Senior UX Designer - GoodLeap

Job Title: Senior UX Designer
Job Location: San Francisco, CA
Job Listing URL: https://jobs.lever.co/goodleap/b6593b96-a028-4ab8-8968-92e21308dcb3
Job Description: About GoodLeap:
GoodLeap is a technology company delivering best-in-class financing and software products for sustainable solutions, from solar panels and batteries to energy-efficient HVAC, heat pumps, roofing, windows, and more. Over 1 million homeowners have benefited from our simple, fast, and frictionless technology that makes the adoption of these products more affordable, accessible, and easier to understand. Thousands of professionals deploying home efficiency and solar solutions rely on GoodLeap’s proprietary, AI-powered applications and developer tools to drive more transparent customer communication, deeper business intelligence, and streamlined payment and operations. Our platform has led to more than $30 billion in financing for sustainable solutions since 2018.

GoodLeap is also proud to support our award-winning nonprofit, GivePower, which is building and deploying life-saving water and clean electricity systems, changing the lives of more than 1.6 million people across Africa, Asia, and South America.

At GoodLeap, we build technology that makes sustainable home upgrades attainable—and we’re looking for a talented Senior UX Designer to help us evolve our product portfolio. As a Senior UX designer, you’ll work closely with cross-functional counterparts to understand our users’ needs, contribute to product strategy, and design user-friendly experiences across key product areas. You’ll help translate user insights into practical design solutions, ensuring our products are intuitive, impactful, and innovative.
Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities
Inform the vision and drive the execution of UX design within key product surfaces, working closely with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to deliver cohesive, high-impact user experiences that align with business goals.
Lead complex design projects from concept to implementation, ensuring the highest quality design standards are met and delivering seamless, intuitive user experiences.
Deepen our understanding of customers and end-users by conducting user research and developing insights, helping to inform decisions that improve the products we build.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, contributing to high-level discussions on product strategy, feature prioritization, and roadmap development.
Champion the user throughout the product experience, advocating for user-centered thinking and ensuring that design is always at the forefront of product decisions, from strategy to execution.
Required Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
Demonstrated ability to design simple, elegant solutions to complex user problems, balancing aesthetic quality with user needs and business goals to create scalable, effective designs.
Strong eye for detail in visual and interaction design, with expertise in modern patterns and trends.
Comfortable defining and using actionable metrics to evaluate the success of design decisions.
Practical understanding of user research methodologies, with experience conducting qualitative user research and developing actionable insights.
Expertise with prototyping and rapid iteration, to demonstrate and assess interaction and functionality decisions
Strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to articulate design direction and decisions clearly, ensuring alignment across teams and contributing to a shared product vision.