Senior Product Designer (Contract or Full Time)

What We Do Matters

Dashboard.earth is a technology start-up working to drive citizen engagement in climate change adaptation. You will be joining us at an exciting and pivotal time. Our goal is to create a platform that will engage LA residents to help the city reach its climate goals -- and ultimately expand to other cities throughout the world. This is an exciting opportunity to put a novel app into the market at a tipping point in public awareness and engagement in climate. If you are looking to make a difference in that mission, keep reading! 

About The Role 

We’re looking for a foundational product designer to help our small, growing team deliver on our mission of enabling people around the world to take action in the face of climate change. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in rethinking our product experience from the ground up with a cross functional team. Reporting directly to the Head of Product, this can be a part time contract (30 hrs/week)  or full time role.  

Core Responsibilities: 

• Reimagine what Dashboard Earth can be for our customers and partners, in collaboration with our Head of Product and key stakeholders across the organization 
• Provide design leadership to our small and scrappy team
• Own design initiatives for new features and functionality, partnering closely with the product team
• Develop user flows, information architecture, wireframes, prototypes, and production-ready design deliverables.
• Help develop and refine new potential concepts, addressing core customer needs and pain points
• Perform qualitative research activities and validate design through usability testing
• Develop detailed designs once core concepts have been selected
• Work with product and engineering during the development phase to bring your designs to life.

Preferred skills and experience:

• At least 5 years working as a product designer in a fast-paced startup environment
• At least 2 years experience designing for a consumer-facing mobile app
• Highly proficient in Figma
• Experience managing designers or design contractors a plus

About you:

• Thrive amid change and uncertainty and enjoy experimentation and iteration
• Comfortable working in an agile and collaborative way with multiple stakeholders
• A strong desire to work at an early-stage startup on a small team.
• Ability to balance responsibilities on multiple project initiatives at once
• Positive attitude and solution-driven mindset
• Empathetic team player who assumes positive intentions

Dashboard.earth is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We take a holistic approach to hiring and review every application, even if you do not meet all the qualifications. If you are good at what you do and our mission speaks to you, please apply!

If you have any questions, email ops@dashboard.earth.