What is Sylvera anyway? 👩👨🌳
Sylvera provides carbon data for genuine climate impact. Our mission is to incentivize investment in real climate action.
Purchasing credits through the carbon markets is one of the most established and scalable ways to channel finance from the private sector to effective climate solutions and work toward societal net zero. Unfortunately, the voluntary carbon markets have been plagued with mistrust and a lack of effectiveness since they’ve emerged – until Sylvera.
To help organizations ensure they're making the most effective investments, Sylvera builds software that independently and accurately automates the evaluation of carbon projects that capture, remove, or avoid emissions. With Sylvera's data and tools, businesses and governments can confidently invest in, benchmark, deliver, and report real climate impact.
Our team is made up of leading minds in climate change from scientists to policy, finance and carbon market experts. We work in partnership with scientific organisations, universities, governments and think tanks to develop and test rigorous and holistic ratings methodologies, leveraging the latest technology. Founded in 2020, Sylvera has 150+ employees across the world with offices in London, New York, Belgrade and Singapore. We’ve raised over $96million from leading VCs like Balderton Capital, Index Ventures and Insight Partners to date.
What will I be doing? 👩💻👨💻
As a product designer, you will be responsible for maintaining and evolving the UX/UI design for Sylvera products. You will translate complex project requirements into intuitive and engaging user flows, solving challenging problems in both technical and creative ways, and working closely with engineers, product managers, and Sales. In this role, you will be both an analytical problem solver and a creative thinker who is able to implement your ideas as sophisticated prototypes and designs. The ideal candidate will be comfortable with ambiguity and experienced in using data and user research to shape design decisions. Specific responsibilities will include:
- Designing interaction models, flows, wireframes and high-fidelity mockups that demonstrate how customers will interact with our products
-Using a combination of data and qualitative user research to develop your understanding of the customer journey
- Taking the initiative to identify problems and act on opportunities to improve the product offering
- Translating complex problems into simple and intuitive solutions that meet both client and business needs
- Working with people from different disciplines to gain insights and collectively solve relevant problems
- Presenting your ideas to different stakeholders, explaining design decisions and incorporating feedback
We’re looking for someone who: 🧠💚
- Has an impressive portfolio that demonstrates end-to-end product design skills
- Is detail-oriented, yet able to step back, see the bigger picture, be flexible and embrace change
- Can manage multiple work-streams, and systematically action feedback from disparate sources
- Has at least 2 years professional experience in product design
- Is proficient in Figma-based design systems
- Is inspired by Sylvera’s mission to incentivize investment in real climate actionIs 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
- £500 WFH allowance
- No corners cut in having the best tech to do your job
- Access to Mental Health support via Spill
- Monthly team socials
Location 🌍
UK (with access to an office in London if you wanted to come in)
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 keep our focus on the long-term, even if that means short-term challenges.
Do what’s right - even when it’s hard: We take a growth mindset to our work, our customers, our market and the opportunities ahead of us.
Collaborate and challenge 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, positivity, and the willingness to get stuck in, 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.
