Staff Product Designer

Locations: Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart, Australia Remote

Electricity grids are undergoing the most significant transformation in a century. The shift to renewables, the proliferation of rooftop solar, batteries, and EVs, and the increasing complexity of distribution networks are forcing utilities to operate their grids in fundamentally new ways.

Gridsight builds the analytics platform that makes this possible. We're already embedded with most of Australia's major distribution networks and have contracts with some of the largest investor-owned utilities in the United States. We're well-funded, growing quickly, and positioned at the centre of a global shift toward dynamic grid management.

The Role

We're hiring our first full-time product designer: a senior IC who will shape how utilities see and operate their networks.

This is not a typical SaaS product design role. In most SaaS, the interface is the essence of the product, so a designer can reason about the whole thing through what's on screen. At Gridsight, the core of the product lives underneath: pipelines of time-series data, transformations, and the concepts that turn billions of raw meter readings into meaning. This role demands reasoning from the data outward, treating the interface as an expression of that system rather than its definition.

The unit of design here is the reusable primitive, not the screen. Our customers rarely need an answer designed; what needs designing is the capability that produces answers. The right building blocks solve today's problem but also the next ten variations of it. Quality comes from economy rather than polish: the right symbols, primitives, and conventions exposing more of the product through less surface area. You'll own the visual language of how a utility reads its own grid: how a feeder, a fault, or a load profile renders as something a power engineer can interpret at a glance.

You'll embed with our product squads day to day, and you'll be the strongest voice for the experience dimension in a product org where the best solutions are co-developed across experience, data, and technology. This is a senior role by necessity: the ambiguity is too high for someone who needs direction. And it's a role with room to grow in many directions including building and leading the design function.

AI-assisted work is the norm at Gridsight, not the exception, and design is no different: we're looking for someone already using AI to amplify their discovery, exploration, and output and who is energised by how fast that frontier is moving.

What You'll Do

• Embed with squad PMs and engineers to ship design on our highest-priority products
• Take roadmap items that carry high-level solution thinking and bring them to life as lean, economical solutions
• Lead discovery on greenfield products, getting close to the customer and the problem before the shape of a solution is set
• Develop and maintain the product's conceptual model and visual language: the reusable concepts, primitives, and conventions that hold across our products
• Contribute to high-level solution design with product and engineering leadership, helping express the product vision as an efficient architecture of reusable capabilities
• Raise the floor on what ships, with lightweight design review that stops poor design going out the door
• Over time, help shape what the design function at Gridsight becomes

What You'll Bring

• Systems thinking and conceptual modelling as your core skill; you build concepts and meaning out of messy, abstract domains (this is not "design systems" of buttons, cards and dropdowns as that is an existing conceptual model)
• The ability to translate complexity into simplicity; you can express large, interlocking concepts in a form a customer, an engineer, or an executive can immediately act on
• Comfort reasoning below the interface; you're at home when most of the product is data, transformations, and domain concepts
• Your best work at low fidelity; wireframes, models, a solution described in a sentence. We value high fidelity skills, but exceptional conceptual clarity has more leverage than exceptional visual appeal
• Discovery as a default; you get close to customers and problems without being asked, and you've enjoyed domains with a steep learning curve
• Enough seniority for ambiguity; you self-direct, bring a formed point of view, and earn its adoption through your work
• Product-first thinking; you optimise for the best overall solution across experience, data and technology

You may currently be titled a product designer, a UX architect, an information architect, a design engineer, a product manager on data products, or even a data scientist with a design practice. The title matters less than your experience and the way you think.

The fast track is founding designer experience in a scaled product company, otherwise we expect you have a few laps under your belt.

What Would Set You Apart

• Experience with data products, developer/API products, or enterprise B2B
• Experience in technical domains: energy, infrastructure, geospatial, or scientific tooling
• A formal education that trained abstraction: design theory and HCI, or mathematics, computer science, engineering or economics
• Experience as a founding or sole designer in a product company

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and equity package
• Remote-first, with head office in Sydney
• A talented team of engineers, data scientists, and power systems specialists working on hard problems that matter
• The chance to define design at Gridsight from the ground up