Sr. Product Designer

Carbon Direct

138d • $127,000 - $171,000

About The Position

At Carbon Direct, we dedicate our scientific, software, and business expertise to empower organizations around the world to take climate action. We are a purpose-driven carbon management firm dedicated to helping organizations around the world reach their climate goals. We make carbon science accessible and actionable with our end-to-end platform. We're looking for a Senior Product Designer who thrives in ambiguity and actively shapes product direction through strategic design decisions. You'll use AI-enhanced design workflows to explore and prototype quickly, while also collaborating closely with engineering and product to deliver meaningful solutions. This role also requires proactive learning in a complex, science-driven space, where designers are expected to self-direct their understanding of concepts in order to keep pace with a fast-moving development environment and contribute meaningfully to product direction.

Requirements

• Product design experience with proven ability to drive business outcomes through design.
• Strong proficiency with AI design tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor) for both ideation and code-based prototyping.
• Deep design systems experience - Building, maintaining, and evolving systems that balance consistency with innovation.
• Strong business acumen - Ability to articulate design decisions as testable hypotheses with measurable impact.
• Remote collaboration excellence - Proven success building relationships and driving outcomes in distributed teams.
• Technical proficiency - Fluent in Figma with working knowledge of HTML/CSS and comfort learning new tools.
• Pragmatic quality approach - Knows where to invest effort for maximum impact, with disciplined testing and follow-through.
• Excellent communication skills - Can present complex concepts to diverse audiences from engineers to executives.
• Growth mindset - Actively seeks feedback, experiments continuously, and thrives in ambiguous environments.
• Passion for climate impact - Genuine interest in applying design expertise to environmental challenges.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with B2B enterprise platforms, marketplace dynamics, or climate technology.

Responsibilities

• Drive rapid experimentation using AI-enhanced workflows to build interactive prototypes and accelerate concept feedback cycles.
• Extract customer insights creatively by leveraging product feedback and internal input to inform design decisions.
• Lead design-engineering collaboration by owning and facilitating forums that advance our design system.
• Influence through demonstration by creating compelling prototypes and presentations that communicate complex functionality.
• Balance innovation with delivery by setting time boxes for exploration and knowing when to polish or test.
• Communicate strategically using asynchronous collaboration tools while strategically using overlap hours for critical stakeholder alignment.
• Ensure implementation quality by participating actively in UAT, ticket reviews, and sprint planning.
• Foster feedback culture by sharing work early and often, actively seeking input, and providing constructive critique.
• Streamline design-to-development by defining critical details like edge cases and content requirements.

Benefits

• Comprehensive nationwide medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Flexible vacation policy and ten company-wide holidays, plus annual winter break between Christmas and New Year's.
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental and family leave with no tenure requirement.
• Remote-friendly work culture with annual company-wide retreats.
• Reimbursement for your work-from-home setup and monthly work-from-home stipend.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees