Amber
Energy
Staff/PrincipalProductDesigner
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“Staff/Principal Product Designer at Amber. Skills: Product design, Design systems, User experience, Interface design. Take on highest priority product challenges. Shape design direction on new horizon projects”
What You'll Achieve.
Raise the overall bar of product experience quality
Industry & Context.
Problem framing; Ambiguous problem spaces
Based in Australia, Work in Melbourne time zone
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
10+ years of experience in product design, 3+ years operating at Staff or Principal level, Designing mobile and web experiences at scale, Experience shipping for hundreds of thousands of users, Ability to bring order to ambiguous problem spaces, Comfortable in room with PMs, engineers, and execs, Move decisions forward without needing authority, Visual and interaction craft, Excited by the problem Amber is solving, Currently or very recently worked at Staff or Principal Product Designer level, Full working rights in Australia
Nice to Have
Experience with V2G technology
What You'll Do.
Take on highest priority product challenges
Shape design direction on new horizon projects
Work across product streams
Shape problem framing
Shape product direction
Shape experience principles
Lead discovery and research
Understand user motivations
Understand user behaviours
Understand energy literacy needs
Design scalable solutions
Influence how customers interact with energy
Partner closely with Product and Engineering leaders
Align on strategic decisions
Ensure quality of execution
Raise bar for design craft
Raise bar for user experience
Bring structure to complex spaces
Bring clarity to ambiguous spaces
Define problem before solution
Guide teams toward impactful opportunities
Deliver industry-leading UX
Deliver industry-leading UI
Model interaction clarity
Establish patterns and approaches
Synthesize research into product direction
Synthesize market signals into product direction
Synthesize data into product direction
Synthesize qualitative insights into product direction
Connect customer needs to commercial realities
Connect customer needs to regulatory realities
Connect customer needs to energy-market realities
Facilitate alignment across Product
Facilitate alignment across Engineering
Facilitate alignment across Data
Facilitate alignment across Operations
Communicate design reasoning with clarity
Communicate design reasoning with confidence
Support teams through trade-offs
Support teams through complexity
Improve how design works at Amber
Uplift others through coaching
Uplift others through partnering
Uplift others through hands-on examples
Operate as a multiplier
Act with high independence
Hold clear sense of responsibility
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional complexity; Product and Engineering leaders; Product, Engineering, Data, Operations
Communication Scope
Communicate design reasoning
Full Job Description
## Description ⚡About Amber Amber is an entirely new way to buy and sell power, designed for a world powered by renewable energy. We give customers direct access to the real-time wholesale electricity price as it varies every 5 mins and the technology to shift more of their energy usage to the times when cheaper renewables are available in the grid. It’s a cheaper way to buy power, a smarter way to sell power, and the fastest way for Australia to reach 100% renewable energy. We are a clear category leader in Australia for home battery automation and are growing rapidly (over 80k customers). We have also recently expanded into licensing our core technology to utilities overseas, including a partnership with E.ON Next in the UK. Amber is backed by top Australian and international investors including Square Peg, Main Sequence, Breakthrough Victoria, Commonwealth Bank, NRMA, Gentrack, ETF Partners (UK/Europe based), and E.ON Next. We are scaling rapidly and you’d be joining a team of over 200 committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and purpose-driven culture as we transform a major industry. Our products are reshaping home energy: Amber for Batteries cuts bills by exporting stored energy at wholesale prices of up to $20/kWh, and Amber for EVs enables the cheapest, cleanest charging. In 2026, we will push this even further with our new vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology. 💻 About the role Amber is transforming how people access and use energy — helping customers shift usage to times when renewable energy is abundant and affordable, and export to the grid when it has the highest impact. It’s one of the fastest ways Australia can get to 100% renewable energy, and we’re building the products that make that shift easy and rewarding. We're hiring a Staff or Principal Product Designer — the most senior IC designer on the team. This isn't a role for someone stepping into Staff for the first time. We're looking for someone who's already there: a designer with deep craft, sharp
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