Title of the Role: Product Designer

Description of Role: We are seeking an experienced, visionary Product Designer to join our team and help shape the future of our product experiences. In this role, you will be responsible for driving the design of intuitive, visually compelling user interfaces that align with both business objectives and user needs. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including our Product & Engineering, Fellowship, and Climate Weeks teams, to create seamless end-to-end user experiences across all our initiatives. The ideal candidate will bring a strong foundation in UI design, a deep understanding of user experience principles, and an ability to stay ahead of design trends, using emerging best practices where relevant. You will have the opportunity to influence key design decisions, contributing to a product that drives engagement, solves complex problems, and achieves strategic business goals. As a hands-on designer, you will own the design system, from components to full product features, and ensure the highest standards of accessibility and performance are met. If you are passionate about designing impactful experiences that balance user needs with business objectives, and you thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, we would love to meet you.

Company Description:

Climatebase is the world's leading platform for climate careers. We’re on a mission to accelerate climate solutions by building products, programs, and community to grow the climate workforce and support the hiring needs of thousands of organizations in the space. We do this through our climate jobs platform at Climatebase.org (1M+ users each year), our annual summit SF Climate Week (25k+ attendees), the Climatebase Weekly newsletter (150k+ readers), and our Fellowship program, a climate career accelerator for top mission-driven talent (3000+ alums).

Our climate jobs platform: Each year, over 1M job seekers use Climatebase.org to apply to hundreds of thousands of climate jobs. Thousands of employers rely on our comprehensive AI-powered hiring platform, which includes a talent network with 100,000 profiles, a built-in Applicant Tracking System (ATS), and a feature-rich community platform (currently in private beta and only accessible to members of the Climatebase Fellowship)

We organize San Francisco Climate Week, which attracts over 25k attendees across over 650 events organized in partnership with over 1000 organizations.

The Climate Week Network: We’re expanding the impact of SF Climate Week by building the Climate Week Network — a growing coalition of independently organized Climate Weeks around the world. Each city-based Climate Week is locally led and globally connected through shared resources, branding, and partnerships, helping accelerate climate collaboration and community building in new regions.

Climatebase Weekly newsletter: We’ve developed one of the leading climate newsletters, Climatebase Weekly, which reaches over 150k readers three times each week.

The Climatebase Fellowship: We launched the first cohort of the Climatebase Fellowship in 2022. Since then, we have helped accelerate the climate careers of over 3,000 Fellows that we've selected from over 15,000 applicants across 7 cohorts.

Qualifications:

-UI craft (expert): Pixel-accurate visual design, typography, spacing, iconography, motion/micro-interactions; consistent quality across web + mobile, light/dark.

-UX architecture & flows: End-to-end journeys, IA, wireframes, interactive prototypes; clear navigation, error/empty states, reduced cognitive load.

-Product & business acumen: Connects design to KPIs (activation, conversion, retention, revenue); scopes impact, manages trade-offs, prioritizes well.

-Design systems ownership: Tokens, components, patterns, documentation in Figma; governance to keep velocity + quality high.

-Experimentation & analytics: Hypothesis framing, A/B and MVT, success metrics, reads results (Amplitude/Mixpanel/GA) and iterates.

-User research (lean): Plans and runs usability tests/interviews/surveys; synthesizes insights into requirements and confident decisions.

-Tech-savvy handoff: Anticipates edge cases/states, performance and feasibility; dev-ready specs, partner closely with engineering.

-Collaboration & influence: Communicates rationale to stakeholders.

-Systems thinking & documentation: Decision logs, changelogs, Loom walkthroughs; prevents regressions and knowledge loss.

-Responsible/privacy-aware design: Consent, data minimization, transparent controls; working knowledge of GDPR/CCPA implications.

-Accessibility: Ships to WCAG 2.2 AA (min), inclusive patterns, keyboard/AT support baked into designs and QA.

-Working style & logistics: Comfortable with async, fast iteration; ~4+ hours overlap with U.S. time zones.

Nice-to-haves:

-Content design / UX writing: Clear microcopy, voice/tone, in-product education that moves metrics.

-Growth surfaces expertise: Onboarding, paywalls/pricing, notifications/lifecycle messaging, referral loops.

-Instrumentation & analytics taxonomy: Event schema/naming so data and experiments are trustworthy.

-AI-adjacent savvy: Evaluates/uses AI-assisted design workflows.

-Service design (omni-channel): Journeys spanning product, email/notifications, support, and offline touchpoints.

-Data viz & dashboards: Information-dense admin/analytics views that stay legible and actionable.

-Marketplace/community patterns: Profiles, matching/search/filtering, reputation systems, network-effects safeguards.

-Design Ops: Figma library/versioning, tokens pipelines, Storybook sync, contribution guidelines.

-Design QA & release readiness: Accessibility audits with AT, regression checks, acceptance criteria.

-Performance-aware design: Skeletons, perceived-performance tactics, low-bandwidth constraints.

To apply, please submit the following:

1.Your resume

2.A portfolio of your previous design work.

3.A with a brief cover letter explaining why you feel like you're the right fit for this role and why you'd be excited to take on this position.

Application Link: https://climatebase.org/job/66679344/product-designer-uiux?source=jobs_directory_algolia&queryID=3ae55e43c9e936034ca00372ee5e9cfa

Remote: Yes

Time Commitment: Full-time