Senior Product Designer (AI-Enabled)

As a Senior Product Designer at Open Earth Foundation, you will lead the design of our open-source climate platforms used by cities and institutions around the world, including a new global digital service for cities built with international partners. You are a generalist and a maker: you move from problem framing to shipped solution, and you use AI tools such as Claude, Cursor, Figma MCP and similar to prototype, validate and build faster without lowering quality. You combine strong product and UI judgment with hands-on making, turning complex climate, urban and data-heavy problems into tools people can actually use. Everything we do is Open Source, shared freely with the world, to maximize the impact of our work.

You will be part of the Product Design team and work directly with engineering, data, product management and business development team members, as well as external partners.

This position is fully remote and international as our organization works across different time zones.

• Schedule flexibility is expected, with a willingness to collaborate during overlapping core hours for meetings.
• LATAM time zones or availability within ±3 hours of ART (GMT-3) are strongly preferred.
• Experience with asynchronous remote work and the ability to self-organize tasks is preferred.

Essential Functions and Specific Duties:

• Lead the end-to-end design of features and products, from problem framing and concept to high-fidelity design and delivery
• Lead projects and epics as a designer, making decisions with autonomy under ambiguity and evolving requirements
• Design intuitive, accessible interfaces and flows using Figma as the primary design tool
• Translate complex problems and datasets into clear interfaces, flows and data visualizations
• Run lightweight validation (usability tests, quick interviews, analytics review with tools such as PostHog or GA4) to inform decisions
• Collaborate closely with developers to ensure feasibility and quality implementation
• Contribute to and evolve the design system: components, patterns, documentation and design-to-code consistency
• Communicate design rationale clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, including external partners
• Collaborate with team members from other disciplines such as engineering, data engineering, product management and business development

AI-Enabled Design Duties:

• Regular, proficient use of AI tools to prototype, explore ideas and accelerate design workflows (e.g., Claude, Cursor, Replit, Lovable, Figma MCP or similar)
• Ability to build functional prototypes or small tools with AI assistance to test assumptions before committing engineering time
• Good judgment on when AI output is correct, when it needs editing, and when to design manually
• Responsible and ethical use of AI in design and product decisions

Other:

• Mentor and support other designers and collaborators when needed
• Create supporting design materials when needed (decks, reports, product visuals)
• Actively participate in team building and culture development activities at Open Earth Foundation

Qualifications:

• Formal training in product design, UX, HCI, engineering or related fields, or equivalent on-the-job experience
• 5+ years of work experience as a Product Designer, UX Designer or similar role
• Track record of owning and shipping digital products
• Generalist profile with strong UI proficiency (this is not a research, UX writing or service design role)
• Portfolio showing problem-solving, ownership and shipped outcomes, including demonstrated high-quality work built or prototyped with generative AI

Interpersonal Skills:

• Clear, confident communication in written and spoken English
• Ability to work in an agile environment with a mix of full-stack developers, data engineers, product managers and other designers
• Comfortable giving and receiving feedback
• Communication skills necessary to document and present work and design decisions
• Effectively perform asynchronous work with a high degree of self-organization and proactive problem solving

Tools & Knowledge:

• Figma (advanced: components, variables, auto layout, prototyping)
• AI-assisted design and prototyping tools (Claude, Cursor, Replit, Lovable, Figma MCP or similar)
• Product analytics tools (PostHog, GA4 or similar)
• HTML/CSS and frontend concepts, for collaborating with developers
• Accessibility standards (WCAG)

Other Competencies:

• Rapid prototyping and lightweight validation methods
• Data-heavy products, B2B/B2G SaaS or data visualization
• Using Linear for project management (or similar tools like Jira)

Bonus Experience:

• Creating or owning a design system (tokens, Figma variables, component libraries mapped to code, documentation and governance)
• React and component libraries such as Chakra UI
• Product Management or Product Owner experience
• Startup, climate tech, civic tech or open-source experience
• Spanish or Portuguese

Other Qualities:

• Dedication to fighting climate change
• Focus on impact
• Interest in non-profit work