Lead Product Designer

Afresh is on a mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all. Our first A.I.-powered solution optimizes ordering, forecasting, and store operations for fresh food departments in brick-and-mortar grocers. With our Fresh Operating System, regional and national grocery retailers have placed $1.6 billion in produce orders across the US and we've helped our partners prevent 6.9 million pounds of food from going to waste. Working at Afresh represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive social impact at scale by leveraging uncommonly impactful software – we hope you'll join us!

As a product designer, you will work closely with design, product, and other key stakeholders to create impactful experience for our users. We are looking for someone who is excited about leveraging design to drive product direction, cares deeply about affecting global change, and gets excited about tackling new challenges.

What will you be doing?

• Deeply understand our customers and their workflows in order to design user-facing tools for our iOS or web products;
• Run an end-to-end design process from user research to high-fidelity prototypes and mockups in order to build products that create value while inspiring adoption;
• Work directly with our customers in the field to understand their needs and validate product direction;
• Collaborate with the other members of the design team and cross-functionally with Product Management and Engineering to realize our product vision;
• Help to establish and maintain a design language and toolkit that will be used by the entire team and company.

What skills or experience do you need?

The following represent the skills and experience our ideal candidate possesses. We encourage all highly-qualified candidates to apply, even if they do not fulfill all the listed criteria.

• 6+ years of full-time end-to-end product design experience
• The desire to dive into an industry with huge problems and opportunities in an effort to drive transformational change
• Proven track record and portfolio demonstrating the ability to design successful user experiences
• Command of HTML/CSS, or another presentation-layer framework (nice-to-have)
• Strong communication skills and inquisitive disposition
• Alignment with our core values: Kindness, Candor, Proactivity and Humility

About Afresh

Founded in 2017, Afresh is working on the #1 solution to curb climate change: reducing food waste. By combining human insight and transformative technology, we're helping grocers provide fresher food to customers at more affordable prices.

Afresh sits at an incredible intersection of positive social impact, rocket ship financial growth, and cutting-edge technology. Our best-in-class AI research has been published in top journals including ICML, and we've raised over $30 million in funding from investors including Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors and James McCann (former CEO Tesco, Ahold, Carrefour). In 2021, we received an Honorable Mention for Fast Company's World Changing Ideas in Food.

Fresh is the past, present, and future of our food system – the waste we create today will impact our planet for years to come. Join us as we continue to build a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team that embodies our company’s values of proactivity, kindness, candor, and humility.

Afresh provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.