Product Designer

Our Vision

WindBorne Systems is building a planetary nervous system. Atmospheric data is the biggest missing piece to improving modern forecasts — we fuse data from our next-generation, long-duration weather balloons with state-of-the-art AI models to produce the most accurate weather forecasts, faster than anyone else. Our long-term vision is to eliminate weather uncertainty, and in the process help humanity adapt to climate change, be that predicting hurricanes or speeding the adoption of renewables. The founding team of Stanford engineers was named Forbes 2019 30 under 30 and is backed by top investors including Khosla Ventures.


Your Role

WindBorne has the best data and the best forecasts in the world, and we’re building a product to bring these forecasts to real users — and inspire delight along the way. We need a visionary Product Designer to join us and redefine paradigms of interaction in an industry that hasn’t seen major innovation in decades. 

You will join a cross-functional product team within the company, working closely with our CPO, business team, and engineers alike to build ambitious visions at the forefront of technological feasibility as intuitive and insightful experiences. 

This job is not about pushing pixels around on interfaces for solved problems. You will be building the machine that builds the machine: conceiving of novel ways of delivering and acting on data and building a framework for interacting with our data- and AI-forward offerings to  generate specific, actionable insights across multiple industries. 

Who You Are

• You have experience starting from square zero and bringing a fully-fledged product to life. You’re comfortable navigating your way through every part of the design lifecycle, shepherding products from idea to UX to pixel-perfect execution and iteration with users.

• You’ve honed your craft and have the conviction to own end-to-end design for an entire team as our company grows. This likely means 5+ years of experience with prior management experience in a design org.

• You’re ready to get your hands dirty and execute every part of the design process. No task is beneath you — you’re willing to get laser-focused on the goals for the user and work as a team player to bring a product to life that’ll blow those goals out of the water. 

• You know how to realize your blue-sky vision with a concrete roadmap, ruthlessly prioritizing and executing the highest leverage features to drive user value at each stage of development.

• Your preferred way of testing new ideas is sprinting to prototypes and playing with them in the real world, building things that you can’t wait to put in front of real people. 

• You aren’t precious about your ideas. You work with the garage door open, and you care about the best solution, not who came up with it. 

• You’re a first-principles thinker excited by the idea of pushing the boundaries of how users interact with technology.

• You have a mature vision — and a high bar — for what good design looks like. You also have the capacity/experience to bridge the taste gap and create something that delights you. 

Details

• Range: 90-120k

• Location: Palo Alto, CA