[Hiring] Senior Product Designer @Virtual Peaker

Virtual Peaker; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 40.000 - 60.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A renewable energy solution company is seeking a Senior Product Designer to shape user experiences for their innovative products. This remote position involves collaborating with product management and engineering to create effective designs, conducting research, and crafting interactive prototypes. Ideal candidates have 7+ years of experience in UI design, proficiency in tools like Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, and a passion for renewable energy solutions.

Leistungen

Competitive salary

Equity

Remote-work stipend

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Generous vacation and sick leave

Qualifikationen

• 7+ years work experience in user interface design for web and mobile applications.
• Ability to communicate design concepts through sketches and wireframes.
• Experience designing for responsive web applications.

Aufgaben

• Lead product design and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Conduct user research and usability testing.
• Create wireframes and prototypes to define user interactions.

Kenntnisse

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Wireframing

Prototyping

User Interface Design

Ausbildung

Bachelor's or master's degree in relevant field

Tools

Miro

Other design tools

Jobbeschreibung

Aug 07, 2025 - Virtual Peaker is hiring a remote Senior Product Designer. Salary: competitive salary + equity. Location: USA.

Senior Product Designer

Virtual Peaker is looking for a Senior Product Designer that will help solve the climate crisis by supporting our mission of building the utility of the future. The intermittent nature of wind and solar energy makes it much harder for electric utilities to keep the grid in balance. Renewable energy is going to save humanity, and Virtual Peaker is part of the solution.

Job Description

As the Senior Product Designer you’ll work with product management, engineering and other stakeholders to shape how the product evolves to meet the needs of our customers and their end users. You will be a lead designer and a key member of the product development team, working closely with product & technology management, development teams and other cross functional team members to research, define, design, prototype and refine concepts into rich and interactive user experiences, for all Virtual Peaker products and services.

Role Responsibilities

• Work closely and rapidly with Product Management to help identify needs, rapidly build prototypes, test and iterate, to design best solutions
• Work closely with product management team to translate research insights into UX and UI solutions that meet customer and business needs
• Facilitate and participate in customer and end-user research/synthesis
• Lead usability test and validation sessions with end-users and focus groups.
• Work closely with Marketing and brand teams to define consistent iconography, brand and design language across products and marketing material
• Use appropriate skills (sketching, prototyping and specification) to define and communicate interaction concepts
• Design and create information architecture, application flows and application screen wireframes
• Rapid paper prototype generation to demonstrate user and application flows
• Define, design and apply interface and interaction principles and frameworks
• Generate UI concepts through rapid sketches and lead group brainstorms and design reviews
• Generate low and high fidelity visual prototypes to demonstrate UI solution concepts
  

Other Responsibilities:

• Participate in product feature and capability ideation and definition process with Product & Technology Management
• Present design work to cross-functional teams and leadership for review and feedback
• Stay up to date with industry changes and competitive landscape
  

Education & Experience

An ideal candidate will have some combination of the following:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Arts, Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Media Arts or similar field
• Past user experience and visual design work for both desktop and touch interface devices
• 7+ years work experience crafting user interface design in web, mobile-web, iOS and Android apps
• Ability to communicate design concept ideas through sketches, wireframes and paper prototypes
• Highly fluent in Figma, Adobe creative Suite, Miro and other design popular creative tools
• Ability to prototype in Figma or other prototyping tools.
• Experience in designing for responsive web applications

Nice to Have:

• Interest, experience, and passion for clean energy, renewables, smart home technologies and smart grid systems

What to expect

• Full remote position, with remote-work stipend.
• Competitive salary + Equity
• A collaborative workplace, which will challenge you and celebrate your work
• Full benefits medical, dental, vision, 401k
• Generous vacation time, sick leave, and holidays
• Diverse and inclusive community for everyone

Interested?

Virtual Peaker is currently a small remote-first team tackling huge problems, and that means that everyone, from the interns on up, are critically important to our mission. If you want to be a bit player on a huge team thinking about micro-optimizations, this role is definitely not for you. If you want to take responsibility for changing the outcome of human civilization, we want to hear from you.

Competitive Salary

Benefits: stock options, generous 401k, remote-first stipend, and health, dental, and vision insurance.

Location: Remote