Staff Product Designer

Become a Staff Product Designer at Aurora Solar in Canada, where you'll lead the design of key sales experiences. Enjoy flexible PTO, generous parental leave, and a supportive work environment focused on solar energy solutions. Join Aurora Solar as a Staff Product Designer in Canada, where you'll lead the design of critical revenue-driving experiences in solar sales. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create intuitive workflows and enhance user experiences. Enjoy benefits like flexible PTO, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, and a generous learning stipend. Be part of a mission-driven company dedicated to making solar energy accessible for all.

Aurora Solar Canada Flexible Full Time CAD 130k–194k yearly UTC-05:00 — UTC-06:00

Aurora Solar

Company Overview

Name

Aurora Solar

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Founded

2013

Size

Approximately 170 employees (source: thesoftwarereport.com). Revenue figures are not publicly disclosed as of 2023.

What They Do

Aurora Solar is a pioneering software company that specializes in solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, focusing on the design, sales, and delivery workflows necessary for solar installations. The company has developed a comprehensive cloud-based platform that automates the entire process of solar project design, utilizing advanced technologies such as aerial imagery, AI-powered 3D modeling, and LIDAR-based shading analysis. This innovative approach allows users to generate customizable residential and commercial solar designs in a matter of minutes, significantly reducing the time and effort traditionally required for such tasks (source: aurorasolar.com).

With over 7,000 organizations utilizing its platform, Aurora Solar has facilitated the design of more than 20 million solar projects globally. The platform is particularly beneficial for solar installation companies, EPC firms, and sales organizations, providing tools that enhance efficiency and accuracy in project planning. Notably, the platform's capabilities include financial proposal generation, permitting documentation, and built-in CRM for lead tracking, making it a comprehensive solution for solar professionals (source: promptloop.com).

Aurora Solar differentiates itself in the market through its high accuracy, validated by the California Energy Commission for Title 24 compliance, and its rapid design times, which can be under 30 minutes for some users. The platform's extensive dataset, derived from 20 million projects, enhances its AI capabilities, allowing for refined and precise solar designs that outperform many fragmented tools available in the market (source: aurorasolar.com).

Projects & Track Record

As a software provider, Aurora Solar does not engage in the physical execution of solar projects but has empowered the design of over 20 million solar PV systems worldwide. This includes a remarkable surge during the pandemic, where the company reported generating 4 million designs by October 2020 alone. By 2021, the total number of projects designed surpassed 5 million, with users creating over 100,000 PV designs weekly, showcasing the platform's scalability and effectiveness (source: thesoftwarereport.com). Key clients include industry leaders such as SunPower, Vivint Solar, and Qcells North America, indicating the platform's strong market presence and reliability among major solar installation firms (source: promptloop.com).

Recent Developments

In the past two years, Aurora Solar has made significant advancements in its technology, including the introduction of storage solutions for self-consumption modeling, which helps users optimize their ROI while minimizing grid reliance. The company has also focused on enhancing data accuracy for solar systems, adapting to the changing landscape of solar incentives (source: aurorasolar.com). While no major contracts or acquisitions have been reported since the $200 million Series D funding round in 2022, the company has maintained its growth trajectory, empowering over 7,000 professionals globally and achieving high-volume usage with over 100,000 designs generated weekly (source: thesoftwarereport.com).

Working There

Aurora Solar offers a diverse range of roles across various departments, including engineering, product development, revenue, customer success, marketing, finance, and operations. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, which serves as its sole operational hub. The culture at Aurora Solar is characterized by collaborative innovation and a customer-centric approach, reflecting the high-growth environment typical of tech startups. While specific employee benefits are not publicly detailed, the rapid growth to approximately 170 employees by 2020 suggests a dynamic workplace that values talent and efficiency (source: thesoftwarereport.com).

Contact

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At Aurora Solar, we foster an exceptional work environment through inclusiveness and transparency. Our pay ranges are anchored to the median of the market for companies of our size and industry. Our pay for new hires is typically set at the start of the position's pay range. This allows for financial growth within the role as the employee builds experience and displays a track record of performance success at Aurora.

Aurora is on a mission to create a future of solar for all. Our award-winning software puts the power of data and technology into the hands of every solar professional to make solar adoption simple and predictable. Our software has designed millions of solar projects so far, empowering solar companies to sell, design, and install residential and commercial solar arrays accurately, seamlessly, and at scale.

We've been named one of "The Best Remote Companies To Work for in 2025" by BuiltIn.com and have been recognized for the second time as a Certified Green Business (CGB) with the city of San Francisco. We're in this together to support the world's transition to solar.

