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# Product Designer at Neara

- **Company:** Neara
- **Location:** Sydney, Australia
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neara/7000abfd-41d4-4b31-a258-349aaca72707

## Job description

Imagine having the power to stress-test an entire power grid against a hurricane or thunderstorm before the clouds even gather. That is the reality we are creating at Neara.

We use advanced machine learning to create engineering-grade, physics enabled digital twins of electricity grids across four continents, this helps asset owners understand their biggest challenges and bring the most viable solutions to life across millions of kilometres of infrastructure.

By simulating extreme weather and structural stress at a network-wide scale, we empower the world’s largest utilities to pinpoint risks, optimise investments and build a more resilient global energy future.

Our team is a collection of brilliant minds who are fanatical about making a tangible difference in the real world, utilising AI and machine learning to accelerate everything from data classification to complex scenario analysis. We have built a special culture where innovation thrives because everyone owns the mission and we need smart, creative people to help us scale this impact to every corner of the globe. We’re looking for a Product Designer to help us create thoughtful, high-impact product experiences; someone who can combine strong UX craft with sharp product thinking to solve complex problems in practical, elegant ways. We’re open to exceptional product designers at both mid and senior levels, and will calibrate the scope of the role to match your experience and growth trajectory. This is an opportunity for a designer who enjoys working deeply with product managers and engineers, thrives in ambiguity, and wants to help shape both product experiences and design maturity in a growing company.

Applications close 2 November.

## What you’ll do

As a Product Designer at Neara, you’ll help drive discovery and design across multiple product initiatives, increasing our ability to solve customer problems in parallel and improve usability across the platform.

- Lead end-to-end design work from discovery through to delivery across new and existing product areas
- Conduct and synthesise user research including interviews, usability testing, surveys, and workflow analysis
- Translate complex product and technical requirements into intuitive workflows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished UI designs
- Partner closely with product managers and engineers to shape solutions that balance user value, technical feasibility, and business goals
- Identify usability issues and proactively drive improvements across the product experience
- Contribute to and evolve the Nitro Design System, improving consistency and design efficiency across teams
- Help visualise future product concepts and strategic product direction through exploratory design work
- Present work clearly to cross-functional stakeholders, incorporating feedback while advocating for strong user-centred decisions

## What you’ll bring

Product design craft

- 4+ years of experience in UX or product design roles, ideally in SaaS or complex software environments.
- Strong experience across the full design lifecycle: discovery, wireframing, prototyping, high-fidelity design, and validation.
- Ability to design elegant solutions for technically complex workflows and data-rich products.

Research & problem solving

- Experience conducting user research and discovery activities including interviews, surveys, usability testing, and product analysis.
- Strong ability to break down ambiguous problems, identify unknowns, and define structured paths forward.
- Confident using user insights and design principles to explain and defend design decisions.

Collaboration & delivery

- Experience working closely in cross-functional teams with product managers and engineers.
- Comfortable navigating fast-paced startup, scale-up, or consulting-style environments.
- Able to move fluidly between tactical design execution and strategic product thinking.

Nice-to-have

- Experience designing enterprise SaaS, infrastructure platforms, or technically sophisticated B2B products.
- Experience contributing to or scaling design systems.
- Familiarity with geospatial, engineering, or data-visualisation products.

Characteristics we look for

- No-ego, outcome-oriented team players. We back each other and win together.
- Curious designers who ask thoughtful questions and seek to deeply understand users before solving.
- Pragmatic problem solvers who balance ideal design with real-world constraints.
- Strong communicators who can articulate rationale clearly across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Collaborative partners who welcome feedback and contribute positively across disciplines.
- Confident advocates for users, grounded in evidence rather than opinion.
- Self-directed operators who spot opportunities and take initiative to improve experiences.

## Why work here

- Competitive salary + ESOP. Significant career development and growth opportunities.
- Fully flexible working arrangements with a well-stocked office in Redfern.
- Highly meritocratic, non-bureaucratic, and no-ego work culture.
- The opportunity to work on complex, meaningful products and real-world problems.
- The opportunity to play a direct, critical role in the trajectory of a high growth company.
- Neara values diversity, belonging, and equal employment opportunities. We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.

## #LI-LB1

## About Neara

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Neara builds the first physics-enabled digital twin platform that models critical infrastructure networks (power grids, utilities) to simulate real-world conditions, optimize resilience, and accelerate the energy transition.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D, raised ~AUD 90M in February 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Jack Curtis (Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer) and others (exact list not fully public; co-founder team includes engineering and domain experts)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Software Development for Energy & Infrastructure (power transmission, distribution, renewables, grid resilience)
- **Target customers**: B2B – utilities (electric, gas, water), network operators, renewable energy developers, and infrastructure owners. Works with ~90% of Australian network utilities and international partners like Southern California Edison, CenterPoint Energy, ESB Networks, Scottish Power.
- **Mission statement**: Provide utilities and infrastructure owners with a physics-accurate digital twin that moves them from seeing “what is” to understanding “what if,” enabling safer, more resilient systems and better-informed investment decisions.

