Description
Enphase Energy is a global energy technology company and a leading provider of solar, battery, and electric vehicle charging products. Founded in 2006, our innovative microinverter technology revolutionized solar power, making it a safer, more reliable, and scalable energy source. Today, the Enphase Energy System enables users to make, use, save, and sell their own power. Enphase is also one of the most successful and innovative clean energy companies in the world, with more than 80 million products shipped across 160 countries.
Join our dynamic teams designing and developing next-gen energy technologies and help drive a sustainable future!
About the Role
The Design Partner acts as the pivotal link between Business Units and Design teams. The role drives an experience forward, User First approach to product development by shaping compelling value propositions and ensuring design excellence. This is a dual role leading design collaboration while mentoring small/ mid-sized design teams.
What you will be doing
Creative collaboration
- Actively engaging with the respective design teams and relevant PLM + Engg teams for all the creative aspects
- Identify and engage stakeholders across Design, PLM, and Engineering
- Partner with PLMs to define goals, priorities, and release roadmaps
- Co-create visioning workshops, define deliverables, and align design planning
Design Delivery & stakeholder Management
- Manage the qualitative and quantitative aspects of design output to maintain healthy collaborative atmosphere
- Set context for design teams, break down vision into actionable outcomes
- Align design deliverables with EPICs, STORIES, and sprints
- Represent design in reviews, workshops, and leadership presentations
- Track progress, resolve conflicts, safeguard design integrity, and refine processes
Research, innovation, and Strategy design
- Building a pipeline for “innovation on tap” with early ideating and experimenting and a focus on IP creation and new paradigms in interaction design, experiences, media
- Track socio-economic, geopolitical, and tech trends for impact on business
- Curate insights into new value propositions and IP opportunities
- Facilitate ideation workshops, develop POVs/POCs, and partner with Engineering for prototyping
- Present narratives to leadership to influence product strategy
Mentoring the design team
- Review design output quality and provide actionable feedback
- Guide team skill-building and adoption of new tools, methods, and trends
- Encourage innovation, IP creation, and professional development
Who you are and what you bring
- Bachelor’s/master’s degree in design with 8+ years in UI/UX across web and mobile OR Business Management degree with strong and demonstrable track record of closely partnering with design teams
- Deep understanding of UX principles, design thinking, value proposition creation, and trend analysis
- Familiarity with business models, performance metrics, and product development processes
- Strong articulation, communication, and negotiation skills
- Ability to influence, persuade, and advocate for user-centricity
- Relationship-building with cross-functional stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications
- Combination of formal academic qualification of Design and MBA will be a definite plus
- Trained at leading design/business schools
- Exposure to Energy Management, Renewable Energy, Embedded, or Telecom domains
- Experience with global teams and diverse workstreams
- Engagement in patents, publications, seminars, or startup/academic ecosystems
- Demonstrated aptitude for new skills, tools, and emerging trends
