Senior Product Designer (Remote, US)

Who We Are

Renew Home is on a mission to change how we power the world by making it easier for customers to save energy and money at home as part of the largest residential virtual power plant in North America.

We partner with industry-leading brands to better manage residential energy for users by prioritizing efficiency, savings, and comfort — and cleaner energy for everyone.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer striving to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment where everyone feels that they have a voice that is heard.

We strongly encourage candidates to check out our website at www.renewhome.com  to learn more about the world-changing work we are doing.

Role Summary

The Senior Product Designer at Renew Home will bring our mission to life by designing consumer-facing features from concept to launch. The role requires an ability to quickly grasp technical requirements and map complex flows, merged with a flair for storytelling and crafting elegant, engaging interfaces. You'll collaborate closely with product managers and engineers to design and deliver a personalized recommendation engine and critical growth initiatives, with ample opportunities to broaden your impact as business priorities evolve.

What You Will Do

• Own the design of new features and enhancements from ideation to launch, ensuring a cohesive and engaging user experience.
• Collaborate closely with product managers and engineers to inform the product roadmap, feature definition, and technical feasibility.
• Independently create product design deliverables including user flows, information architecture, wireframes, concept mock-ups, prototypes, and production-ready designs, applying direction and feedback from design team lead.
• Present and clearly articulate design decisions and rationale to various audiences, including Renew Home leadership and external partners.
• Advocate for our users by keeping user needs and the holistic user journey top-of-mind, even when designing for a select portion of the journey.
• Plan and conduct user research to test hypotheses and design solutions, synthesizing learnings and translating them into actionable design updates.
• Contribute to and evolve our design system to ensure consistency and efficiency across products, collaborating with the brand design and product design teams.
• Fuel our design team culture by participating in team-wide critiques, and helping the team keep up with best practices and trends.
• Help evolve our processes by collaborating on operational improvements and exploring new design tools and resources, including AI-powered tools.

• 5+ years of experience in Product Design, UX Design, or a similar role, with a portfolio showcasing your design process and impact.
• Track record of collaborating with Product Managers and Engineering partners to ship successful product experiences.
• Demonstrated ability to design simple solutions to complex technical requirements, aligning designs to user needs and business goals.
• Systems-thinker with ability to visualize the larger system your work fits into via flows, information architecture, and user journeys.
• Work that demonstrates a care for storytelling and crafting a cohesive UX narrative.
• Passion for creative ideation and exploring a wide range of bold solutions.
• Strong visual design sensibility.
• Fluency in Figma to design and prototype your ideas.
• Self-directed, with the ability to break work into manageable deliverables across the design process.
• Excellent communication skills, able to articulate design rationale clearly and react to real-time feedback diplomatically.
• Low ego, holds strong opinions loosely, collaborative, proactive, and loves learning.
• Bonuses:
• Experience integrating AI-powered tools into your workflow, excitement to keep trying and evangelizing new tools.
• Knowledge of user-centered design principles, usability, and accessibility standards.
• Proficiency in writing UX copy as part of the design process.
• Experience utilizing and contributing to design systems.
• Knowledge of user research approaches, with the ability to plan, execute, and synthesize studies.
• Experience at scaling organizations, start-ups, or digital design agencies.

What You'll Get

• A full-time position, with a competitive salary based on experience. The base salary for this role is: $175k - $205k.
• Fully remote work environment with home office set-up allowance.
• Real and lived work-life balance - Company perks include no pre-set vacation limits (with a top-down culture of taking meaningful PTO every year!), parental leave benefits, and a corporate value of working sustainably and putting families first.
• Competitive benefits package that includes numerous health and wellness benefits.
• 401(k) plan, with employer contributions to the same.
• Opportunity to work with amazing people who are passionate about their mission, thriving in a fully-remote work environment, and learning and growing every day.

Not eligible for visa sponsorship.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Individuals seeking employment at Renew Home are considered without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identification, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, veteran or military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

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.