Application Guide
How to Apply for Sr. UI/UX Designer
at SCS Global Services
🏢 About SCS Global Services
SCS Global Services is a pioneering Benefit Corporation with over 40 years of experience in sustainability standards and third-party certification, operating across natural resources, built environment, food and agriculture, consumer products, and climate sectors. What sets SCS apart is its commitment to sound science and socially responsible business practices, driving positive climate impact. Working here means contributing to meaningful environmental change while collaborating with diverse stakeholders like manufacturers, auditors, and verification bodies.
About This Role
As a Senior UI/UX Designer at SCS Global Services, you will lead the design of intuitive, professional web applications that translate complex certification and audit workflows into seamless digital experiences. You'll apply modern service design principles—customer journeys, service blueprints, and human-centered design—to shape how manufacturers, verification bodies, auditors, and platform partners interact with SCS products. This role is impactful because your designs will directly enable efficient, transparent sustainability certification processes, supporting SCS's mission to advance climate action.
💡 A Day in the Life
A typical day might involve collaborating with project managers and developers to refine requirements for a new certification portal, creating wireframes and prototypes, and conducting user testing with auditors or manufacturers. You could also spend time mapping out a customer journey for a new sustainability program or presenting design concepts to stakeholders. Expect a mix of strategic design work, hands-on UI creation, and cross-functional meetings in a remote, mission-driven environment.
🚀 Application Tools
🎯 Who SCS Global Services Is Looking For
- 5+ years of UI/UX design experience, with a strong portfolio showcasing complex web applications, preferably in B2B or enterprise environments.
- Proven ability to create customer journey maps, service blueprints, and other service design artifacts that align user needs with business goals.
- Experience collaborating closely with cross-functional teams including project managers, developers, and business stakeholders to deliver design solutions.
- Familiarity with sustainability, certification, or audit workflows is a plus, but a strong aptitude for quickly grasping complex domains is essential.
📝 Tips for Applying to SCS Global Services
Highlight any experience designing for regulatory, compliance, or certification platforms—even if not in sustainability—as it demonstrates your ability to handle complex workflows.
Showcase your service design expertise by including specific examples of customer journey maps or service blueprints in your portfolio, and explain how they improved user experience.
Emphasize collaboration with developers and project managers in your resume; SCS values designers who can bridge technical and business perspectives.
Research SCS's certification programs (e.g., for food, forestry, or climate) and mention in your cover letter how you'd approach designing for their specific user roles like auditors or manufacturers.
Demonstrate a passion for sustainability by connecting your design philosophy to SCS's mission—this is a Benefit Corporation where cultural fit matters.
✉️ What to Emphasize in Your Cover Letter
['Your experience in designing complex, data-heavy web applications and how you simplify them for diverse user roles.', 'Specific examples of applying service design principles (customer journeys, service blueprints) to solve real business problems.', 'Your ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and translate technical requirements into intuitive interfaces.', 'Your motivation to work at a Benefit Corporation and contribute to sustainability through design.']
Generate Cover Letter →🔍 Research Before Applying
To stand out, make sure you've researched:
- → Explore SCS Global Services' website, focusing on their certification programs and the industries they serve (e.g., food, forestry, climate).
- → Read about their status as a Benefit Corporation and their commitment to socially and environmentally responsible practices.
- → Look up recent news or reports about SCS to understand their current initiatives and challenges in the sustainability sector.
- → Familiarize yourself with common certification and audit workflows to speak knowledgeably about the domain during interviews.
💬 Prepare for These Interview Topics
Based on this role, you may be asked about:
⚠️ Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Submitting a generic portfolio that doesn't demonstrate experience with complex, role-based web applications or service design artifacts.
- Focusing solely on visual design skills without highlighting your ability to conduct user research, map journeys, and solve systemic problems.
- Ignoring the sustainability context in your application—showing no interest in SCS's mission or the certification industry can signal poor cultural fit.
📅 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:
Application Review
1-2 weeks
Initial Screening
Phone call or written assessment
Interviews
1-2 rounds, usually virtual
Offer
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