Lead Product Designer, AI for the Planet

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• We're looking for a designer with exceptional fundamentals and a very keen eye. Someone with deep experience shipping complex, data-heavy software products, who can look at a hard problem and draw on well-established patterns to get us to a strong design quickly. Much of what we're building has no precedent to borrow from, so you'll need to invent: distilling complicated research ideas into clear, intuitive experiences from scratch. Your process is grounded in research and evidence; you balance what users need, what the mission demands, and what's realistic to build. You reflect thoughtfully on how we work and are comfortable pushing for change.
• 8+ years of professional product design experience in industry, focused on web applications and software products. You've worked side by side with product and engineering teams and shipped real products to real users. Bachelor's degree.
• Exceptional design fundamentals. You have a deep command of usability, user research, interaction design, information architecture, visual design, and design systems. You can articulate why a design works, not just that it does.
• Experience designing data-intensive applications: dense tables, charts, filtering and query interfaces, dashboards, monitoring and alerting, or analysis tools where users are making decisions from what they see on screen.
• A track record of taking products end to end. Framing the problem, running user research, exploring options, driving to a decision, seeing it shipped to external users, and continuing to refine it based on how people actually use it.
• You're using modern AI tooling (e.g., Claude Code, agentic workflows) to move faster and rethink how design gets done. Our product managers and designers regularly build working prototypes and submit PRs.
• You build the design foundation for the team. Systems, patterns, components, and tooling that help the whole team design and build faster together. You bring in new ideas and techniques, and you look for ways to strengthen the whole team’s craft, not just your own work.
• You learn new domains fast. Everything we build sits on top of ML, whether that's an analyst acting on vessel detections or a technical team training models and building agents on our platform. You'll need to get fluent enough to design for both, and to make concepts like training runs and evaluation metrics legible to non-experts.
• A portfolio demonstrating at least one software interface design project, submitted with your application.