Lead Product Designer, Supercritical
£75-90k
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Carbon removal marketplace
Job no longer available
Carbon removal marketplace
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£75-90k
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To bring radical transparency to the carbon removal market
Role
Who you are
- You’re experienced in using Figma
- You’ve shipped products and seen how your design decisions affect them over time
- You’re proactive, can work independently, and be resilient in a fast-paced industry
- You believe in clear, easy-to-understand communication
- You demonstrate good taste, and can articulate why you think a piece of design is good or bad, successful or unsuccessful
- You understand and care about your craft; but you’re willing to make tradeoffs, and be scrappy where necessary, to move quickly
- You’re happy to share early ideas and value feedback from others
- You're motivated by contributing to climate change solutions
What the job involves
- You’ll be the second full-time design hire at Supercritical, reporting to the Director of Design. Design works within the Product team closely in conjunction with PMs and Engineers. We’re a small but growing company, so this role will be hugely impactful in shaping both the culture of design at Supercritical — as well as the broader culture of the company
- We’re looking for a Lead product designer to join our business as we enter an exciting phase of growth. We want to find someone capable of crafting thoughtful, high-quality user interfaces who understands the importance of digital experiences as a brand touchpoint. You’ll report to the Director of Design. If you’re motivated by answering design, user, and strategic questions for the good of the planet, then you could be a great fit
- Designing products from start to finish, as part of our software platform (used by some of the world’s largest enterprise CDR buyers)
- Designing our main marketing website and microsites
- Designing design: As designer number 2, you'll be instrumental in defining the product design process at Supercritical
- Shaping how the world thinks about carbon removal: as a nascent industry, you’ll have an incredible opportunity to define how carbon removal is communicated
- Making tradeoffs that take into account user experience, business priorities, and engineering effort
- Working cross-functionally with Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, Sales and Climate and Supply teams to deliver products that meet customer needs
- Tackling problems as you see fit, using tools you’re comfortable with: wireframing, creating interactive prototypes, doing user research — whatever works to help solve the challenge at hand
- Sharing your work early and often in your team, and presenting regularly to the wider company
Application process
- Recruiter screening call
- An informal chat with the Director of Design
- Formal interview with Director of Design
- Design Task & presentation
- Founder interview
Our take
Supercritical is offering businesses the option to reach carbon net zero output. It measures a company’s carbon footprint, creates an actionable plan for reducing emissions, and recommends a portfolio of high-quality carbon removal offsets to buy. It does this through unprecedented transparency of price, availability and quality, so its customers know exactly how its carbon output is being reduced, and what effect this reduction will have.
Businesses create a lot of pollution that either needs to be lowered or removed from the atmosphere to keep the earth’s warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. With a greater carbon footprint than the entire aviation industry, Supercritical has made the tech industry an initial target.
When companies buy conventional offsets, the carbon emitted still remains in the atmosphere as someone else gets paid not to emit the same amount of carbon. Supercritical differentiates itself by focusing exclusively on carbon removal offsets that actively remove toxins from the atmosphere through methods such as tree planting, biochar, enhanced weathering, bio-oil sequestration, and direct air capture. It partners its customers with teams of climate scientists on carbon removal procurement, offering live pricing and granular vetting to simplify carbon reduction for the fluid and volatile tech industry.
Supercritical counts well-known businesses The Economist Group, Virgin Atlantic and Rothschild & Co as customers. And its using funding to grow its carbon removal to a mass scale, placing it in a good spot to do so with its unique strategy.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
40% female employees
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2023
$13m
SERIES A
Aug 2021
$2.8m
SEED
Total funding: $15.8m
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Leadership
Michelle You
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founder of Songkick and was CPO for 9 years. Product Consultant & Advisor for several startups and was a Venture Partner at LocalGlobe. Current Board Member of Subak and Member of Getting to Zero Steering Group.
Aaron Randall
(Co-Founder & CTO)Progressed from Software Developer to CTO of Songkick over the course of 7 years. Previously interim CTO and then Technical Advisor at Lingumi.
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