Senior Product Designer (AI Enabled): Building Digital Climate Platforms

Open Earth Foundation; Brasil; Remote; BRL 458,000 - 712,000; Full time

Job summary

Open Earth Foundation is seeking a Senior Product Designer (AI Enabled) to build and ship digital climate platforms used by cities and institutions. You will lead end-to-end design, prototype with AI, and collaborate with engineers, data teams and product leads in a remote, international setting.

The role emphasizes turning complex climate and data challenges into usable tools, with ownership of design systems and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Senior designer with hands-on experience turning ideas into working prototypes.
• Experience leading end-to-end design for complex products and platforms.
• Comfortable working in a remote, international team with async collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design of digital climate platforms used by cities and institutions.
• Own problems end-to-end from framing to shipped solution with autonomy.
• Build AI-assisted prototypes to test ideas quickly before engineering time.
• Shape a scalable design system with accessible, fast-to-build components.
• Collaborate closely with engineers and data teams to ensure feasible, high-quality implementations.

Skills

AI-enabled design

Prototyping

Figma

Design systems

Mentoring

Tools

Figma

PostHog

GA4

Job description

Senior Product Designer (AI Enabled): Building Digital Climate Platforms

Are you a senior designer who builds, not just designs, and wants your work to actually matter?

Open Earth Foundation is a California-based nonprofit on a mission to create groundbreaking technology that helps combat the climate crisis.

Our climate platforms support cities around the world with data-driven climate planning and delivery.

We’re a diverse, global team working remotely and collaborating with partners worldwide to make real change possible.

With strong funding and a powerhouse team of innovators, we’re ready to tackle big challenges for a resilient Earth for generations to come and we need the planet’s brightest minds to help solve them!

We're growing our design team and looking for Senior AI Enabled Product Designers: generalists and makers who use AI to go from idea to working prototype fast, own problems end to end, and ship alongside engineers, data teams and product leads.

This is not a research role, and it's not a role for someone who only wants to design flows in isolation.

It is a role for someone who sees design as a way to make things real.

Priority will be given to applications submitted by November 15th.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

As a Senior Product Designer at Open Earth Foundation, you will:

• Lead the design of digital climate platforms used by real cities and institutions, including a new global digital service for cities built with international partners.
• Lead projects and epics as a designer, from problem framing to shipped solution, with autonomy under ambiguity.
• Use AI to build and validate fast: turn ideas into working prototypes, test them, and iterate before committing engineering time.
• Bring product thinking to every decision, balancing user needs, technical constraints, partner expectations and impact.
• Help shape the design system that keeps our products consistent, accessible and fast to build.
• You'll help turn complex climate, urban, and data-heavy challenges into tools people can actually use.
  

Responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end design of features and products using Figma as the primary design tool.
• Build AI-assisted prototypes to explore ideas, test assumptions and align stakeholders quickly.
• Translate complex problems and datasets into clear, accessible interfaces and flows.
• Run lightweight validation (usability tests, quick interviews, analytics review with tools such as PostHog or GA4).
• Collaborate closely with developers to ensure feasibility and quality implementation.
• Contribute to and evolve our design system: components, patterns, documentation and design-to-code consistency.
• Have created or managed design systems or are eager to develop that expertise, including reusable components, design foundations, accessibility, and documentation.
• Communicate design rationale clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, including external partners.
• Mentor and support other designers and collaborators when needed.
• Able to maintain and support in the product development cycle, both ongoing and from scratch (i.e.: helping to define a design system or UI kit together).

How We Work:

• Remote-first , async-friendly, highly collaborative.
• This position is international.
• Schedule flexibility is expected, with willingness to collaborate during overlapping hours of 8am-11am PST.
• LATAM time zones or availability within ±3 hours of ART (GMT-3) are strongly preferred.
  

The Ideal Candidate:

We're intentionally looking for someone who:

Is an AI-enabled designer

• Already uses AI as part of how they work, not as an experiment.
• Has built functional prototypes, tools or MVPs with AI-assisted tools (e.g., Claude, Cursor, Replit, Lovable, Figma MCP, or similar).
• Cares about responsible and ethical use of AI.
  

Is a versatile product designer. A generalist, not a specialist

• Moves comfortably between strategy, UX, UI, prototyping and implementation support.
• Favours lightweight, pragmatic validation over lengthy research processes, learning by building and testing.
• Is comfortable wearing different hats when the team needs it.
  

Is a startup-minded maker

• Has worked in startups, scale-ups or small, fast-moving teams,