Product Designer

About GIST Impact

GIST Impact’s vision is a sustainable tomorrow: a world in which everyone measures what matters. Our mission is to help investors and companies measure and manage their impacts on all stakeholders, not just shareholders. GIST Impact is a leading impact data, analytics and product solutions provider that has been measuring, and quantifying and valuing corporate impacts for more than 16 years.

With a team of 100+ scientists, engineers, data scientists, product managers and environmental economists, GIST delivers market-leading platforms, datasets, covering 14,500+ companies with geographically precise, time-series data, along with market leading impact valuation engines (e.g., APIs) which can be leveraged by customers to measure impact.

GIST Impact works with pioneering companies across all sectors and with investors representing over $8 trillion in assets under management. GIST Impact also partners with some of the world's largest ESG data providers, business networks, and fintech platforms to enable impact measurement across global markets.

Founded by Pavan Sukhdev (ex-banker, environmental economist, President of WWF International, and winner of the 2020 Tyler Prize for the Environment), GIST Impact is at the cutting edge of measuring impacts using a scientifically sound and economically rigorous methodology that provides unique and unparalleled insight into how companies impact society and the environment. In addition, our leadership team comprises product, technology and commercial leaders who have worked across Meta, Adobe, AT Kearney, Bain & Co., McKinsey & Co., Monitor Deloitte, etc.

Role Description
As a Product Designer at GIST Impact, you will be crucial in designing user experiences that transform complex data into actionable insights for B2B and B2B2B products. Your role will involve creating intuitive and visually compelling interfaces for data analysis, portfolio views, data experiences, and data catalogues.

Role and Responsibilities

• Customer Understanding: Collaborate with the product team to understand our customers' needs, empathise with them, and develop creative solutions that support sustainable decision-making.
• Concept Development: Explore multiple ideas and develop concepts for products and features with distinct value propositions.
• Visual Identity: Develop a visual identity, brand language, and set of design principles across GIST’s main products, aligning with GIST’s vision and target audience.
• Interface Design: Iteratively redesign the interfaces and workflows of GIST’s product suite, leveraging UI/UX research methodologies to enhance user experience.
• Team Collaboration: Work closely with client, product, and engineering teams to ensure a balanced delivery of GIST’s capabilities, customer needs, and business value.
• Data Experience Design: Design intuitive and engaging user experiences for data analysis, portfolio views, data experiences, and data catalogues.
• Co-Creation: Prepare for and participate in customer co-creation sessions, developing mock-ups and new features for testing.
• Customer Experience Improvement: Continuously seek opportunities to improve the customer experience, propose new features/solutions, and validate assumptions through customer research.

Required Skills and Experience

• Empathy: Ability to understand and share the feelings of users, ensuring a user-centred design approach.
• Creativity: Innovative thinking to develop solutions and product features that enhance data interaction.
• Collaboration: Strong team player with excellent communication skills to articulate design solutions and align with stakeholder requirements.
• Proactivity: Organised and people-oriented, with a proactive approach to identifying and solving design challenges.
• Adaptability: Flexibility to adapt to evolving project requirements and customer feedback.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience: 2-4 years of hands-on experience in designing data-driven products and platforms, particularly within the financial and investment sectors or similar fields involving data visualisation.
• Tools: Proficiency with prototyping tools such as Adobe XD, Figma, Sketch, and Framer.
• Technical Skills: Working knowledge of HTML, Bootstrap, Angular (preferred), VueJS, React, and Ionic.
• Design Skills: Strong visual design abilities to establish a cohesive product identity across all offerings.
• Communication: Excellent communication skills to articulate design solutions, navigate stakeholder requirements, and build consensus.
• Experience in Data-Intensive Environments: Experience in developing interfaces for B2B or B2B2C SaaS platforms, particularly those involving data analysis and visualization.
• Start-up Experience: Experience working in a start-up environment is preferred.
• Agile Methodology: Familiarity with agile methodology and working in cross-functional collaborative teams.