## Products & Services
- **Neara Platform (Physics-Enabled Digital Twin)**: SaaS platform that creates a geometrically precise, behaviourally accurate 3D model of entire infrastructure networks (poles, lines, vegetation, terrain). It runs network-wide simulations for severe weather, wildfire, flooding, load growth, and asset failure. Modules include:
  - **Resiliency & Reliability**: Assess and harden networks against storms, heat, and fire.
  - **Wildfire Mitigation**: Identify high-risk assets and prioritise intervention.
  - **Vegetation Management**: Automate clearance compliance.
  - **Design & Construction**: Simulate new feeder builds, pole replacements, and reconfigurations.
  - **Risk & Value Optimization**: Quantify investment trade-offs and regulator-ready reports.
  - **Renewable Energy & Decarbonization**: Analyse capacity for new generation connections and grid interconnection.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metrics**:
  - **Total Funding**: ~AUD 180M (~USD 150.8M) as of Feb 2026, including Series D led by TCV.
  - **Annual Revenue**: ~USD 5.2M (estimated from LinkedIn; likely conservative given headcount and funding stage).
  - **Global Reach**: Modeled over 15 million assets covering more than 3 million km across four continents.
  - **Customers**: Partnerships with global utilities including Southern California Edison, CenterPoint Energy, ESB Networks, Scottish Power, Essential Energy, Ausgrid, Powercor, SA Power Networks.
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: TCV (lead, Series D), Partners Group, EQT, Square Peg Capital, Skip Capital, Prosus Ventures, OIF Ventures.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew 73.4% YoY (176 employees from 85).
  - Active job postings: 44 (up 83.3% YoY).
  - Series D raised AUD 90M in Feb 2026 to accelerate AI/ML talent and global expansion.
  - Claims customers bring new infrastructure online 85% faster and achieve 8-9 figure cost savings.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Physics-first approach**: Unlike typical AI/ML pattern-matching, Neara’s digital twin is built on real-world physics (structural, thermal, loading, clearance) – grounding every simulation in engineering reality.
- **Single unified model**: One platform replaces fragmented point solutions (vegetation, inspection, storm, load) – all workflows feed from the same geometrically and behaviourally accurate twin.
- **Deep domain expertise**: Years working with large utilities; understands regulatory, safety, and operational constraints.
- **High switching costs**: Once a utility builds its entire operations on Neara’s model, replacing it is extremely difficult.
- **Global references**: Partnerships with marquee utilities in the US, Europe, and Australia provide credibility.

## Strategic Focus
- **Talent pipeline**: Accelerating hiring of ML and AI engineers to further develop the physics-enabled technology.
- **International expansion**: Growing commercial teams in the US, UK, Europe (Lithuania), India, and Philippines.
- **Addressing infrastructure crisis**: Focusing on data centre load growth, renewable interconnection, and grid hardening under climate stress.
- **Product depth**: Adding more solutions on the same platform (e.g., wildfire, flood, capacity, design).

## Why Work Here
- **High-stakes impact**: Work directly affects how utilities keep the lights on, prevent wildfires, and prepare for storms – real-world consequences for every line of code.
- **Engineering culture**: Deep spatial ML, computational geometry, and physics simulation – not another CRUD app. “We don’t do hypothetical,” says the careers page.
- **Global team**: 176 people across 10+ countries (Australia, US, UK, Lithuania, India, Philippines, etc.). Hybrid/remote-friendly roles observed in open postings.
- **Growth trajectory**: 73% headcount growth in the last year, 44 open roles – opportunity to shape the company as it scales.
- **Values**: “Mission-critical impact,” “engineering-grade reality,” and “high stakes, high support.” They invest in people with talent communities and a structured hiring process.
- **Notable perks**: Not explicitly listed, but emphasis on autonomy, solving ambiguous problems, and collaborative deep-dive interviews. Roles include Senior ML Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Customer Success, Product Manager.

## Sources
1. [neara.com – Homepage](https://neara.com/)
2. [neara.com – Careers](https://neara.com/company/careers/)
3. [linkedin.com – Neara Company Page](https://au.linkedin.com/company/neara)
4. [neara.com – Press Release: $90M Series D](https://neara.com/resources/press/neara-raises-90-million-to-solve-the-global-infrastructure-crisis-with-ai/)
5. [neara.com – Talent Community](https://neara.com/company/talent-community/)

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