Web and user interface designer

Return | REMOTE | Web and user interface designer | Part-time (12-16 hours per week)

Return (https://return.energy) is hiring a web and user interface designer who will work on platforms that accelerate the transition to carbon-free energy. Return’s main activities are building and operating industrial-size Battery Energy Storage Systems and solar plants. Our operations are located in the Netherlands, Germany, and Spain. You will be making a measurable (country-level) impact on the transition to renewable energy.

While our ventures employ over 120 people, Return’s technical team is still small (6 people). Our platform automates processes in sales, project management, procurement, construction, customer service, and energy production and trading.

During the first two years of operation, we laid the foundation for our platforms, and we are ready to scale up. This is why we are looking for an experienced web and user interface designer to elevate our UIs, websites, and other public-facing and user-facing interfaces to the next level.

You will be working on the areas that matter most to our ventures and that match your expertise and interests. Your primary focus will be to design user interfaces for web applications (mostly specialized process management tools, dashboards, and other data interfaces), design and improve our websites, and work on anything else that requires a keen eye for style, “form and function”, and usability.

Our web development stack is straightforward: Webflow for our static sites and Ruby on Rails (so basically just HTML and CSS) for our web apps, which use a mix of custom CSS and customized Bootstrap.

We are open to hiring someone with either the desire to commit for the long term or someone whose ambition it is to launch their own agency in the future, but who first wants to gain 2-3 years of experience working on exciting projects with an existing team. If you fall into the latter category, we are even willing to mentor you after you have “flown out of the nest”.

Return has offices in Amsterdam, