Senior Consumer Product Designer

Our mission (share it!):

Optiwatt’s mission is to reverse global warming through the advancement of electric vehicle adoption and home electrification. We make home energy usage cheaper, greener, and simpler by building towards the world’s largest network of connected and intelligent electric devices to balance the electric grid. Our investors are some of the most active impact investing firms out there, and we hold ourselves accountable to each other and the future generations of this planet. Do you want to straddle the intersection of technology and purpose on our growth trajectory to 1,000,000 homes and beyond? We hope so.

Our culture (thrive in it!):

"We're a small team of genuinely ethical people driven by helping others and our planet. And we love our virtual mini-golf tournaments." - Casey

"I love the people here like a family. We work hard and our meme game is strong. It is a flat, collaborative organization, I pitch directly to the CEO and feel heard, even when it's outside my specialty." - Nina

"We love what we do, which makes it feel more like a fun weekend project than work. And after all the features have been deployed, we disc golf." - Danny

Your impact (grow it!):

As a Senior Consumer Product Designer on the Experience team, you will be directly responsible for shaping the full experience hundreds of thousands of our users see across web, mobile, email and push notifications.. We will look to you to understand our users, design experiences that help them save money on their energy bills, and market product changes to those users. You will grow the company’s consumer product from strategic insights you gather, working alongside a small team of driven software developers, product managers, and marketing gurus who are hungry to make an impact on our users and the planet. You will obsess over the details of our experience, identifying pain points and addressing our users’ heartfelt desires through creative design. You will set the bar for design quality that will drive organic growth, quality engagement, and strong user retention for many years to come. 

Here’s some exciting stuff you will be asked to do:

1. Conduct both generative and evaluative research to understand our users and their feedback about upcoming or recent product changes
2. Partner daily with product managers, engineering, and other teams to create and refine new user experiences
3. Analyze user behavior using tools like Posthog to understand how designs are driving the desired outcomes for users
4. Survey current and potential users on their needs to guide implementation of features, source new ideas, and evaluate product performance
5. Work alongside a talented team of senior engineers who have expertise in consumer, energy, and smart device applications
6. Partner with product managers to understand the business impact of experience changes shipped in recent releases
7. Test creative outside-the-box ideas and iterate constantly to disrupt Optiwatt’s status quo from within and unlock deeper product value in every corner of the application
8. Interface directly with marketing to communicate features to the public as the voice of our user base, ensuring that our offerings are as intuitive as possible to interested parties
9. Continuously improve through feedback, as an individual, team, and organization

About You

You are someone who is….

• Experienced with consumer mobile app design (1-2 years)
• User-Centric, constantly evaluating designs from the lens of a user first, and does what's needed to build empathy with those users. Bonus points for being a target user.
• Familiar with working at an early-stage, remote startup
• Able to lead design work proactively, constantly pushing the right design into the hands of users
• Working independently and prefer the fast pace and scrappy mindset, having launched 1-2 products or features from the ground up
• Data oriented. You use success metrics to evaluate design, rather than just qualitative feedback or opinions
• Excited to work on any of the following; electric vehicles, smart thermostats, the electric grid, climate tech, cost savings, and consumer focused applications
• Holistic in your design thinking, considering user flows and experiences across all channels, including email/push/SMS and in-app
• Proficient in designing feature concepts using Figma and constructively iterating with teammates
• Able to lead and share insights from user research interviews
• Highly motivated, outcome driven, with a proven track record in product design and a desire to grow yourself within Optiwatt by pulling in work that excites you

Benefits

Grow with us

We are ramping up for our Series B and have investors from the most reputable names in venture capital and impact investing: Google Ventures, Urban Innovation Fund, and Active Impact Investments. We have our sights set on the stars, so if you're interested in growth potential, the sky's the limit here at Optiwatt. 

We invest in your growth because we know that even if you aren’t with us forever, empowering you to better tackle climate change helps all of us. The best part of working in the clean technology industry is the enormous collaboration between companies, founders, investors, and yes, even utilities. Everyone is driven by the same goal: reduce global warming and move us towards a truly sustainable future.

We encourage you to step outside of your role and show us what you can do. Ask for opportunity and you will receive it, offer up ideas and you will be heard. We desire to match people with work that excites them the most, and we will support you in your journey to learn and grow towards accomplishing that goal.

If your resume doesn't quite fit these job requirements, please apply anyway and tell us where you think you could help us! Climate change and grid stability are enormous problems and we would love help from talented people with any background.

Shine with us

Optiwatt is a small startup, but don’t let that fool you. We offer competitive salaries and benefits to all employees, rivaling the giants of the tech world. This role’s compensation package includes a base salary of $120 - 160k, along with equity and benefits. Some of our amazing benefits include:

• Ability to work fully remote or hybrid (offices in Walnut Creek, SF, Boulder, and Minneapolis)
• Stock options dependent on experience and salary flexibility
• Healthcare, vision, and dental
• $1,500 improvement or mental wellness purchase match
• 401k contribution and matching
• Every other Friday off
• Unlimited paid vacation/sick leave, including a mandatory 10 days off per year
• Yearly company retreats
• Flexible work hours, and we mean it. We want you to work when you are most productive, no matter if you are a night owl, early bird, or live in a different US time zone.
• Paid career development opportunities (learn a skill!)
• Expensed home office supplies, work travel, team entertainment, etc. as necessary