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title: 'Product Design Lead at Texture'
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# Product Design Lead at Texture

- **Company:** Texture
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $191k–$224k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-01-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/texture/8c8c9041-ea0a-4904-a29e-a0396e030f79

## Job description

## THE OPPORTUNITY

You’ll be the first dedicated product designer at Texture, shaping how an entire industry transitions to modern software.

We’re building the operating system for the grid—the software layer that utilities, device manufacturers, grid operators, and everyday consumers use to manage and participate in distributed energy at scale. You’re not designing one product; you’re designing an ecosystem of interconnected surfaces for different users with different needs.

## SURFACES YOU’LL OWN

- Dashboards & Analytics: Real-time operational views, performance metrics, system health
- Maps & Physical World: Geographic visualization of device fleets, grid topology, location-aware workflows
- Enterprise Tools: Complex workflows for operators managing incidents, dispatching commands, auditing activity
- Consumer Experiences: Enrollment flows, device connection, onboarding that hides technical complexity
- Service Design: End-to-end journeys across organizations, roles, and touchpoints
- Real-Time Collaboration: Live cursors, multiplayer editing, and shared workspaces for multiple users

This is the kind of work that stretches you: data-dense interfaces that need to be fast and clear, AI-native workflows where humans and automation share responsibility, simple-feeling consumer experiences despite deep technical complexity, and enterprise tools where the stakes are real and the details matter.

## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

A designer with exceptional taste and strong instincts who can own our product's design direction and ship high-quality work at the pace of a fast-moving team.

## RESPONSIBILITIES

- Own end-to-end product design across multiple surfaces—from early concepts through detailed specs and implementation support
- Design data-heavy interfaces including dashboards, tables, maps, and timelines that make complex systems understandable and actionable
- Design AI-native experiences: conversational interfaces, intelligent suggestions, and workflows that blend human judgment with automation
- Create consumer-facing flows: enrollment, device connection, and onboarding that feel simple despite technical complexity
- Build and evolve our design system (140+ components and growing)
- Ship fast with high standards—prototype quickly, make decisions, and deliver without endless iteration

YOU MIGHT THRIVE HERE IF YOU:

- Want to own the whole thing, not just a slice
- Move quickly and make decisions without waiting for perfect information
- Are comfortable with ambiguity—can turn a half-formed problem into a great experience
- Can shift between dense enterprise tools and simple consumer flows without losing quality
- Collaborate deeply with product and engineering (not just handing off specs)
- Are comfortable being customer-facing—talking to users, understanding their needs, and translating them into the right design
- Care about craft, but care even more about shipping the right thing

## REQUIREMENTS

- 5+ years designing complex products, ideally B2B or enterprise
- Strong systems thinking and excellent visual design
- Proficiency in Figma and component-based design systems

## NICE TO HAVE

- Experience with AI/ML products, copilot-style interfaces, or generative UI
- Experience with developer tools, APIs, or platform products
- Frontend familiarity (React, HTML/CSS)
- Early-stage startup experience (0→1)
- Experience in energy, utilities, or infrastructure software

## BENEFITS

- Competitive salary and benefits
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects in the energy sector
- Collaborative and innovative work environment
- Career growth and development opportunities

## LOCATION

New York City preferred. Flexible for the right candidate.

## About Texture

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Texture is an AI-native platform that coordinates energy operations across assets, teams, and partners, acting as the operating system for the energy grid.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States (Chelsea neighborhood)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Sanjiv Sanghavi (CEO), Victor Quinn (CTO), Nicholas Alan Brown (CPO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Energy grid operations, distributed energy resources (DER), virtual power plants (VPP), grid services.
- **Target customers**: Electric utilities, VPP operators, installers, grid services companies (B2B/Enterprise).
- **Mission**: "For the people who keep the lights on" – to accelerate the energy transition by providing a unified data and operations platform.

## Products & Services
- **Texture Platform (SaaS)**: An AI-native operating system that ingests and standardizes data from AMI, SCADA, DERMS, CIS, GIS, device clouds, and market platforms. It enables monitoring of feeders, meters, and transformers; enrollment and dispatch of flexibility programs; device identification behind the meter; anomaly detection; and automated reporting and settlement.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $21.73M (seed + Series A). Most recent round: $12.5M Series A (raised ~mid-2025)
- **Notable Investors**: Equal Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, Abstract Ventures, VoLo Earth Ventures, Day One Ventures
- **Growth Signals**: 50% year-over-year headcount growth (12 employees as of mid-2025), active hiring across engineering/product/business, recent Series A, named a "Challenger" in energy data management

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native architecture** that continuously applies logic to standardized energy data.
- **Hundreds of pre-built integrations** – connects with existing utility systems without rip-and-replace (Plaid-like approach for energy).
- **Focus on interoperability** – works with manufacturers, third-party data providers, and market platforms rather than rebuilding everything.
- **Founding team with deep startup and energy experience** (ClassPass, Arcadia).

## Strategic Focus
- Expand product capabilities and integrations for VPP operators and utilities.
- Grow customer base across installers, grid operators, and device manufacturers.
- Become the de facto technology stack for the energy transition by enabling a larger, more efficient distributed energy ecosystem.

## Why Work Here
- **Flexible work**: Distributed team with remote-friendly culture; headquarters in NYC but embraces flexible work across the country and world.
- **Ownership**: Competitive cash and equity compensation for all employees.
- **Health & wellness**: 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision for employees and families.
- **Parental leave**: 12 weeks paid leave for all parents; supportive return plan.
- **Time off**: Flexible PTO with a minimum of 20 days encouraged; office closed between Christmas and New Year.
- **Engineering culture**: "Enable the builders" – world-class developer tools and a focus on engineer needs.
- **Values-driven**: Impact-oriented, move fast to grow, build for shared success, respect for the past while preparing for the future.

## Sources
1. [texturehq.com](https://www.texturehq.com/)
2. [texturehq.com/careers](https://www.texturehq.com/careers)
3. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/texture-2)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/texturehq)
5. [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/23/texture-seed-round/)
6. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/texture](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/texture)

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