Sierra Club

Product Designer

Sierra Club • $110K — $130K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Extensive UI/UX design experience managing projects from ideation to launch.
  • Strong curiosity for understanding user needs and providing effective solutions.
  • Fluent in full-stack design, ensuring high-quality visual elements and interaction flows.
  • Proven collaborative skills in working with cross-functional teams to create products.
  • Excellent communication skills for articulating design concepts to various stakeholders.
  • Experience in gathering customer insights through feedback and usability testing.
  • Proficient in design tools like Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, with strong prototyping skills.

Responsibilities

  • Solve customer challenges for diverse stakeholders including agents and developers.
  • Innovate new tools and processes in the area of AI agent design.
  • Drive the design process from concept to execution, collaborating with cross-functional teams.
  • Partner with engineering, product, and leadership on building cohesive experiences.
  • Conduct usability testing and gather feedback for continuous improvement.
  • Develop and maintain design systems for consistency across platforms.

Benefits

  • Unlimited paid time off for flexibility and well-being.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
  • Life insurance and disability benefits for peace of mind.
  • Retirement plan tailored to your location.
  • Generous parental leave options.
  • Fertility and family building support through Carrot.
  • Free lunch and snacks to fuel your workday.
  • Discretionary stipend for personalized benefits spending.
  • Unique offer of free alphorn lessons to foster team culture.
Full Job Description
What You'll Do:
  • Solve for the customer: We serve multiple stakeholders - People looking for help from our Agents via chat & voice, CX managers using our tools to monitor and improve the process, and Developers looking to build on and extend our platform. Each of these has a unique set of needs and product challenges.
  • Innovate: AI Agents represent a new frontier. Discovering new tools and processes for building agents will be among the defining characteristics of the next generation of companies.
  • End-to-End Ownership: Drive the entire design process from concept to execution to iteration, in close collaboration with cross-functional partners.
  • Collaborate Across Teams: Partner closely engineering, product, leadership, and the entire company to define and build a seamless and cohesive experience.
  • Gather Feedback: Get your hand dirty with customer feedback and usability testing to gather insights and iterate to ensure we solve user problems effectively.
  • Build Design Systems: Develop and maintain a scalable design system that ensures consistency and efficiency across all products and platforms.
What You'll Bring:
  • Proven Experience: Extensive experience in UI/UX design, with background leading design projects from ideation to launch.
  • Curiosity: Passion for deeply understanding user needs and finding the right solutions from first principles.
  • Full-Stack Design: Visual design is the baseline. You should be fluent in creating beautiful, high-quality designs-working end-to-end from shaping product direction to defining the right interactions and ensuring every pixel is crafted with care.
  • Great Collaboration: Design is a team sport, and building great products means working closely with product, engineering, and leadership to help bring ideas to life.
  • Excellent Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate problems, design concepts and decisions to various stakeholders.
  • Research Skills: Experience gathering customer feedback, usability testing, and translating findings into actionable design improvements.
  • Technical Proficiency: Mastery of Figma, along with classics like Photoshop and Illustrator. Strong ability to prototype-whether in Figma, Principal, or code-quickly and effectively.
  • Adaptability and Resilience: Comfort working in a fast-paced startup environment, able to adapt to changing priorities and handle ambiguity with grace.
Even better...
  • Experience designing for AI-driven products or conversational interfaces.
  • Experience working on developer-driven products, including SDKs, APIs, and technical tooling.
  • Experience with Typescript, React, and other programming languages.
What we offer

We want our benefits to reflect our values and offer the following to full-time employees:
  • Flexible (unlimited) paid time off
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
  • Life insurance and disability benefits
  • Retirement plan dependent on country of employment
  • Parental leave
  • Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
  • Lunch, as well as delicious snacks and coffee to keep you energized
  • Discretionary benefit stipend giving people the ability to spend where it matters most
  • Free alphorn lessons

These benefits are further detailed in Sierra's policies, may vary by region, and are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefits plans. Eligible full-time employees can participate in Sierra's equity plans subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies.

About Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is a nonprofit organization that promotes environmental conservation. It was founded in 1892 by John Muir and is one of the oldest and largest environmental organizations in the United States. The organization has over 3.8 million members and supporters and is dedicated to protecting the planet's natural resources and wildlife. The Sierra Club engages in a variety of activities, including lobbying for environmental legislation, organizing outdoor activities, and publishing a magazine. The organization is headquartered in Oakland, California.
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