Director of Product Design, Sweep
€90-100k
Yearly salary in the UK is 90,000 - 100,000 GBP
1-5 days a week in office
Carbon footprint management solution
Job no longer available
Carbon footprint management solution
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
€90-100k
Yearly salary in the UK is 90,000 - 100,000 GBP
1-5 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help businesses track and act on their carbon, so they can become forever companies.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in product design, with 5+ years leading design teams
- Proven experience delivering impactful designs in a B2B SaaS environment
- A strong portfolio showcasing user-centered design solutions for complex business challenges
- Deep expertise in design systems, interaction design, and information architecture
- Experience leading cross-functional teams and working in close partnership with product and engineering
- Strong proficiency in modern design tools and prototyping workflows
- A true passion for nerdy, tricky software (design) problems
- A strategic leader who balances seeing the bigger picture and great execution
- A champion of user-centered design practices and design thinking
- A creative problem-solver who simplifies complexity through design
- An empathetic, collaborative leader who inspires trust and alignment
- A strong communicator with the ability to advocate for design internally and externally
- A deep connection to our mission to drive business and environmental change
What the job involves
- Sweep is hiring a Director of Product Design to lead and scale our design vision, making sustainability a cornerstone of business success
- As Director of Product Design, you will translate company goals into a product design strategy that enables Sweep to create simple and impactful user experiences at scale
- You will lead the existing product design team, champion user-centred practices, and ensure that our product delivers both beauty and functionality to businesses embracing sustainability
- You’ll set the vision for design, ensure alignment across teams, and elevate the design function to drive customer delight, retention, and growth. You will act as a unifying force, balancing product requirements, user needs, and technical feasibility
- Drive Sweep’s product design practice, ensuring a simple, consistent and delightful BtoB SaaS experience across our entire platform
- Collaborate closely with Sweep’s leadership team to translate Sweep’s company goals into impactful SaaS solutions
- Establish best practices to drive continuous improvements to the user experience and the ways we measure design’s impact towards Sweep’s success
- Lead and develop a growing world-class design organization that’s focused on impact
- Ensure the design team works seamlessly with product, engineering customer success and other stakeholders to deliver exceptional results
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, curiosity, and ownership. And provide clear direction, feedback, and professional growth opportunities for team members
- Simplify complex data management challenges and sustainability standards into intuitive, actionable interfaces
- Enforce user-centered design principles, using discovery methods like research, prototyping, and testing to ensure our user’s needs are always at the heart of every pixel
- Grow Sweep’s design system to drive consistency and efficiency, and ensure that accessibility, usability, and scalability are foundational to all design efforts
- Be an advocate for design excellence and its role in driving Sweep’s mission and growth
- Represent Sweep’s design vision externally, engaging with the broader design community
- Foster a shared understanding of design’s impact across the organization
Application process
- Contact: Rosangela
Our take
Even as eco-friendly sentiment increases, the vast majority of companies aren’t measuring their emissions accurately and regularly. And, with ESGs and carbon-tracking ramping up the corporate agenda, companies are scrambling for solutions, especially in light of the coming sustainable reporting regulations.
Sweep, which targets carbon management in large enterprises at the FTSE 500 level, delivers software that enables users to "take control of their climate journey" - with a toolsuite that makes carbon data collection, security and analysis seamless and automated.
With Sweep, the burden on companies to track their impact is lessened, leaving them to focus on actively reducing their carbon footprint and contributing to global net-zero efforts. Though there are other players in the market, such as Plan A, Watershed, and Emitwise, Sweep has secured itself a leading position with smart partnerships and a deep focus on the specific tech requirements of the space.
The company has seen good funding, being one of the best-funded carbon management platforms on the market. In 2022, Sweep interestingly reported on the ineffectiveness of traditional carbon offsetting - which has for some time been up for debate - and published a carbon reduction methodology designed to "limit financial and reputational risks and add moral weight to corporate climate programmes". It is now partnering with technology companies like 3Degrees and Urbanomy to build new decarbonisation strategies for businesses.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
36% female employees
53% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2022
$73m
SERIES B
Dec 2021
$22m
SERIES A
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- Lunch voucher
- Health insurance entirely free for you and your family
- RTT
- Trust and flexible working hours
- Personal development training fund
- Global and team offsites
- Hybrid environment (At least 1 day per week at the office)
Company HQ
Antigone, Montpellier, France
Leadership
Rachel Delacour
(CEO)Previously Co-Founder & CEO of BIME which was acquired by Zendesk. Rachel has extensive experience as a board member alongside her role as CEO and co-founder of Sweep.
Yannick Chaze
(CTO)Worked at Zendesk for four years, ultimately as a Senior Engineering Manager. Former Lecturer at Polytech Montpellier.
Raphael Güller
(CDO)Worked at Zendesk for four years, ultimately as Creative Director. Has also been Creative Director at Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
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