Product Designer - Circularity Gap Solutions

Temporary, Part-time · Circle Economy Foundation

Your mission

As an experienced Product Designer, you play a pivotal role in shaping our impactful (data) products. You collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary team to create intuitive and user-centered designs, transforming complex data into accessible, actionable insights. From user research to prototyping and iterating, you ensure the products deliver value through seamless user experiences, aligned with the team's goals and mission.


Responsibilities for this role include:

  • User Research: Conduct user research, interviews, and usability testing to understand user needs, behaviors, and pain points.

  • Design Thinking: Apply design thinking principles to conceptualize and iterate on user interfaces that simplify complex data workflows.

  • Wireframing & Prototyping: Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups that align with the product vision and user needs.

  • Collaboration: Work closely with Product Managers to define requirements and prioritize features, and with Engineers to ensure seamless implementation of designs.

  • Data Visualization: Design effective and visually appealing data visualizations that help users gain insights quickly and easily.

  • Design Systems: Maintain and evolve the design system to ensure consistency across the product.

  • Feedback Integration: Gather and incorporate feedback from users, stakeholders, and team members to refine designs.

  • Usability Optimization: Continuously monitor and improve the usability of the product based on user feedback and analytics.

Your profile

It excites you to work on a (near) greenfield product and you thrive in a dynamic, international working environment. You are proactive and independent, inspire others, and make evidence-based decisions bearing in mind our common vision and agreed targets. Above all, you want to leverage your skills to create a future-proof world.


You have:

  • Proven experience (5+ years) as a digital Product (UX/UI) Designer, ideally in a data-driven environment.

  • Strong portfolio showcasing user-centered design processes and data visualization projects.

  • Proficiency in design and prototyping tools, such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, or similar.

  • Experience in user research and testing, including conducting interviews, usability tests, and surveys to gather actionable insights.

  • Ability to leverage analytics tools (e.g., Hotjar, Google Analytics, Mixpanel) to track user behavior and optimize the UX based on data-driven insights.

  • Understanding of information architecture, usability principles, and accessibility standards.

  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, fluent in English.

  • Familiarity with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript).

Why us?

Circle Economy is an impact organisation based in Amsterdam. We enable businesses, cities and nations to implement practical and scalable solutions to transition to a circular economy. Our mission is to double global circularity to 17% by 2032 since research shows that this achievement can reverse the overshoot of planetary boundaries and maintain global warming within 2 degrees Celsius.

Circle Economy consists of three different teams—Foundation, Consulting, and Solutions—each pursuing this mission based on its own strategy. This vacancy describes a pivotal position within Circularity Gap Solutions.


CIRCULARITY GAP SOLUTIONS

Circularity Gap Solutions (CGS) focuses on data-driven content & scalable products for changemakers in the public and private sector, looking to transition from the current linear economy to a circular economy. Industry and government leaders committed to ambitious climate goals struggle to implement circular solutions. While these leaders recognize the potential of the circular economy to e.g. lower extraction, reduce emissions, and drive innovation, they lack a comprehensive framework to measure, benchmark, and monitor.


As a solution, we developed the leading methodology for measuring global circularity. Since 2018, our Circularity Gap Reporting (CGR®) monitors circularity levels and provides changemakers with actionable data insights and digital tools needed to transition to a circular economy. Now, scaling our efforts is essential for accelerating global systemic change, and to take this step, we are looking for an experienced Product Designer.

 

In order to scale, we are building the world’s leading circularity database. All metrics and data on circularity will be gathered in one place, publicly accessible. This go-to platform on circularity will, amongst others, include scientifically backed data at scale, practical case studies showcasing circular success stories from all over the world (Knowledge Hub). Additionally, we run an online e-learning academy (Circularity Academy) that equips leaders with tools and resources to deepen their understanding of circularity.

 

With the upcoming launch of our circularity database and platform, anyone can take targeted action, and together, we will accelerate the transition to an economic system where the planet and all living beings can thrive.


WHAT WE OFFER YOU

For this pivotal role in our organisation, we offer starting with a 1-year contract for 32-36 hours per week, including holiday pay and pension, with the possibility of renewal. The role is budgeted at between €40.5k - 59.5k per annum based on 36 hours per week.

Candidates will be considered who apply before 3 March 2025. After this time we will only accept applications if there are insufficient candidates


Circle Economy is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

About us

ABOUT CIRCLE ECONOMY

Circle Economy is an impact organisation combining research, tools, and advice for the greater good. We were founded to create prosperity for all within the limits of our planet. With nature as our mentor, we accelerate circularity. We help businesses, cities, and nations with data-powered roadmaps for change. We are an international team of excited experts based in Amsterdam.

PURPOSE

Earth, our home, needs to be healthy, safe, and just for generations to come. We harness the world’s intelligence and collaborative drive to restore its balance. It can and must be done; we pave the way.

VISION

A circular economy meets the needs of people in harmony with nature. It designs out waste and pollution, keeps products and materials in use, and regenerates natural systems. It’s a balancing act with nature as our mentor.

MISSION

We are a global impact organisation with an international team of passionate experts based in Amsterdam. We empower businesses, cities and nations with practical and scaleable solutions to put the circular economy into action.

Our vision is an economic system that ensures that the planet and all people can thrive. To avoid climate breakdown, our goal is to double global circularity by 2032. We do this by creating:


  • An Impact-Driven Data and Evidence Base;

  • Establishing metrics for assessing circularity that embraces ecological, economical, and social indicators

  • Promoting circular solutions, innovations, and initiatives that have a positive impact on ecology, economy, and society

Actionable and Practical Strategies;

  • Building capacity of stakeholders towards the implementation of circular strategies

  • Ensuring multi-stakeholder commitment—operational, financial, and political—towards the implementation of circular strategies

  • A Digital Environment to Scale Adoption;

  • Standardising and digitising the scan approach into products and tools

  • Facilitating access to tools and knowledge through open online platforms

OUR CULTURE
We are an international team of ambitious and highly driven (young) professionals who share the belief that the circular economy creates prosperity for all. We work in a lively and dynamic atmosphere in our open office space right in the heart of Amsterdam. At Circle Economy, we have a friendly and open team dynamic and a culture of getting things done while having fun.

Circle Economy welcomes applications from all qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy and maternity,as governed under our Gender Equality Plan. Circle Economy encourages our candidates to refrain from attaching their profile photos and gender details in their resumes to mitigate any potential subconscious bias.



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