About First Street Foundation

If you’re looking to make an impact on climate change, look no further.

Climate-based disasters already cost the US billions in property damage each year and impact the quality of life of many Americans. Without the right policies and investments to mitigate and adapt to climate change these problems will only get worse.

Our mission at First Street Foundation is to make climate risk data accessible, easy to understand and actionable for individuals, governments, and industry.

First Street started seven years ago working with the world’s leading climate scientists to create groundbreaking, climate-adjusted models for Flood, Wildfire, and Extreme Heat. Our models are sensitive down to the local property and building structure.

Our models are already used by federal government agencies like Fannie Mae, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the U.S. Departments of Treasury, the Department of Commerce, the Federal Reserve Banks, and others in their assessment of climate risk to the U.S. economy.

We are now ensuring every American homeowner, home buyer, real estate agent, business, and community has access to these models through Risk Factor (riskfactor.com) and integrations with sites like Redfin and Realtor.com.

As a non-profit, we have a unique ability to always put our mission first. To fund our mission we’ve begun licensing our data to the government, institutions, companies, and individuals with amazing success.

The Role

We are hiring a UX Designer to help design new products for professionals on Riskfactor.com. You must have the knowledge and skills to assist in user research to discover key insights about our customers, product, and business and turn those insights into actionable designs that delight our customers and drive our business results. Creating products that deepen our value for real estate agents, insurance companies, real estate investors and other professionals is critical to our impact and fulfilling our mission.

You’ll report to the chief product officer (CPO), be supported by the creative director, and work closely with the CPO and a team of 4-5 engineers .

Role Responsibilities:

As the UX Designer, you will:

• Deliver wireframes, prototypes, and high fidelity mock-ups quickly and thoughtfully
• Design with conviction: assist in user research through customer calls and user testing to identify requirements, use cases, and user journeys for Risk Factor’s professional products
• Collaborate with engineering throughout the product development life-cycle to iterate on and deliver a user experience that meets the highest quality bar
• Craft and deliver presentations that drive the right design and business decision
• Work with the creative director to develop and maintain Risk Factor’s design systems to drive design consistency across our products

This role is open to Seattle-based candidates. You’ll be expected to work from our workspace near downtown Seattle 3 days a week.

Skills Needed:

• 2+ years of experience as a UX or interaction designer owning the design process from early stage ideation to high fidelity design and through launch
• A portfolio demonstrating your passion for simple, intuitive, and beautiful user-centered designs
• Demonstrable proficiency turning ambiguous requirements into simple, intuitive, and beautiful user experiences
• Experience assisting in user research through usertesting.com and directly with customers. Experience leading user research preferred.
• Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Suite. Basic working knowledge of Wordpress, HTML5, CSS3, preferred.
• Ability to communicate clearly and persuasively and influence peers and leaders

Compensation & Benefits:

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience
• Bi-annual bonus of up to 20% of salary
• Medical, dental and vision plans
• Voluntary 401K plan and life insurance
• Generous paid time off, holidays and sick leave
• 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Professional development budget
• Stipend to deck out your home workstation
• Working on the world’s biggest issue with other passionate professionals

Our Values:

• Passion: We are driven by our shared goal to fight climate change
• Inclusion: We believe the best decisions consider many points of view
• Impact: We only focus on things that move the needle
• Urgency: We move quickly because the world depends on it
• Integrity: We use open science and operate transparently
• Positivity: We are optimistic and enthusiastic in all that we do

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.