Product Designer

Full-Time Anywhere

About Us

Disrupting the one-size-fits-all utility model, Inspire’s groundbreaking smart home subscription seamlessly combines personalized clean energy plans with best-in-class smart devices. Using the Inspire app, members can self drive their smart homes from anywhere, and select automated settings to use less energy while earning rewards. Inspire strives to make every home a smart home, powered by clean energy. Inspire’s mission is to drive forward a brighter energy future by simplifying consumer adoption of clean energy and smart home technologies. Through continual innovation and scaling of connected device inter-operability; clean energy supply, generation and storage; and intelligent, decentralized grid services, Inspire is building the world’s first fully-integrated clean energy company.

Launched in January 2014, Inspire homes have used the clean power production equivalent of 121 wind turbines since inception. Driven by a team of mission-driven Avengers in Philadelphia and Santa Monica,, Inspire prides itself on a culture of ownership, teamwork and stalwart obsession with “crushing it!”

About You

You sweat the details over a beautiful design without sacrificing the best possible user experience. You know design draws people in — but it should get out of the way so they can glide thru experiences like butter. You love peppering the path from A to B with moments of surprise and delight.

You’re excited to whip up lo-fi wires, hi-fi mockups and prototype on multiple platforms. You keep up on best practices for desktop and mobile. You understand design for iOS vs Android. You don’t shy away from new(er) interfaces like watches, voice, etc.

At the end of the day, you want to design user interfaces that make people weak in the knees. Designs that make other designers jealous. Designs that win awards.

** Please note: A portfolio is required to apply for this role. Please upload your portfolio with your application via the ‘Cover Letter’ attachment.

Responsibilities

  • A main focus on UI
  • Work on our app and website
  • Collaborate directly with our creative director and product team
  • Create modern, engaging design solutions
  • Build wireframes and iterative/interactive click-through prototypes
  • Design across various platforms (web, mobile, etc)
  • Give and solicit feedback from key stakeholders
  • Execute against a fast-paced, ever-adapting roadmap
  • Rapid iteration based on user testing and data
  • Deliver polished comps and assets to other team members
  • Help define our UI vision and style guides

Qualifications

  • UI focus with an understanding of UX
  • Innovative problem solving approach
  • Killer designer
  • Keen eye for color, typography, hierarchy, space & flow
  • Agile mindset
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Have contributed as a leader in design
  • Experience with end-to-end product design
  • Have shipped product
  • Master of Adobe CC, Sketch, Invision and prototyping (Principle, etc)
  • Technical understanding (HTML, CSS, javascript, etc.) and ability to effectively communicate with engineers and product managers
  • 4+ years design experience

The Perks

  • Unlimited vacation
  • Equity plan
  • 401(k) plan
  • Dog-friendly workplace
  • 2 blocks from the beach in sunny Santa Monica
  • Lots of cupcake smashing

** Please note: A portfolio is required to apply for this role. Please upload your portfolio with your application via the ‘Cover Letter’ attachment.