Senior UX/UI Designer

Seeking an entrepreneurial software designer to innovate in cleantech, focus on decarbonization projects with travel to Boulder office.

Black Bear Energy, a Legence company

Black Bear Energy is a technology-enabled, commercial buyer’s representative specializing in onsite renewable energy. In the past seven years, Black Bear has helped its clients bid out over 1,000 clean technology projects in more than 20 states through its data driven process. We educate and empower our clients to decarbonize their built environment by deploying onsite solar, battery storage and other cleantech projects

LOCATION: Remote (Colorado preferred; required to visit Black Bear corporate office in Boulder periodically)

Travel: 10%

Summary: We are seeking an experienced and entrepreneurial designer to join Black Bear's software team. The designer will be responsible for transforming our product roadmap into tangible features, experiences, and workflow improvements. Every step of the way, the designer will collaborate with our full-stack software engineers to design the custom platform we are currently building. The ideal candidate is a generalist with experience working in a startup or on small teams. They are energized by the freedom to innovate, and excel at crafting solutions from the ground up with minimal guidance. Commitment to understanding the business pipeline is essential for success in this role. Alongside the Product Manager, the designer will engage with all Black Bear team members to decipher existing workflows and propose new designs.

Key Responsibilities:

Work with the product manager to create wireframes, storyboards, and hi-fi drawings for new products and features
Manage and conduct interviews with team members to understand existing workflows
Collaborate with software team to determine product prioritization and timeline
Design multiple solutions and conduct A/B testing with internal and external stakeholders
Identify and help resolve workflow cobwebs and inefficiencies by designing better processes
Standardizing inconsistent existing interfaces with modern design principles
Design user interface for client platform
Redesign user interface for existing software products
Contribute to branding and marketing efforts for software team and Black Bear team at large

Preferred Experience and Skills:

Experience creating UX/UI design, working directly with engineers in small, collaborative teams; startup experience preferred
Strong communication skills and the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable information
Comfort with ambiguity and a “figure it out” attitude
Experience creating cohesive design systems that can be applied across existing software products, with demonstrated ability to audit and standardize inconsistent interfaces
Knowledge of modern design handoff tools, such as Figma, and component-based design systems
Portfolio showing successful B2B or enterprise software designs, particularly in energy, cleantech, construction, or similarly complex technical domains where data visualization and analytics are key components
Experience overhauling and designing user workflows from scratch
Knowledge of modern web technologies and responsive design principles
Experience conducting user research and usability testing with business stakeholders and technical users, with ability to translate findings into design improvements

We are unable to provide immigration sponsorship for this position.
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Health and Welfare Benefits

Medical
Dental
Vision
Prescription drug
Short and long term disability
Parental leave

Personal Benefits

Flexible paid time off
Personal days
Company-paid holidays

Financial Benefits

401(k) retirement savings plan
AD&D insurance
Life insurance

About Legence

Legence, a Blackstone portfolio company, is an Energy Transition Accelerator™ that provides advisory services and implementation focused on financing, designing, building, and servicing complex systems in mission-critical and high performance facilities. With five decades of expertise in the built environment, Legence has a proven track record of reducing carbon emissions, implementing renewables, lowering utility costs through efficiency consumption, and making systems run better at unmatched speed and scale. To learn more about Legence and its services, visit https://www.wearelegence.com/.

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