UI/UX Designer

UI/UX Designer

Location: Berkeley, CA / Remote US. Full-time.

“The battery is the technology of our time.” -The Economist

Voltaiq is an Enterprise Battery Intelligence software company. Our data platform brings unprecedented analytics, visualization, and predictive capabilities to any company with a battery-powered business model. World-leading brands — including global automakers in Detroit and Germany, household-name tech giants, and decacorn startups — depend on Voltaiq software to accelerate product development, optimize performance, ensure safety and reliability, and unlock financial value in their products. Our high-powered team is composed of battery industry veterans, PhD scientists, a highly skilled product and engineering team, and an advisory board of C-level industry execs, all of whom are passionate about enabling the global energy transition. Voltaiq is headquartered in Berkeley, CA, serving customers around the world.

The Role:

At Voltaiq, we enable battery researchers and applications engineers to explore and visualize battery performance data, alongside metadata describing how those batteries were made and operated. As a UI/UX Designer, you will work with the Product Manager to design the user-facing side of a web application offering powerful data search, processing, visualization, and advanced workflow functionality. You will learn how battery data is used to improve the performance of mobile devices, electric vehicles, and the power grid. You will design dashboards and other interfaces presenting performance statistics to our customers. If you love data visualization and delightful user experiences, and you are passionate about helping to accelerate the global transition to sustainable energy, then this is the job for you!

Responsibilities:

• Design user experiences that are simple, coherent, and powerful.
• Understand the evolving needs of our customers, and how these are served by the product.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Customer Success and Engineering teams to assess effectiveness and feasibility of designs.
• Test and validate designs with our user community through usability testing of wireframes, clickable prototypes and shipped product.
• Help define and integrate a visual identity into the Voltaiq platform.
• Maintain a cohesive set of UI/UX principles, strategies and patterns that extend across our platform.
• Develop user personas through collaboration with Product Management.
• Map out our users’ conceptual model and design the site information architecture.

• Find creative ways to solve UI/UX problems and display complex data visually.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in user-centered interface design for web applications.
• Proficiency with visual design tools, such as Figma, Invision, and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Experience with data visualization, including charting libraries such as D3, C3, and Plotly.
• Experience designing interactions for enterprise workflows.
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
• Strong user empathy; ability to find creative solutions to UX problems and user pain points.
• Strong teamwork and mentorship skills.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written. Comfortable with remote work and communicating effectively through real-time text, audio, or video chat.

Competitive salary plus equity and full benefits. Our office is located in Berkeley, CA.

Voltaiq is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to achieving a diverse workforce through application of its equal opportunity and nondiscrimination policy, in all aspects of employment.