Qcells is hiringUX Designer
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This is a San Francisco based position that is currently remote and will have a hybrid schedule once we return to office. We are open to candidates willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area.
ABOUT GELI
Geli (Growing Energy Labs, Inc.) provides software and business solutions to design, connect, and operate energy storage systems ranging in size from residential to utility-scale, as well as grid-tied, microgrid, and off-grid systems. Geli’s suite of products creates an ecosystem where project developers, OEMs, financiers, and project operators can deploy advanced energy projects using a seamless hardware-agnostic software platform.
Geli is a subsidiary of Hanwha Q CELLS, one of the world’s largest photovoltaic manufacturers most recognized for its high-performance, high-quality solar cells and modules.
OUR VISION
Geli is committed to helping make the planet a cleaner, better place to live, both with our software products and through our everyday actions.
Imagine a world where there is less reliance on non-renewable power, where you source your electricity from your neighbors rather than from power stations hundreds of miles away and software makes the best possible use of the solar, wind, and battery storage available. This is our vision.
We are looking for enthusiastic colleagues that are not only fluent in technology, but also share our vision of a world running on 100% renewable energy.
ABOUT THE JOB
Geli (Growing Energy Labs, Inc) is looking for an enthusiastic UX Designer who is eager to work at the forefront of the rapidly expanding energy storage industry. As a UX designer, you will be responsible for designing the user interface and overall user experience of our products, ensuring a cohesive and user-centered design across our platform. You will collaborate with our customers, technology leaders, and product managers to understand user challenges, technical opportunities, and business needs.
The ideal candidate will be a motivated self-starter with demonstrated success in a consulting/advisory role for cross-functional teams.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Use wireframes, flow diagrams, sketches, storyboards, mockups, and high-fidelity prototypes to communicate the current or future user experience.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including UI developers, product managers, and subject matter experts to ensure user empowerment, customer value delivery, and outcomes-driven performance.
- Leverage and contribute to existing design systems, pattern libraries, corporate branding guidelines. Collaborate with corporate marketing and assist to further expand our Design System for use in data-intensive applications, ensuring its capability to scale as it grows.
- Conduct user research, interviews, and design thinking workshops to understand customer needs, mental models, and working contexts.
- Synthesize research insights to inform design decisions and create visualizations that effectively summarize key findings.
- Participate in company-wide discussions on current user interface initiatives and future design directions.
- Advocate for user-centered design, including research, design, and accessibility.
- Stay updated on emerging technology, industry, and market trends.
- Rapidly iterate on novel design solutions for new and innovative products.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of experience in UX design in a high-tech company, preferably in enterprise B2B SaaS.
- Must have a portfolio or samples of work demonstrating design rationale and process.
- Degree in design, Information Architecture, HCI, or related field.
- Strong understanding of Agile, Lean UX, and User-centered design methodologies.
- Experience working with design systems and style guides.
- Expertise in standard design, wireframing, and interactive prototyping tools such as Figma, Sketch at minimum are required. Other design tools such as Adobe XD, Balsamiq, Miro, LucidChart, Axure, InVision is preferable.
- Good knowledge of bug/issue tracking tools such as JIRA.
- Demonstrated experience in full life-cycle software development.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to navigate differing opinions on designs and guide cross-functional team members toward user-centered solutions.
- Enthusiasm for getting things done, taking personal responsibility, adding value within a team setting, and ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Ability to grasp and clearly communicate complex ideas to different audiences.
- A design thinking mindset and comprehension of human-centered design principles.
- Capacity to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously while meeting deadlines.
- Desire to learn and understand new concepts or technologies quickly.
BENEFITS OF WORKING AT GELI
Competitive salary commensurate with experience
Competitive benefits offerings
Conveniently accessible location in downtown San Francisco
Flexible work-from-home-office opportunities, as determined by the position and job duties
Cigna and Kaiser options - available by region
Cigna Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
Company Paid (Health Savings Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Cigna medical plan
Company-paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term, and long-term disability insurance
Voluntary benefits include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance
401(k) with a 4% employer match
3 weeks of paid Parental Leave
Sick time- 72 hours frontloaded per calendar year
Vacation time (Flex time), and 13 Paid Holidays
Health Advocate wellness and concierge services
Wellness programs with our benefits providers
Commuter benefits
EAP
Bereavement leave- 5 paid days
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Make a difference: join a group of people who are passionate about renewable energy
Have an impact: the company is still small enough that everyone’s contribution has a significant impact on the success of the company
Many opportunities to lead teams, and projects, and contribute to development
Casual professional working environment: there’s no need to dress up, just present your best self
Work collaboratively in a diverse environment- we commit to reaching better decisions by respecting opinions and working through disagreements
DIVERSITY
We value the insights that a diverse team can bring. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been traditionally underrepresented in tech.
Growing Energy Labs, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.
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