About the position
Watershed is seeking a talented individual to join their team as a product designer. The successful candidate will be responsible for creating excellent products that users love, with a focus on designing software for businesses to understand their climate data and take action. They should have a strong eye for visual polish and be customer-obsessed, as well as an expert in product design, visual design, or data visualization. This role offers the opportunity to work on exciting projects such as designing tools for carbon reduction modeling and improving analytics and reporting features. The ideal candidate should be passionate about climate issues and eager to contribute to the success of a mission-oriented startup.
Responsibilities
- Design excellent products that users love, with a focus on simplicity and power
- Pay attention to visual polish in product design
- Spend time with users and be customer-obsessed
- Be an expert in product design, visual design, or data visualization, with familiarity in other dimensions
- Design for the web, with engineering experience being a plus
- Become an expert on climate and the economy's paths forward
- Take responsibility for the fate of the company and move fast
- Design a tool to help users model carbon reduction levers in their business
- Improve analytics and reporting features to enhance understanding of historical emissions
- Visualize climate data in an intelligible and motivating way
- Gather user feedback to determine upcoming product direction
- Iterate on Watershed's public branding and design
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work at a mission-oriented startup
- Chance to shape the culture of a growing team
- Remote work options available
- Hub offices in San Francisco, New York, and London
- Opportunity to work with team members across the US and Europe
- Chance to work on designing software for businesses to understand their climate data
- Opportunity to work on improving analytics and reporting features
- Chance to tackle the challenge of visualizing climate data in an intelligible and motivating way
- Opportunity to work on Watershed's public brand
- Chance to contribute to setting overall company direction, sales goals, and hiring goals