Senior Product Design Manager (Remote, US)

Who We Are

Renew Home is on a mission to change how we power the world by making it easier for customers to save energy and money at home as part of the largest residential virtual power plant in North America.

We partner with industry-leading brands to better manage residential energy for users by prioritizing efficiency, savings, and comfort — and cleaner energy for everyone.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer striving to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment where everyone feels that they have a voice that is heard.

Role Summary

Reporting to the Director of Product Design, the Senior Product Designer Manager will be responsible for managing the growing Product Design team across our consumer and partner applications. Taking on a player coach role, you’ll be responsible for supporting and inspiring our team's product development craft and helping to lead the way to a best in class product.

Renew Home has ambitious growth targets and is looking for an experienced product designer leader to help ensure progress towards these objectives. A passion for our missions will be a value add, as well as a proven track record working with cross-functional teams to deliver results.

• This is an exciting time for Renew Home. You should apply if the following define you:
• You excel at motivating and inspiring people to do their best work.
• You love being a player/coach leader. Still love being in the weeds with the work taking on projects alongside the team.
• You are relentlessly user-focused.
• You excel at both written and spoken communication.
• Your best work is done in a highly collaborative way.
• You find the right ways to balance optimizing for speed, quality, and doing risky, but interesting work.
• You have a desire to have your daily work contribute to a more sustainable future.

What You Will Do

• Manage a growing team of product designers as both team lead IC but also people manager.
• Inspire, motivate, and lead designers across experience levels to do the best work of their career.
• Partner closely with your Product Management peers to identify, shape and prioritize efforts.
• Collaborate with Renew Home’s leadership to determine design direction and process improvements. 
• Lead out in defining, creating and iterating on our core user experience, leading cross-functional discovery workshops, definitions and developing UX strategies. 
• Create service maps of core experience to ensure clarity and alignment cross-functionally. 
• Take on portions of the overall consumer application to define UX details from CUJs to UX definition to UI details alongside the Product Design team. 
• Lead the Product Design team on critiques and deliver clear and actionable feedback.

• 3+ years of people management experience 
• 6+ years of Product Design experience with an exceptional portfolio. 
• Proven track record of collaborating with Product Managers and Engineering partners to ship successful product experiences.
• Demonstrated ability to design simple solutions to complex user and technical problems.
• Fluency in Figma and prototyping your ideas to help drive alignment. 
• Low ego, holds strong opinions loosely, collaborative, and loves learning.
• Bonuses:
• Experience working with technical, algo-driven products. 
• Previous experience with a scaling organization or agency.

What You'll Get

• A competitive salary based on experience. The base salary for this role is $170k-$220k.
• Fully remote work environment with home office set-up allowance.
• Real and lived work-life balance.
• Company perks include unlimited vacation (which our C-level team actively encourages everyone to take!), parental leave, and corporate values of working sustainably and putting families first.
• Competitive benefits package that includes a full suite of wellness benefits and stock options.
• 401(k) matching.
• Opportunity to work with amazing people who are passionate about halting climate change, thriving in a fully-remote work environment, and learning and growing every day.

Not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Application Requirement

Please submit your portfolio with your application and provide password(s) for protected projects.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Individuals seeking employment at Renew Home are considered without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identification, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, veteran or military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.