Consumer Product Designer
Job Description
Shape how people discover, understand, and get started with Base, and build a cohesive customer experience across web, enrollment, and mobile.
Responsibilities
- Evolve the top-of-funnel experience: identify opportunities to improve discovery, understanding, and enrollment with Base
- Benchmark strong onboarding and conversion patterns and run experiments ranging from copy and design tweaks to entirely new flows
- Use conversion data to measure what works and continuously raise the quality of the experience
- Shape what’s next by identifying opportunities, exploring new ideas, and owning new features from concept through launch across the website and mobile app
- Make data-driven design decisions by analyzing product metrics, enrollment funnels, and member behavior to find friction and challenge assumptions
- Own outcomes after launch by monitoring performance against goals and applying insights to future improvements
- Build alongside design by using AI, code, and emerging tools to prototype and turn concepts into working experiences
- Simplify complex ideas so energy and the grid feel approachable and easy to understand
- Collaborate with the product design team to evolve and build design systems
- Manage multiple projects by deciding when to move quickly, when to go deeper, and how to prioritize the work that matters most
Requirements
- 2 to 4 years of product design experience, ideally focused on consumer products
- A portfolio showing strong visual craft, thoughtful interaction design, and clear problem solving
- Comfort using product metrics and analytics to understand behavior, identify friction, and make informed design decisions
- Ability to take a defined problem, explore multiple approaches, and drive a solution through launch independently
- Experience applying product data, customer insights, and experimentation to improve existing experiences and measure impact
- Comfort going beyond traditional workflows using AI and new tools, with an emphasis on what you’ve built (not only what you designed)
- Strong Figma skills, including working within and contributing to a design system
- Strong design judgment and ability to deliver exceptional work within real-world constraints
- Resourceful, curious mindset with willingness to learn new skills and find better ways of working
- Ability to share a point of view while staying open to feedback and collaboration
- Curiosity about energy, climate, or products that combine hardware and software
Technologies
- AI
- code
- Figma
About this role
- Work across the website, enrollment experience, and mobile app to improve existing experiences and build new features
- Use customer insights and product metrics to find where people get stuck and design solutions that improve usability, engagement, and conversion
- Independently explore ideas, take ownership of problems, and bring solutions to life
- Partner with engineering, growth, operations, and design to ship experiences and keep improving after launch
Team focus
- Turn complex products and technology into something simple, approachable, and trustworthy
- Support a wide range of business needs across digital experiences, physical products, campaigns, sales, events, and more
- Work across mediums to help define what Base becomes as it grows
Location
- Austin, TX (onsite)
Values
- First Principles Thinking: Question assumptions. Principles > rules.
- Operate at Base Pace: Focus on what matters, act quickly, learn by doing
- Give & Get Feedback: Be direct, be humble, maintain a growth mindset
- Everyone’s an Owner: Follow through on commitments and own results
- Strong Opinions, Loosely Held: Drive clarity and make calls with imperfect information
- Committed to the Mission: Rebuilding the grid is a big challenge; work is in-person and not a 9-to-5
- Fun & Optimism Coexist with Grit: Collaboration and celebration with the intensity of building real things
Note: Base is a startup, so priorities may shift quickly. The listed responsibilities may not be exhaustive.