Hybrid Staff Product Designer

at Amber Electric

• Job title: Staff Product Designer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: A$180,000 - A$220,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Melbourne, Australia

About the role

• Staff Product Designer at Amber, transforming energy usage towards renewables through strategic design. Lead product challenges with a focus on user experience and team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Take on high priority, high ambiguity product challenges that have broad customer and business impact.
• Work across product streams, shaping problem framing, product direction, and experience principles.
• Lead discovery and research to deeply understand user motivations, behaviors, and energy literacy needs.
• Design thoughtful, scalable solutions across mobile and web that influence how customers interact with energy.
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering leaders to align on strategic decisions and ensure quality of execution.
• Raise the bar for design craft and user experience across the organization through example, critique, and shared standards.
• Mentor and support designers of all levels, without formal people management responsibilities.

Requirements

• Highly experienced, hands-on design leader with exceptional craft and product judgment.
• Ability to lead through influence and example, not management.
• Thrive on complex product challenges with energization by lifting quality of craft and decision-making across a growing organization.

Benefits

• We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and a great culture of people who love coming to work to build a better world.
• You’d be a part of a rapidly growing team of over 175 with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations.
• Be part of a growing technology start-up that will shape the future of household and grid energy use.
• Flexible working hours with provision for regular work from home arrangements and a central hub in Melbourne CBD.
• Equitable gender-neutral parental leave policies.
• An external Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) for mental health support.
• Competitive salary and share options in Amber.
• Annual Learning & Development budget to support your personal growth.
• Additional PTO between Xmas & New Year