customer-obsessed and excited to spend time with users.
• Is an expert in some dimension of product design, visual design, or data visualization. With skill and familiarity across others.
• Is skilled in designing for the web. Hands-on engineering experience is great but not necessary.
• Is excited to go deep on climate and become an expert on the economy's paths forward. Prior experience in the climate space is not necessary.
• Wants to join a startup, take responsibility for the fate of the company, and move fast.