Senior Product Designer

Job Description

At Zero Homes, our mission is to electrify the world’s homes for healthy and sustainable living. With 145 million homes in the United States and residential buildings accounting for 20% of global climate emissions, there is an extraordinary opportunity to impact decarbonization. Zero Homes is pioneering the transition to an all-electric future with our technology. Our focus is on making home electrification accessible, affordable, and delightful. Join our team to help lead the charge and accelerate the energy transition.

About the Role & Your Impact

You will be the first full time Product Designer to join our seed stage team of talented engineers and seasoned climate tech leaders. This is a generalist, individual contributor role that will report to our Head of Product. We do not anticipate specialization that distinguishes between research and design, or UX and UI. You will work with 1-4 engineers in six week cycles to take loosely defined projects and deliver new features. We do use Figma, but we will expect you to be comfortable working with source code and design artifacts in git. Some examples of software products that you will support include native mobile applications that homeowners use to scan their homes and a web based design tool for HVAC systems. You will be given broad latitude to make project level design decisions and expected to operate effectively with minimal oversight.

What You Bring

You are a generalist with an exceptional taste for great design. Whether it’s researching user needs, brainstorming design concepts, testing prototypes, or building features, you want to own projects from beginning to end. You are comfortable working with sticky notes, whiteboard markers, Figma, and front-end code (HTML/CSS/JS).

You are a detail-oriented systems thinker. You want to own the whole product, not just isolated features. You always anchor your work on user needs, and seek to understand how users operate in a larger context. You may not have experience in climate tech or building science, but you are eager to dive into the world of residential electrification.

You have an eye for elegance - the confluence of beauty, effectiveness, and simplicity - and you have a proven track record of building elegant digital experiences. You value functional beauty in the physical world, and you are excited to build software that will create healthy, comfortable, and sustainable living spaces for our customers.

You are a pragmatic team player. You know that products only matter if they ship. You are prepared to collaborate with engineers and make tradeoffs to deliver projects within a fixed time box. You want lots of freedom, but you know that comes with the responsibility to communicate and deliver.

You are enthusiastic about in-person work. You want to know your users by name, and you want to see them smile when they use your designs. You live within 50 miles of Denver, CO, or are willing to relocate.

Nice to Haves

• Graphic design, illustration, and/or video production skills
• Relevant industry experience: residential construction, electrification, HVAC, CAD, Solar, or Energy
• Experience at an early-stage startup

$95,000 - $135,000 a year

• 📈 Equity
• 🩺 Medical and Vision
• 🏝️ Unlimited PTO + unlimited sick days
• 🏠 Flexible Schedule with some Work From Home days
• 🖥️ Workstation stipend
• 🏓 Industrial office space in Downtown Denver with unlimited snacks, drinks on tap, and team ping-pong

Zero Homes is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible experience for all candidates. We encourage you to apply even if you believe that you do not meet all of the above criteria!