Opna: UX/UI Designer (Freelance)

UX Designer is needed in London, United Kingdom.

Client: Opna

Location: London, United Kingdom

Contract: Freelance

Opna’s Vision

Imagine a thriving, equitable planet where everyone actively participates and benefits from building projects that contribute to a low-carbon economy, safeguarding our environment, and combating climate change. At Opna, we are on a mission to make this vision a reality, becoming the world’s most trusted platform for climate finance. Our goal is simple: to unlock the needed capital for every high-quality climate project that addresses climate change with speed, scale, and equity.

Your Role

We are hiring our first designer to join our small product team (2 Engineers and our Head of Product). We’re building the web app used by project developers who are seeking funding for their climate projects and the corporates looking to invest in them as part of their net-zero journey.

This is a unique opportunity to help define the entire customer experience that will get us to product market fit, and then scale it. Therefore, there’s potential for this role to become permanent.

Requirements

• Take ownership: You’ll be responsible for the complete design cycle from initial discovery and user journey mapping through to the execution of final UI design details.
• Deeply understand users: You will find the best way to understand the people you’re designing for; whether that’s running user research sessions, exploring product analytics, or other methods to get to the heart of the problems you’re solving.
• Decide what’s important: Collaborate with the product team to determine the most pressing customer need and decide how to build the right thing.
• See things through: Work closely with engineers to ensure we build the thing right - troubleshoot any issues that arise and ensure that the product meets quality standards.
• Create our design ‘machine’: We’re a small team always trying to improve how we do things. Alongside product and engineering you will develop the processes that help us deliver great user experiences more efficiently.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Seasoned designer: You have a portfolio of impactful work demonstrating how you’ve solved real problems via great product thinking, user experience and visual design.
• A self-starter - You are comfortable being the first designer in the team and going from 0 to 1 with only high-level guidance.
• Customer & outcome focused - You have a history of user research and usability testing and prioritise understanding the user and their problems over fine details.
• Design chops - You’re experienced in translating design concepts into production ready assets and have strong competence in Figma and common design tools.
• Experience designing complex products - The ability to collaborate effectively with peers across the company to distil complexity into simple experiences.
• Focused & fast-moving - Startup environments are distracting. You have the ability to block out the noise and deliver effectively.
• Growth mindset - You’re comfortable working with ambiguity in an environment where we’re all learning. You embrace experimentation and failure, and actively seek feedback on your work.

Nice to have, but not essential:

• Basic knowledge of Tailwind CSS
• Experience of the carbon markets or building products in the climate space.

Our Interview Process

1. Quick video call with our Head of Product, Will McGowan
2. Project Walkthrough with Will, Shilps (our CEO) and Nico (Senior FE Engineer)
3. Meet the team
4. Final meet with Shilpika and Will