Senior Product Designer

The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our time—but it's also the greatest opportunity for innovation, and a challenge we're proud to take on. At Overstory, we're harnessing cutting-edge technology to enable a resilient electrical grid that keeps communities thriving as our world changes.

The grid is the backbone of life as we know it. It powers hospitals, keeps food fresh, and ensures communities stay connected. But extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and growing wildfire risks are putting this critical system under pressure. All of this combined makes the electric utility industry the greatest opportunity for tackling climate change. 

One of the leading causes of catastrophic wildfires and power outages? Trees and brush coming into contact with power lines. 

That's where we help. At Overstory, we use AI and advanced satellite imagery to pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. By giving utilities critical analysis on those risks, we're helping prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid.

Our team spans the Americas and Europe, and we work with utility partners across the Americas and beyond. We're outdoor enthusiasts, musicians, artists, athletes, parents, and adventurers—15 nationalities strong and growing. What unites us is a passion for solving complex problems, a commitment to climate action, and the belief that technology should be a force for good.

Join us to help us build a more resilient world together. 

About the role

We're looking for a Product Designer to play a leading role in shaping our customer-facing product. This is a role for someone entrepreneurial who wants to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty with designing a product in its early stages. You'll work closely with the rest of a dedicated team to build Overstory so that it has a giant impact on the world.

For this role we are looking to hire in the US or Canada (East Coast preferred), to be in close proximity to our customers. The team you would be working day-to-day with is distributed throughout the US and Europe.

What you'll do

• Lead the end-to-end product design process of our customer-facing product including user research, wireframes, prototypes, flows, detailed design specs and QA.
• Understand engineering and business constraints to create shippable solutions to users' problems, and continuously validate the solutions with customers.
• Lay out a design vision for what's possible by quickly iterating, knowing when to pay attention to detail and when to make low-fi sketches and prototypes.
• Communicate and present your work clearly and frequently to teammates and company leaders.
• Take full ownership of your work. That also means getting involved on how to communicate it to customers when releases happen.
• Think both short- and long-term so that you can meet near-term deadlines while iterating toward a future vision.
• Facilitate alignment and vision exercises (e.g. design sprints, workshops, planning).
• Occasionally meet in-person with our customers to run workshops, attend field visits and learn about how our customers are leveraging Overstory in their day-to-day operations
• Occasionally attend industry events to keep an eye on competition, and learn about how our prospects and customers are thinking about leveraging disrupting technology 

Minimum qualifications

• A strong portfolio featuring examples of interaction design work.
• Experience working at an early-stage startup.
• Demonstrated experience with end-to-end (hybrid UX and UI) product design for enterprise software.
• Demonstrated experience working with cross-functional teams (product, engineering and design)
• You demonstrate an acute skill in turning the complex into dead simple experiences that non-technical users grasp with ease.
• Exceptional verbal, written and visual communication skills in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience leading design sprints and building consensus around the best ideas.
• You take calculated risks: you're comfortable learning as you go and making mistakes. You know perfect is the enemy of good.
• A genuine passion for the urgency of solving our climate crisis.

Preferred qualifications

• 5+ years of product design experience.
• Experience working on a B2B SaaS product.
• You've worked closely with machine learning engineers and/or data scientists in a previous role.
• You have experience designing LLMs/AI powered products and know when the technology can be used to deliver delightful experiences.
• You've worked with maps/geospatial data. 

What you get

• To be part of truly mission-driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth's natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis.
• Flexible working environment with a lot of autonomy. We build our work days around our lives, not the other way around.
• Other benefits like a remote working budget, an educational budget and time to develop new skills.
• To be surrounded by an excellent, vibrant, smart team who have each other's back and believe in a culture of openness, tolerance and respect.
• Equity and a competitive salary.

About our team

We are a group of 100 people from all over the world. Fifteen nationalities are represented in our team. We work remotely from nine different countries and we are looking for candidates that are also living and working in one of these countries: United States, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Estonia, Portugal, France, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, and Canada. We meet up once a year in-person for our unforgettable team gathering event. We also offer the option to occasionally meet up for in-person collaboration.

Diversity & Inclusion

We place enormous value on diversity and inclusion and strive to continually bring in people of all genders, races, creeds, ethnicities, abilities and backgrounds. We believe that the best ideas emerge when people with different perspectives and approaches work together on a problem.

We're always looking to diversify our team further, but we're proud of the fact that four out of the nine people on our leadership team are female, 46% of the overall team are female and 20% of the team are people of color. Our team speaks fifteen languages: English, Dutch, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Luxembourgish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Estonian, Danish and Korean.

Our values
Tackling the climate crisis is our greatest mission.

We act with urgency.

Our curiosity fuels our growth.

We recognize that change is constant, and we find joy and power in exploration.

We're rooted in diversity.

Just as ecosystems need biodiversity to thrive, our resiliency comes from our differences.

We care for each other.

We love the power of machines but we nurture each other as humans.

Trust is fundamental.

We assume the best in everyone, and we share ideas openly so that we have a positive impact.

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Use of AI in Our Hiring Process

We sometimes use AI tools to support parts of our hiring process, such as helping us manage applications more efficiently or ensuring job descriptions are clear and inclusive. But don't worry, all hiring decisions are always made by people, not machines. Any data processed by AI is handled securely in line with GDPR and our Privacy Notice.

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