About Class 3 Technologies, Inc. We're building the foundation of climate resilience. Our mission is to bring clarity where there's confusion: giving enterprises, institutions, and investors the intelligence to turn climate risk into resilience. Backed by Powerhouse Ventures.
About the role
We're hiring our first design leader to own how people experience our brand and products, starting with Iris, our climate risk platform. Iris turns engineering-grade hazard and damage modeling into decisions made by executives, operations teams, finance leaders, and consultants, most of whom are not risk modelers. The core of this role is translation: taking outputs that are technically defensible and making them understandable, trustworthy, and actionable for the people who need to act on them.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years in design with real leadership scope, spanning user experience, interaction, and visual design
- Experience designing complex, data-heavy products that turn technical material into actionable insights for non-expert decision-makers, in climate, risk, science, finance, or an adjacent domain
- A portfolio that shows the range: shipped product and identity systems, with the thinking behind why each works
- Fluency in modern design tooling (Figma, component-based systems) and genuine curiosity about AI-assisted design workflows
- Strong writer: narrative and microcopy are part of the system, not someone else's job
- Experience directing other designers or external partners without doing all the execution yourself
More about this role
We're hiring our first design leader to own how people experience our brand and products, starting with Iris, our climate risk platform. Iris turns engineering-grade hazard and damage modeling into decisions made by executives, operations teams, finance leaders, and consultants, most of whom are not risk modelers. The core of this role is translation: taking outputs that are technically defensible and making them understandable, trustworthy, and actionable for the people who need to act on them.
Much of your time will go to the Iris experience: how complex results unfold for different roles, how confidence and uncertainty are communicated, how recommendations connect to action, and how we design the journey from understanding risk to actually reducing it. Scores with no confidence behind them no longer survive scrutiny in this industry; design that earns trust is part of the product, not decoration. User experience, interaction, and visual design all work together here, in service of one thing: convincing and enabling people to act on the insights.
The brand is the thread that ties it all together. The way risk reads in a report, a one-pager, or a conference booth should be the...
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