Founding Product Designer

Mangrove Systems Inc.; Toronto; Hybride; CAD 90 000 - 140 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Meaningful equity stake

Résumé du poste

Mangrove Systems Inc. is seeking a Founding Product Designer to own the platform experience, setting design standards and leading design-heavy projects end to end. You will translate dense data into intuitive workflows clients can run themselves.

You will partner with product, review UI changes, and help build a scalable design system and component library, ensuring designs are implemented correctly from concept to build. Remote or hybrid arrangements are available in Toronto.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a product designer for data-intensive B2B software.
• Portfolio showing dense data usability: tables, dashboards, workflows.
• Experience leading 0→1 design work or major improvements.
• Experience building or shaping a design system or component library.
• Hands-on research: interviews, observation sessions and usability tests to design decisions.
• Fluency in Figma and active use of AI tools to prototype and hand off.
• Experience in regulated domains is a plus.
• Accountable owner who stays with design through build.
• Systems thinker who reuses proven patterns.
• Customer-centric and understands developers' workflows.
• Opinionated, low-ego with ability to choose and commit.
• Product-minded: balance shipping and refinement.
• Credible communicator with engineers and leadership.
• Mission-aligned to accelerate decarbonization.

Responsabilités

• Own design-heavy projects end to end from framing to final screens and PR reviews.
• Partner with product on wireframes and prototypes, proposing alternatives.
• Review UI pull requests and test builds in local/preview apps.
• Ship small design PRs where valuable (copy fixes, spacing, etc.).
• Provide light project management for small features across engineering and product.
• Design systems: encode standards into repositories and expand component libraries.

Connaissances

Product design

Data visualization

Figma

AI prototyping

User research

Outils

AI tools

Description du poste

We are on a mission to accelerate the deployment of climate solutions by precisely quantifying decarbonization. We do this by developing the fabric that connects technology, policy and markets to every project developer.

Our Values

We are Tenacious

We are relentlessly focused on solving important problems for our customers that will help their carbon projects be more successful in improving the health of our climate.

We are Precise

Trust is paramount. At Mangrove we operate with surgical precision because we know that the success of our customers' carbon projects relies on their unwavering trust in our data and our platform’s meticulous ability to track CO2 and its respective emissions.

We are Thoughtful

We believe that the right solution requires a deep understanding of our customers’ needs and challenges. This understanding is manifested in every design and every solution that we build.

About the Role

As Founding Product Designer, you will own the experience of Mangrove's platform - setting the design standard, leading design-heavy projects end to end, and turning dense data into workflows that clients can run on their own.

Design Ownership

• Own design-heavy projects end to end: frame the problem, put up options, draw the final screens, and stay with the work through build via PR reviews and ongoing communication. Product owns scope and timeline; you are accountable for design.
• Partner with product on the projects it leads: build on top of product's wireframes and prototypes, propose alternatives, and drive the decision
• Take part in the review of every UI pull request, testing the build in a local or preview app before it merges
• Ship small design PRs where it makes sense: a copy fix, a spacing correction, a state that was never built.
• Provide light project management for small features and design implementations, tracking progress and coordinating deliverables across engineering and product.

Research & Self-Serve

• Watch clients and implementation engineers use the platform - for example, sitting with an implementation engineer standing up a new client and noting where they leave the UI for a spreadsheet or a script, or following a client through a week of flagged data points end to end.
• Translate those findings into scoped design solutions that let clients self-serve, and flag where design and UX can remove pain points.

Design System & Tooling

• Produce wireframes engineering can build from directly, in Figma or AI prototyping tools.
• Build and expand a shared component set, with primitives separated from feature code, so product and engineering teams build faster.
• Encode Mangrove's design standards as AI skills directly into the necessary repositories.

Qualifications & Experience

Successful candidates are likely to have the following qualifications and experiences; however, we strongly encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all of the items below.

• 5+ years of experience as a product designer on data-intensive B2B software, in high-growth or early-stage environments.
• A portfolio that shows dense data made usable: tables, filters, dashboards, charting, bulk workflows, audit trails or reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to lead 0→1 design work or significantly improve an existing product.
• Experience building or substantially shaping a design system or component library.
• A hands-on research practice: interviews, observation sessions and usability tests turned into scoped design decisions.
• Fluency in Figma and active use of AI tools (Claude, Claude Design, Claude Artifacts or similar) to prototype and hand off faster.
• Experience in regulated, compliance or audit-heavy domains is a plus.
• Accountable owner: You stay with a design until it's built correctly, not just until the file is handed off.
• Systems thinker: You reach for proven patterns and existing components first, and turn one-off decisions into reusable standards.
• Customer-centric: You're attuned to how project developers and implementation engineers actually work, and design for the jobs they need done.
• Opinionated, low-ego: You put up options, argue for one, and commit when the call is made.
• Product-minded: You know when to ship fast vs. refine, and can scope design to what engineering can build this cycle.
• Credible communicator: You're clear, concise, and confident—with engineers, clients, and leadership, in writing, 1:1, or in front of a room.
• Mission-aligned: You care deeply about accelerating decarbonization and enabling trusted climate impact at scale.

Compensation & Equity

• Meaningful equity stake

Culture & Growth

• High-impact role with direct influence on company direction
• Work with a dedicated team focused on delivering impact in key decarbonization pathways including carbon removal and low carbon fuels
• Flexible work arrangements (remote/hybrid)
• Semi-annual team on-sites in Toronto

If this sounds like you

Weʼd love to hear from you. Weʼre growing and are excited to have teammates to join us who are the best at what they do. Weʼre passionate about building a diverse team that will make a meaningful impact on the planet.