About the Team

Aurora's design team is composed of a mix of individuals who are driven to solve complex, systems-level problems for residential and commercial solar. We are a lean, agile team, operating with a startup mentality where designers own the end-to-end design lifecycle. Our team embodies a strong collaborative ethos as we partner with product and engineering peers from discovery and research, through to prototyping, delivery, and measuring success. We value a customer-first mentality to uncover opportunities that align with strategic business priorities. As a design team, we rely on peer design critiques and pairing to elevate the quality of our work.

About the Role

As a Staff Product Designer, you'll lead the design of Aurora's most critical revenue-driving experiences and own the end-to-end sales journeys from project creation through financing, proposal presentation, and contract signing.

You'll operate as a strategic design leader for Sales Mode, partnering closely with Product to identify the highest-leverage opportunities and drive multi-quarter initiatives from discovery through delivery. You'll help define how Aurora enables installers to sell with confidence, financiers to participate with clarity, and homeowners to make informed decisions.

You'll bring a strong customer lens and systems mindset, grounding design decisions in research, real-world constraints, and data. You're fluent in metrics and experimentation, able to diagnose funnel friction, prioritize effectively, and measure success. Through close partnership with Product, Engineering, and Sales, you'll shape experiences that are clearer, faster, and more trustworthy at scale.

Your Impact

Own end-to-end design leadership for Sales Mode experiences, spanning project creation, financing options, proposal personalization, and contract signing
Set a multi-quarter experience vision and strategy for Sales Mode, translating business goals and customer needs into clear design direction and roadmaps
Lead discovery to identify the highest-leverage problems using customer interviews, workflow analysis, and data to prioritize
Design and iterate on flows that balance the needs of installers, financiers, and homeowners, including complex edge cases, compliance constraints, and approval flows
Partner deeply with Product and Engineering to scope work into milestones, align tradeoffs, and ensure high-quality implementation
Raise the bar on craft and consistency by contributing patterns to the design system and improving shared interaction models across Aurora
Influence cross-team alignment by facilitating reviews, articulating rationale, and mentoring other designers through critique and collaboration

What You Bring

8+ years of product design experience, with demonstrated leadership on complex, cross-functional initiatives
Demonstrated ability to simplify multi-step workflows, and build intuitive experiences that serve multiple personas
Deep customer empathy, with experience designing for real-world B2B constraints while maintaining a strong end-user experience
Data fluency, with the ability to pair quantitative signals with qualitative insight to guide decisions and measure impact
Excellent product thinking and judgment with the ability to make smart tradeoffs, align teams through ambiguity, and maintain velocity without sacrificing quality
A high bar for craft across interaction design, information architecture, and visual design, paired with clear storytelling and communication in a remote environment
Collaborative leadership skills, with the ability to influence across Product, Engineering, and Sales

Nice to Haves

Experience with financing, payments, workflows, or contract/e-sign workflows (or similar experiences)
Experience designing B2B SaaS products across multiple personas, roles/permissions, and admin configuration
Strong prototyping skills to align stakeholders, test ideas quickly, and de-risk complex workflows

What We Offer

🏖️Flexible PTO - Take the time when you need it
🍼Parental Leave - 16 weeks with 100% base salary + gradual return to work
💰WFH Stipend - An initial $675 CAD (Non-engineers) or $1000 CAD (Engineering roles)
🏢 Coworking Stipend - $400 CAD / month if you prefer to be at a coworking facility near you
☀️Energize Fridays - Company-wide days to log off and recharge
📶Connectivity Stipend - Up to $125 CAD / month towards internet or phone
Learning & Development - $970 CAD / annually to use towards professional development (You have to complete 90 days of employment to receive this stipend)
🩺Medical, Dental, and Vision - Aurora will cover 100% of premiums for employee-only and dependent coverage of our supplemental medical, dental, and vision plans
Please take a look at our 2025 Canadian Benefits Booklet for a deeper dive into our offerings

Please note that stipend amounts are based on USD; local currency amounts may vary with FX rate fluctuations

Where Aurorans are: Aurora currently has teams within the US, Canada, Poland, and Germany with additional locations on the horizon. We're united in our work to support the world's transition to solar!

Aurora is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workforce of people who believe in and are passionate about creating a future of solar energy for all. We are an equal opportunity employer, we welcome and consider qualified applicants regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. We encourage you to apply even if you believe that you do not meet all of the above criteria!

Aurora is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation that would better enable your success during the application or interview process, please complete this form.

Compensation Range: CA$130.2K - CA$193.8K