Product Designer at Sylvera

WHAT IS SYLVERA ANYWAY? ‍👩‍👨🌳 Sylvera helps organisations make confident decisions in carbon and commodity markets. We independently assess the quality of carbon projects, track market pricing and supply signals, and provide geospatial and carbon intensity data — giving our clients the clarity they need to invest in real climate action. We're a team of 130+ scientists, engineers, and market experts based across London, New York, São Paulo, Singapore, and Tokyo. Our work spans market intelligence, geospatial analytics, multi-scale lidar research, and policy analysis. We partner with governments and policymakers to raise the bar for transparency and rigour across carbon markets. Backed by over $96 million from investors including Fidelity, Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, and Insight Partners, we're trusted by Fortune 500 companies, major financial institutions, and governments worldwide. If you care about climate, enjoy solving hard problems, and want to work with people who take the mission seriously — we'd love to hear from you. WHAT WILL I BE DOING? ‍‍👩‍💻👨‍💻 We're looking for a Product Designer to join our Product team, owning design across Sylvera's carbon markets product pillar and supporting our marketing team with brand and campaign work. The core of this role is product design. Sylvera's platform turns messy, uncertain carbon project data into something people can actually make decisions with. This is a high-impact individual contributor role where you'll ship real work from week one. You'll work closely with our Lead Product Designer. As a team of two at a startup, we both own the Sylvera brand and support marketing when it counts. Product comes first, but when the marketing team needs design support, we deliver. AI-powered tools like Claude Code, Figma Make, and Lovable are standard parts of our workflow - not a nice-to-have. SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE: - Product design - Own product design for Sylvera's carbon market product pillar from 0-1 discovery and throwaway prototypes through to shipped, polished experiences - Design data-dense interfaces: dashboards, pricing tools, portfolio views, comparison tables, monitoring pages, and geospatial maps - Work directly with PMs and engineers to ship work that's both useful and crafted - Participate in customer research alongside PMs, bringing design thinking to discovery and validation - Marketing Design - Support the marketing team with reports, email banners, website assets, social graphics, and sales enablement materials - Step up during major publications like the annual State of Carbon report, where marketing design demand spikes - Contribute to brand evolution as the design function grows - How We Work - AI-powered design workflows are standard here, not a nice-to-have - You'll collaborate closely with Jake (Lead Product Designer) through regular crits, async Figma feedback, and ad hoc design conversations - We ship in fixed time, flexible scope. Speed and craft aren't opposites here - they're both expected WE’RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO: 🧠💚 - Has 3+ years of product design experience covering both UX and UI - Has worked in B2B SaaS, ideally on data-heavy products (dashboards, analytics, trading platforms) - Thinks about what data means and what action it should drive, not just how it looks on screen - Is strong in Figma and comfortable working within an established design system - Can handle marketing design work to a professional standard when needed: reports, banners, social assets - Uses AI tools in their everyday design workflow - Has strong visual craft - your work looks polished and intentional, not just functional - Cares deeply about the climate and ecosystems of the earth - Is a self-starter who thrives in constantly evolving environments, ideally with early-stage experience We’d like someone highly ambitious, motivated and eager to propel their career forward. We prioritise grit, positivity, and the willingness to get stuck in, and encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match this job description. BENEFITS 💰 - Equity in a rapidly growing startup - Private Health Insurance and Life Assurance - Unlimited annual leave - and encouragement to actually use it! - Enhanced parental leave - Up to 20 days paid sick leave - No corners cut in having the best tech to do your job - Access to Mental Health support - Monthly team socials LOCATION 🌍 London, hybrid with 2-3 days/ week in our office in Shoreditch. We work flexibly but encourage people to come to the office regularly, especially for 1-2-1, retros and divisional meetings. OUR VALUES 🙌 - Own it: We make new mistakes. We build on the momentum of our wins and reflect on and learn from our failures. - Stay curious: We take a growth mindset to our work, our customers, our market and the opportunities ahead of us. - Do what’s right - even when it’s hard: We keep our focus on the long-term, even if that means short-term challenges. - Collaborate with empathy: Our teams deliver through active collaboration. We invest in each others’ success and make the company stronger in the long-run. - Empower Customers - Make extraordinary efforts to exceed our customer expectations. If we’re serving our customers to the fullest, we can help direct more investment into real climate impact. WHAT IF YOU’RE A PARTIAL FIT? 🌱 We prioritise grit and positivity and encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match this job description. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY 🌈 Sylvera is an equal opportunity employer: we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. AI NOTE-TAKERS 🤖 We sometimes use AI note-takers to help us transcribe interview notes, so we can be more present in your interview. If you'd like to opt out of us using automatic transcribers, please note this in the free text field in your application, otherwise we'll take your application as confirmation that you're happy for us to use notetakers (whether added to video calls or in the background).