Senior Product Designer
Full Time
Remote (U.S. Time zones)
About Us
Ezra Climate is a venture-backed fintech building at the intersection of sustainable finance and artificial intelligence. Our mission is to accelerate capital deployment (with a focus on private credit) to climate solutions and other world positive investments, and we're building AI-powered tools to help these solutions access the credit they need to scale. We move fast, stay close to our customers, experiment constantly, and believe in launching, learning, and iterating quickly. We’re a small and experienced team with former leaders of companies like Mosaic, IDEO, and New Energy Nexus.
Come Create Impact With Us
We are seeking a highly experienced Product Designer to join our small, growing team and help lead the design of our AI-powered applications in the climate finance space. We’re seeking a leader-doer who can blend together the skills of a designer, product manager, and possibly Front-End Developer, in that order of priority and experience. The ideal person for this role has the ability to guide and implement world class digital design, and collaborate with engineering and product teams to create intuitive and engaging user experiences. They demonstrate a combination of product design & product management expertise, and acuity around visual/interaction/user experience design.
In this role, you’ll work through complex challenges and tackle all aspects of the design process, from user testing and prototyping to the design strategy of our product suite. Your contribution will take on various forms; this may include product management, brand strategy, user experience, visualization, interaction, experience, and digital product design. This role requires a seasoned product designer with depth and breadth of experience in digital product design, who holds the balance of confidence and humility to design industry-defining products.
Once here you will:
Develop and execute the overall design strategy and roadmap for Ezra’s products.
Lead and contribute to the product design process from concept to launch, including user research, prototyping, visual design, component design, working with developers through implementation, and testing.
Design user-centered interfaces for full-stack applications that integrate LLMs and other AI services.
Ensure a consistent and high-quality user experience across all platforms and devices.
Collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to define requirements, prioritize design efforts, and represent the user in implementation decisions.
Conduct user research to understand users deeply and create user journeys for new products and features.
Conduct user testing and gather feedback to iterate and improve designs.
Implement and maintain design systems and style guides.
Drive continuous improvement of design processes and best practices.
Experience and mindset:
A depth or breadth of 5+ years of experience in digital product design.
Proven track record of designing and launching successful digital products.
Fluency and experience in designing interfaces for AI/ML applications, and strategy, UI/UX, Visual and Interaction, and User experience design.
Successful candidates will combine rigorous understanding of user-centered design principles and methodologies, with proficiency in design tools such as figma and vibe/low coding solutions as Bolt.
Experience in prototyping and user testing
Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
Familiarity with financial data and documents.
Experience with fintech and designing for AI/ML services, APIs, and data-heavy applications.
Understanding of accessibility best practices.
You’ll excel in this role if you:
Enjoy the earliest stages of building a company and products including rapid prototyping to finding product-market fit.
Are passionate about creating intuitive and engaging user experiences.
Are a strategic thinker and can develop a long-term design vision while caring about the near-term details.
Have a passion for collaboration and working with cross-functional teams.
Enjoy a balance of strategic planning and hands-on design work, with a bias toward the latter.
Are passionate about climate finance and sustainability.
Enjoy solving complex problems with user-centered design.
Our Design & Development Philosophy
We believe in moving fast and learning from our customers. Our ideal candidate is someone who:
Takes ownership of projects and drives them forward independently, but asks for help and collaborates with the rest of the team seamlessly.
Gets excited about building quick prototypes to test ideas.
Is comfortable making design decisions autonomously, but bringing the team along at the same time.
Values customer feedback and can incorporate it quickly into solutions.
Can balance speed of delivery with design quality.
Enjoys the energy of a fast-moving startup environment.
How we work
High autonomy and ownership of your work.
Fast-paced, experimental environment where you can see your ideas come to life quickly.
Direct access to customers and immediate feedback on your work.
Opportunity to work on meaningful problems at the intersection of climate change and technology.
Benefits:
We pay competitively and equitably regardless of gender identity or race/ethnicity/cultural identity. The salary range for this role is $160k-180k USD plus equity. This range is influenced by a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to: skills, industry knowledge and experience. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on candidate experience and expertise.
Other Benefits: Flexible vacation policy, remote-friendly work environment, comprehensive healthcare benefits.