Technical Design Lead

Design Team Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of the organization’s design system, overseeing its development, evolution, and maintenance.
• Continuously expand the design system by adding new components, patterns, and guidelines to ensure it remains comprehensive and up-to-date.
• Define and establish design system processes that the design team adheres to, ensuring a consistent and efficient workflow for design system integration.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers and product managers, to streamline the integration of design components and principles into the product development lifecycle.
• Educate and train design team members on how to effectively use and contribute to the design system.
• Align design system initiatives with the overall product strategy.

Agile Production Team Responsibilities:

• Create production designs for team-specific product work.
• Create, collaborate, and iterate on flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals.
• Conduct feasibility reviews, research sessions, and usability testing and present findings.

Your qualities and experience

• Several years of experience as an in-house UI/UX/Product Designer on a complex, enterprise or B2B SaaS product.
• Multiple years of experience updating and maintaining style guides and component libraries in Figma.
• Works at a high standard of creativity, curiosity, craft, and quality.
• Mentors and supports junior colleagues with knowledge, humility, and encouragement.
• Leverages prototyping skills to demystify designs for other teams, especially in cases where interactions may be particularly nuanced.
• Highly proficient in Figma variables
• Comfortable leading design for large projects and driving understanding from cross-team colleagues.

Nice to have

• Experience designing data-heavy applications in the Finance, Energy or Sustainability industries.
• Prior experience in a startup environment.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Optera is committed to creating a diverse environment that is safe and welcoming to all. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We take this very seriously and expect that you do too.

Benefits

• Unrestricted PTO and flexible work schedule
• Recharge Fridays: Every other Friday off
• Health insurance including dental and vision
• Short and Long term Disability Insurance
• 16 weeks maternity/paternity leave (12 weeks paid)
• Wellness budget
• Monthly Wifi Stipend
• Budget for home/office workstation
• Professional development budget
• 401k with 4% company match and ESG investment options
• Company-wide Bonus program
• Colorado Eco-pass (regional bus pass)

Location: Boulder, CO preferred; remote considered

Position: Full-time

Salary: $134,000 – $157,000 plus bonus and option for equity