Senior Product Designer

As a Senior Product Designer at Overstory, your primary responsibilities will involve leading the entire product design process for our customer-facing products and internal tools. This includes conducting user research, creating wireframes and prototypes, developing detailed design specifications, and ensuring quality assurance. You'll need to understand engineering and business constraints to create effective solutions, all while continuously validating these solutions with our users.

To qualify for the Senior Product Designer role at Overstory, you'll need a strong portfolio showcasing your interaction design work and at least 5 years of product design experience, preferably with enterprise software. Proven experience working with cross-functional teams—product, engineering, and design—is essential, as are exceptional communication skills, both verbal and written. A genuine passion for addressing the climate crisis is a must!

Working as a Senior Product Designer at Overstory means embracing a remote-first environment. Our team spans several countries across the U.S. and Europe, offering flexibility in your work schedule. You'll enjoy an autonomous workday tailored around your life, with periodic opportunities for in-person collaboration, promoting a strong team culture despite the distance.

Joining Overstory as a Senior Product Designer provides numerous benefits, including the chance to be part of mission-driven work aimed at reducing wildfires and protecting natural resources. You'll benefit from a flexible working environment, an educational budget to develop new skills, and the opportunity to work alongside a vibrant team that fosters diversity and inclusion. Additionally, compensation includes equity and a competitive salary.

Overstory places great importance on diversity and inclusion, actively seeking to create a varied team that represents multiple genders, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, and abilities. We believe that diverse perspectives lead to the best ideas, and we proudly showcase our leadership team's diversity, including gender representation and multicultural team dynamics. Our commitment to inclusivity is reflected in our efforts to cultivate a welcoming and respectful workplace.

When discussing your design process, explain how you approach a project from research to validation. Outline how you gather user insights, create wireframes, produce prototypes, and ensure quality assurance. Emphasize your collaborative work with cross-functional teams and how you iterate based on feedback to reach a successful end product.

In your response, highlight your openness to receiving feedback and how you incorporate it into your design iterations. Discuss specific situations where constructive criticism improved the outcome of your project and emphasize the collaborative nature of your work with peers.

Reflect on a significant design challenge you faced, explaining the context and your approach to resolving it. Describe the steps taken to analyze the problem and the creative solutions you implemented. Show how your persistence and adaptability led to positive results.

Discuss the methods you employ to prioritize user needs in your design process, such as conducting user research, usability testing, and feedback sessions. Give examples of how understanding user pain points has influenced your design decisions and improved user experiences.

Mention specific design tools you are proficient in, such as Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD, and explain how they aid your design workflow. Highlight the importance of being up-to-date with industry-standard tools to create effective designs.

Share your strategies for staying current with design trends, such as following industry blogs, attending webinars, or participating in design communities. Explain how you bring these insights into your work while tailoring your designs to meet project goals.

Give a specific example of a design sprint or workshop you facilitated, detailing your approach to engaging the team and maintaining focus on objectives. Illustrate how this initiative led to valuable project outcomes and strengthened team collaboration.

In your answer, discuss your time management skills and how you prioritize tasks effectively. Provide examples of how you meet immediate project requirements while also keeping an eye on broader design goals, ensuring a cohesive user experience.

Share your passion for product design and environmental issues, explaining how Overstory's mission resonates with you. Discuss your motivations for wanting to contribute to solutions for challenges like the climate crisis through innovative design.

Emphasize your communication skills and how you value input from team members in product management, engineering, and marketing. Discuss methods you use to foster alignment, such as regular check-ins, feedback sessions, and collaborative brainstorming.