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Our technology solutions tackle the interconnection queue backlog by significantly reducing processing times. Whether cutting transmission interconnection timelines from years to months or enabling distribution applications to be processed within a day, we help accelerate energy projects at every scale.\nOur Vision\nEnergizing the planet with a faster, smarter, and more sustainable grid.\nAbout the role\nThis position reports to the Director of Product Management and will be a core member of the portfolio team. You will be responsible for the end-to-end user experience across an assigned portion of GridUnity’s portfolio of technology products, with accountability for UX quality, coherence, and usability across individual features and the relevant products. You will partner closely with the Product Owners, Engineering, and Customer Experience to design intuitive, coherent journeys that support complex interconnection and planning activities between and across diverse customer segments.\nThis role is foundational to GridUnity’s customer satisfaction and product strategy as we continue to productize and enhance our platform in the highly regulated and operationally complex customer environments serving the energy sector. You will work alongside GridUnity's existing platform Product Designer, who owns the company-wide design system and UX standards. This role focuses on a dedicated product area within GridUnity's portfolio: you'll design within the design system, contribute patterns back to it, and partner closely on experiences where your products converge with the broader platform.\nKey Responsibilities\nOwn UX quality, coherence, and platform consistency\nOwn the definition and evolution of the user experience across the assigned set of GridUnity’s portfolio of technology products, ensuring clarity, usability, and consistency across technologies, features, workflows, and shared platform patterns.\n\nContribute to and help maintain UX patterns, interaction models, and design standards that support product scalability, reuse, development speed, as well as creating a convergence path to GridUnity’s emerging product platform.\n\nServe as a steward of UX standards and best practices, enabling consistent, high-quality experiences across teams and product areas.\n\nDefine and track UX success metrics, using qualitative and quantitative insights to evaluate experience quality and inform continuous improvement.\n\nCommunicate UX insights, risks, and recommendations to leadership to inform product decisions.\n\nTranslate insights into experiences\nPartner with Product Owners to translate product strategy, roadmap priorities, and requirements into clear user flows, wireframes, and prototypes.\n\nCollaborate with the Insights team to incorporate market, regulatory, and Voice of Customer insights into experience design.\n\nLead user-centered discovery and risk identification\nPlan and conduct user research (e.g., interviews, workflow walkthroughs, usability testing) to validate assumptions and uncover UX risks and opportunities, with an emphasis on real-world workflows, edge cases, and operational constraints.\n\nSynthesize findings into actionable design recommendations that inform product decisions.\n\nPartner through delivery and implementation\nWork closely with Engineering to ensure designs are feasible, well understood, and faithfully implemented, including consideration of edge cases, error states, data availability, permissions, and system constraints.\n\nSupport iterative delivery through design reviews, feedback cycles, and post-release UX evaluation.\n\nSupport platform evolution and long-term UX integrity\nHelp guide UX decisions during platform transitions and major product evolution, ensuring continuity for users while strengthening long-term platform usability and coherence.\n\nBalance configurability and standardization to support GridUnity’s productized approach.\n\nEnsure platform longevity through documentation, guides, and best practices.\n\nWhat you will bring\n4+ years of experience designing user experiences for complex B2B SaaS platforms or enterprise software solutions\n\nStrong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end UX work (research, flows, interaction design, and delivered product)\n\nExperience working closely with Product Management and Engineering in an Agile environment\n\nAbility to design for complex workflows, data-heavy interfaces, and expert users\n\nExcellent communication skills; able to explain and defend design decisions using evidence\n\nWhat will set you apart\nExperience designing products for regulated industries (energy, utilities, infrastructure, government, or similar)\n\nExperience with SaaS platforms that balance standardization with customer-specific configuration\n\nExperience supporting platform migrations or major product evolutions\n\nComfortable operating in a fast-moving, scaling organization where processes are evolving to match growth\n\nOUR CULTURE\nWe are a lean, fast-moving team that values bold thinking, reliability, and continuous learning. We operate with radical transparency, embrace scrappiness, and build solutions that anticipate customer needs. We also believe work should be fun and fulfilling - what we call “funfillment.”\nThe right candidate is energized by working in a scaling, mission-driven company where they can shape processes, wear multiple hats, and grow alongside the business.\nBENEFITS/PERKS\nCompetitive compensation packages that recognize your expertise and contributions\n\nRemote-first culture that provides flexibility and balance\n\nProfessional development opportunities, including training, mentorship, and career pathing\n\nComprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance starting day one\n\nShort- and long-term disability and basic life insurance at no cost to you\n\n401(k) plan with a 4% match to help secure your future\n\nFlexible PTO and a supportive work culture that values balance\n\nMission-driven work with the opportunity to make a significant impact in the energy sector\n\nELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENT\nThis position may involve access to data and systems subject to U.S. critical infrastructure protection regulations. Accordingly, this role is restricted to individuals who qualify as “U.S. persons,” defined by federal law as U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents (green card holders), asylees, or refugees.\nOUR COMMITMENT TO APPLICANTS\nGridUnity is an equal opportunity employer. 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