About Leap

Leap’s mission is to combat climate change by enabling a reliable electric grid that runs on clean energy. The electric grid is transforming from dirty (but predictable) fossil fuels to clean (but less predictable) renewable energy. To do so, the grid needs more flexible demand and supply to help maintain stability and reliability.

Leap plays a crucial role in opening up wholesale energy markets to all distributed energy resources, enabling our partners to get paid for providing flexibility to the grid. 

Leap is a privately-held tech company with funding from top VCs and well-known energy entrepreneurs. We are a distributed workplace with teammates based across the globe, in Europe and North America.

About the role

Compensation 

We use a compensation framework to keep the ranges as equitable as possible and the benchmarking is inclusive of location and experience level. 

Benefits

• 100% Remote work with flexible schedule
• Healthcare + dental + vision coverage for you (and partner or family)
• 401(k) 
• Life, AD&D, and long-term disability insurance
• Paid parental leave 
• Flexible paid time off, company holidays, & end-of-year employee appreciation week

Who we are looking for

• We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to own system and interaction design for one of our two primary product areas. You will be embedded within a cross-functional team including Product Management and Engineering. In this role, you’ll be the primary driver of Design in your team. You’ll also be a product leader in your team driving alignment alongside PM & Technical leads, while informing & influencing Leap’s overall product direction.

What you'll do

• Own the user experience (system & interaction design) for a large product area. 
• Build prototypes to validate ideas and gain alignment quickly with peers and stakeholders.
• Enable engineers with designs and work alongside them in the development process to iterate as you gather new learnings
• Influence the product roadmap by pitching ideas to Company Leadership alongside your PM and Engineering counterparts
• Contribute to and evolve Leap’s design system to ensure consistency across products.
• Conduct user research and testing to inform design decisions and advocate for user needs.
• Be a peer and leader within your team, sharing knowledge and best practices while mentoring others.
• Your design stack will include tools like: Figma, Figjam, Datadog, Userflow, GitLab, Coda

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product design with a focus on B2B web applications.
• A proven ability (supported by your portfolio) to design workflows for complex applications, while balancing user-centric design with business needs and industry context.
• Mastery of high fidelity prototyping with traditional design tools and an ability to quickly adopt useful low/no-code tools.
• Experience with design systems, including building, maintaining, and applying them in products.
• A continuous, lightweight approach to user research, with the ability to collaborate effectively across disciplines.
• A deep sense of ownership for the product’s long-term success and an eagerness to cultivate domain knowledge.
• Familiarity with best practices in interaction design, information architecture, and accessibility standards.
• Expertise in data visualization design, with experience in presenting complex data sets in clear and effective ways.
• (Nice-to-Have) Light JavaScript, CSS and HTML coding skills or the ability to leverage AI for coding tasks.

What’s it like to work at Leap?

Product: At our core we are a tech company. We love technical challenges and build things that we are proud of and would like to use ourselves. Everyone is highly involved in building and designing our products, making them extremely valuable and a pleasure to use.

Purpose: Some of us worked in energy before, some of us haven’t. All of us would like to make a difference and do our part in helping the world move towards a more resilient grid run on renewable energy. 

Fun: We work hard, but enjoy our time at work as well as outside of work. With the team spread out over multiple time zones we also embraced flexibility early on, and are focused on results instead of time spent or presence. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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