Top Product Design Executive plans and directs all aspects of an organization's product design and development policies, objectives, and initiatives. Oversees the design, development, and enhancement of new and existing products/product lines. Being a Top Product Design Executive stays abreast of trends in the field and ensures that all products meet the strategic goals of the organization. Requires a bachelor's degree. Additionally, Top Product Design Executive typically reports to top management. The Top Product Design Executive manages a departmental function within a broader corporate function. Develops major goals to support broad functional objectives. Approves policies developed within various sub-functions and departments. To be a Top Product Design Executive typically requires 8+ years of managerial experience. Comprehensive knowledge of the overall departmental function. (Copyright 2024 Salary.com)
About The Company
At Edacious, we believe food should be plentiful AND nutritious. As the impacts of yield-obsessed food production on human and environmental health become clear, the ability to measure nutrition as easily as we measure yield becomes critical. Why? The most nutritious food is also the most flavorful and sustainable. Our mission is nutritional transparency, and our vision is to shift the food system so it may better serve consumers, producers, and our planet.
We are chemists, designers, engineers, and systems-thinkers. We create novel hardware, software, and analysis tools for producers to understand the factors that produce more nutritious food and for buyers to know the nutritional quality of the food they buy. We are looking for teammates who are passionate about food, the food system, and human or environmental health.
Position Overview
We're looking for a design lead who's excited to wear many hats, and is motivated by solving hard problems for real people (in this case: farmers, food producers, and eaters everywhere).
Come help us build a design team that exists to illuminate the connections between climate, agriculture, nutrition, and human health. You’ll play a critical role in shaping a company where design strategy permeates everything we do, and helps the entire team ship work we’re all proud of.
This role is for a very senior individual contributor. You might have been a senior, staff, or principal designer in the past. You’ll be the second designer on the team, reporting into Alex Turnwall (Linkedin), our Head of Product and Design. The work is heavily UX and UI focused, with the expectation that you’ll be able to manage your own projects from concept to launch, bringing in our highly collaborative cross-functional teams to help when needed.
The right person is probably excited about learning in-depth food science concepts from our team—it’ll be your job to translate complex topics into products that the public can benefit from. You’re passionate about food, health, climate and/or agriculture.
While we understand the value of specialization in UX roles, we’re looking for an intentional generalist who will spend time on UI and systems design in Figma, but can flex into user research and product management. A stand-out candidate will be excited about contributing to overall product, marketing, content, and brand strategy.
Design at Edacious
We’re a software, hardware, and science company. Our tools make measurement, comparison, and understanding of food quality more accessible through a nutrition and climate lens. Great design is not only a key differentiator: we view making complex topics digestible (pun intended) through design storytelling as critical to our success.
Why we exist: there's mounting scientific evidence that the healthiest foods come from the farming practices that are best for the planet. We believe that we can use nutrition as a lever to impact climate change at scale by accelerating the demand for healthier, climate-smart foods and activate regenerative agriculture as a climate solution. In the process, we’ll help people make better health decisions, and help food producers improve their operations—both having a positive impact on climate and food system resilience.
What you're designing: we make software that takes big data from our lab and other sources and presents it to food and agriculture professionals so that they can (1) improve quality and (2) tell the story of how good their food really is. You’ll have a hand in designing software, data visualizations, services, and brand content.
Our users: are farmers and other people working in the supply chain to bring food to your table. In serving them, we also have to think about the needs of their end consumers (so, literally everybody that eats).
Our team: you'd be working daily with a team of scientists, ag professionals, and seasoned software startup folks—a pretty unique group who are excited to teach and learn from each other every day.
\nOur Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Diversity is the foundation of life and has created this beautiful world we live in. Just as nature has shown us the importance of diversity in biology, it is critical to build this diversity into our social structures. To the extent that we can build communities and teams that work in symbiotic and constructive ways, contributing to greater levels of productivity and resilience, the more successful we will be. We wish to attract diverse individuals in experience, perspective, and culture. Our company must represent the broader global food system if we are to be successful in this endeavor and so we seek to recruit and build teams that represent the beautiful diversity of people and life present on this planet.
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