Why Patch, why now
Patch exists to rebalance the planet by making environmental commodities easier to understand, trust, and buy at scale. Our platform routes hundreds of millions of dollars into carbon removal, renewable energy, sustainable aviation fuel, and other environmental markets. We're building the operating system for how these markets work.
We are an AI-native services firm. Our embedded climate strategists deliver outcomes for enterprise customers. Our platform makes each strategist dramatically more productive and each new market cheaper to scale.
Today we deliver through dashboards, decks, and analyst workflows. Tomorrow it will be conversational interfaces, agents, or formats that don't exist yet. The person shaping these surfaces needs to be designing and shipping, not waiting for handoffs.
About the role
You'll be the dedicated product designer. You'll work directly with engineering, climate strategists, brand design and leadership to design how Patch's platform works for both internal experts and enterprise customers.
This role sits at the intersection of complex domain problems (environmental commodity markets, portfolio construction, diligence workflows, transaction infrastructure) and modern product patterns (AI-assisted interfaces, structured data visualization, real-time operational tools). You'll own design end-to-end: problem framing through production code. We primarily hire for senior scope but welcome exceptional candidates at any level.
How we work
Patch's Engineering, Product and Design org operates with high trust and high standards:
Empowered accountability: Clear goals, inspected trust, and early detection of misalignment.
Customer proximity: Our climate strategists sit next to our builders. Feedback loops are measured in hours, not sprints.
Urgency without recklessness: The planet doesn't wait. We ship everyday, learn fast, and raise the bar continuously.
What you'll do
Own the design of customer-facing and internal product surfaces across Patch's platform, from environmental commodity research workflows to portfolio dashboards to transaction infrastructure
Ship code. Prototype in production. You don't need an engineer to validate an idea.
Embed with our climate strategists and customers to observe real workflows. The question we ask constantly: what did a strategist do manually today that should be a platform capability tomorrow?
Act as DRI on design initiatives, from scoping through delivery
Design interfaces where AI does material work: summarizing diligence, constructing portfolios, surfacing market signals. Make the AI's contributions visible, trustworthy, and useful
Continue to mature Patch's design language and component system.
What success looks like
First 90 days: Ship meaningful design improvements to existing workflows. Build relationships with climate strategists and customers. Establish a working rhythm with engineering. Identify the highest-leverage design problems on the platform.
6 months: Own the design direction for a major product area. Deliver at least one 0-to-1 product surface. Measurably improve strategist productivity or customer experience through design.
What we're looking for
Product ownership: You define the problem, design the solution, and ship it. You don't wait for a brief.
Code fluency: You've committed production code and you liked it. You can prototype and build in a codebase, not just in Figma.
AI-native workflow: You use AI tools daily in your design process. Generative design, AI-assisted prototyping, AI coding tools. This isn't aspirational for you, it's how you already work
Systems thinking: You can look at a complex domain (markets, transactions, organizations, inventory) and design interfaces that make the structure clear without dumbing it down
Operational design chops: Experience designing information-dense, workflow-heavy tools (fintech, enterprise, data platforms). This is not a consumer app
Collaborative accountability: Direct communication, strong opinions loosely held, preference for being a DRI over a contributor
Comfort with ambiguity: The domain and markets we operate within are evolving rapidly. You find that exciting, not paralyzing
Compensation and benefits
Salary: $170,000-$230,000 annually
Equity: Meaningful stock options
Culture: Mission-driven team in San Francisco with bi-annual offsites
Time off: Time-off-as-needed vacation and generous parental leave
Wellness: Monthly stipend for mental and physical health