Principal UX Designer Job at GoodLeap in San Francisco

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$190,000.00/yr - $215,000.00/yr

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Technical Recruiter @ GoodLeap | Strategic Human Resources | U.S. Marine Veteran

Principal UX Designer

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 $27 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 need an experienced Principal UX Designer to help us realize the next generation of our product portfolio. As a Principal UX designer, you’ll develop a deep understanding of our users, inform product strategy, and deliver exceptional experiences across critical product surfaces. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to translate user insights into actionable design solutions, ensuring that our products not only meet user needs but also push the boundaries of innovation.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Define and own the design direction and vision for key product surfaces, setting the vision for the near, medium, and long term to ensure a cohesive and impactful user experience across all touchpoints.
• Work closely with product, design, and engineering leadership to help shape and execute the vision for GoodLeap's product portfolio, ensuring we’re delivering high-impact solutions.
• Deepen our understanding of customers and end-users by leading research and analyzing data, helping to inform decisions that improve the products we build.
• Foster growth within the design team, supporting individual development and encouraging a collaborative environment where creative thinking thrives.
• Champion design across the organization, 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

• Set vision and strategy: Define and articulate long-term design directions for complex product areas, ensuring design excellence contributes directly to business growth and customer success.
• Drive impact across business units: Lead design efforts that span multiple products, platforms, or initiatives—creating coherence and elevating the overall quality of the user experience across the ecosystem.
• Elevate design standards: Establish and evangelize best practices in interaction, visual, and service design; set the bar for design craft and user-centered innovation across the organization.
• Mentor and amplify others: Serve as a trusted coach to senior designers and cross-functional peers, multiplying the impact of design talent across teams.
• Demonstrate expertise in learning about our users: Champion effective user research, ensuring insights deeply inform strategy and are operationalized across product development.
• Innovate through experimentation: Drive a culture of rapid prototyping and hypothesis-driven design, piloting breakthrough ideas that inspire the organization and redefine customer expectations.

$190,000 - $215,000 a year

In addition to the above salary, this role may be eligible for a bonus and equity.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Design and Information Technology

• Industries

  Financial Services and Energy Technology

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