Application Guide

How to Apply for Senior Product Designer

at Green Project

🏢 About Green Project

Green Project uniquely focuses on making sustainability data accessible and actionable for businesses through specialized B2B SaaS tools. Unlike generic tech companies, they embed environmental impact directly into their product mission, offering designers the rare opportunity to apply user-centered design to climate solutions. Their remote-first culture combined with a clear sustainability focus creates meaningful work that aligns with both professional growth and personal values.

About This Role

As Senior Product Designer, you'll lead end-to-end design for Green Project's carbon accounting and ESG reporting tools, translating complex sustainability data into intuitive user experiences. This role is impactful because your designs will directly help businesses measure and reduce their environmental footprint at scale. You'll shape both the product experience and the internal design culture by evolving their design system and advocating for accessibility and sustainability principles.

💡 A Day in the Life

You might start your day reviewing usability test findings for a new emissions tracking feature, then collaborate with product managers to refine requirements based on those insights. After a design sync with engineering to discuss implementation feasibility, you'd spend the afternoon updating Figma components in the design system and preparing for a co-creation workshop with sustainability experts to align on user needs for upcoming ESG reporting enhancements.

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🎯 Who Green Project Is Looking For

  • Has 5+ years designing B2B SaaS products with experience translating complex data or compliance requirements into clean, user-friendly interfaces
  • Demonstrates expertise in Figma for both rapid prototyping and high-fidelity design handoffs, with portfolio examples showing iterative design processes
  • Shows experience conducting user research specifically for business users (not just consumer products) and can articulate how insights informed design decisions
  • Has worked with design systems in previous roles and can discuss how they maintained consistency while allowing for product evolution

📝 Tips for Applying to Green Project

1

Tailor your portfolio to highlight B2B SaaS projects, especially those involving data visualization, compliance, or complex workflows relevant to carbon accounting

2

Explicitly mention Figma proficiency in your resume and include specific examples of how you've used it for both discovery prototypes and engineering handoffs

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Research Green Project's existing products and suggest one specific UX improvement in your cover letter that aligns with their sustainability mission

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Prepare to discuss how you've advocated for accessibility in previous roles, with concrete examples beyond basic WCAG compliance

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Highlight any experience with sustainability, ESG, or environmental data in your application, even if it's from personal projects or volunteer work

✉️ What to Emphasize in Your Cover Letter

["Demonstrate understanding of Green Project's specific mission by connecting your design philosophy to their sustainability goals", "Provide a concrete example of how you've led design for a complex B2B product from concept to delivery, emphasizing collaboration with product and engineering", "Explain how you've evolved design systems in previous roles and your approach to balancing consistency with innovation", "Share your experience facilitating design workshops or co-creation sessions, specifically mentioning how you've aligned stakeholders around user needs"]

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🔍 Research Before Applying

To stand out, make sure you've researched:

  • → Explore Green Project's existing products (if publicly available) and identify one specific user experience challenge in their current interface
  • → Research the competitive landscape of carbon accounting and ESG reporting tools to understand how Green Project differentiates itself
  • → Learn about key sustainability frameworks like GHG Protocol, SASB, or TCFD that businesses use for reporting to understand user context
  • → Investigate Green Project's company culture through their blog, social media, or employee reviews to understand their remote work practices

💬 Prepare for These Interview Topics

Based on this role, you may be asked about:

1 How would you approach designing a feature that helps businesses track Scope 3 emissions (indirect emissions) given the complexity of data sources?
2 Describe a time you had to advocate for accessibility or inclusivity in a product design when stakeholders were focused on speed or cost
3 Walk us through how you would conduct user research for a new ESG reporting module targeting sustainability managers at large corporations
4 How do you balance maintaining a design system with the need for innovative solutions in a fast-growing product environment?
5 What metrics would you track to measure the success of a redesign of Green Project's carbon dashboard, and why?
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⚠️ Common Mistakes to Avoid

  • Submitting a portfolio focused primarily on consumer apps without demonstrating B2B or complex data visualization experience
  • Using generic design process descriptions without specific examples of how research informed your decisions for business users
  • Failing to show understanding of Green Project's specific sustainability mission or treating it as just another tech company

📅 Application Timeline

This position is open until filled. However, we recommend applying as soon as possible as roles at mission-driven organizations tend to fill quickly.

Typical hiring timeline:

1

Application Review

1-2 weeks

2

Initial Screening

Phone call or written assessment

3

Interviews

1-2 rounds, usually virtual

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