Senior Product Designer

Gro Intelligence is tackling two of the biggest problems facing the world today: food security and climate change. We understand and quantify the complex interplay between food, weather, trade, agriculture, and macroeconomic conditions in a world upended by climate change, a growing population, and more. The team at Gro has built a platform that allows businesses, non-profits, and governments to better plan for and adapt to these changes. With offices in Nairobi, New York, and Singapore Gro has the financial backing of prominent investors such as TPG Growth, Intel Capital, Data Collective, and GGV. Gro is a diverse, intellectually curious team of technologists, scientists, and business professionals united by a shared commitment to build AI that addresses agriculture, food, and our climate on the most fundamental level.

This role is for you if you’re a product designer passionate about data visualization. In this role, you, the product team, and analysts will partner to solve complex user experience problems of visualizing and interacting with large amounts of agricultural and climate data to deliver decision-making tools, and applications. 

What You'll Do

• You will help drive user-centered strategy and design solutions to deliver our growing body of decision-making tools and applications.
• Keeping the user journey in mind you will partner and iterate with product managers to Discover, Define, Design, and Deliver intuitive and efficient UX/UI/Data Viz experiences for our enterprise users.
• Create appropriate levels of prototypes and mockups to demonstrate solutions to various stakeholders and facilitate frictionless handoffs by working closely with engineering leads.
• Support the development and maintenance of our growing design system to ensure a consistent user experience and an efficient development process for designers and engineers
• Develop and nurture relationships across teams and disciplines

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years plus Masters OR 5+ years plus Bachelors
• Experience as a UX/UI or product designer, crafting solutions for B2B / Data Analytics / Financial products.
• Master's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience
• A strong portfolio demonstrating a deep understanding of the user-centered design process and experience in design strategy, information architecture, interaction design, and data visualization.
• Experience in wireframing and prototyping in Figma and working in Agile or Lean Start-up methods.
• A solid ability to communicate the rationale for design decisions through verbal and written explanations, sketching, or quick mockups 
• Strong presentation skills and ability to plan and lead visioning sessions
• Must be comfortable working independently, work on numerous projects simultaneously, and prioritize accordingly
• Working knowledge of current web-based technologies and frameworks (e.g. CSS, Angular, React) to inform design decisions
• Ability or have a strong desire to learn/understand how data works either under the hood.
• Desire to mentor junior designers

Nice to Have

• Experience in conducting user research
• Experience in creating visualizations in Power BI, Tableau, or Observable 

Compensation

The salary range for this role is expected to be $115,000-$180,000. Other compensation for the role includes equity, a generous PTO policy and health, vision & dental insurance.

Gro was founded in 2014 and currently has offices in Nairobi, New York, and Singapore. The company was built on diversity and the knowledge that artificial intelligence is only as good as the human intelligence behind it. Gro’s team represents the world it is modeling. At the company, we speak more than 27 languages and we comprise a wide range of experts, from agronomists and crop scientists, to mathematicians, engineers, data scientists, market research analysts, designers, historians, and philosophers. Our culture fosters collaboration between people of extremely different backgrounds that allows us to accomplish things that would otherwise seem impossible. 

Gro Intelligence is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants regardless of color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, actual or presumed belonging to an ethnic group, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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