The Supercritical mission

Supercritical is the gateway to the carbon removal market. One third of corporate buyers including The Economist, Virgin Atlantic, and Rothschild & Co use Supercritical’s marketplace to navigate the market, build portfolios of high-quality vetted projects, and securely transact across spot purchases and offtake agreements. Supercritical is the marketplace of choice for visionary companies with ambitious climate goals that need to be met today, not decades from now. We recently raised a $13m Series A, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, to accelerate our mission to scale carbon removal to gigatonnes.

Why is carbon removal critical?

Carbon removal includes nature-based solutions like afforestation and cutting-edge technologies that literally pull carbon from the sky and store it underground for millennia. Our team of climate scientists act as an outsourced carbon removal procurement partner to our customers. They source and vet carbon removal projects from the frontier of science with a rigorous method that covers 100s of dimensions across environmental, market, and delivery risk categories.

We need to scale to remove 10 billion tons a year by 2050 to stay below 1.5 degrees of warming. This is over 14,000x the rate we are removing carbon at today. We've only removed a few thousand tonnes to date. This will be a trillion dollar industry by 2050.

About the Design Team

You’ll be the second full-time design hire at Supercritical, reporting to the Director of Design. Design works within the Product team closely in conjunction with PMs and Engineers. We’re a small but growing company, so this role will be hugely impactful in shaping both the culture of design at Supercritical — as well as the broader culture of the company.

The Role

We’re looking for a Lead product designer to join our business as we enter an exciting phase of growth. We want to find someone capable of crafting thoughtful, high-quality user interfaces who understands the importance of digital experiences as a brand touchpoint. You’ll report to the Director of Design. If you’re motivated by answering design, user, and strategic questions for the good of the planet, then you could be a great fit.

What you’ll be doing

• Designing products from start to finish, as part of our software platform (used by some of the world’s largest enterprise CDR buyers)
• Designing our main marketing website and microsites
• Designing design: As designer number 2, you'll be instrumental in defining the product design process at Supercritical
• Shaping how the world thinks about carbon removal: as a nascent industry, you’ll have an incredible opportunity to define how carbon removal is communicated
• Making tradeoffs that take into account user experience, business priorities, and engineering effort
• Working cross-functionally with Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, Sales and Climate and Supply teams to deliver products that meet customer needs
• Tackling problems as you see fit, using tools you’re comfortable with: wireframing, creating interactive prototypes, doing user research — whatever works to help solve the challenge at hand
• Sharing your work early and often in your team, and presenting regularly to the wider company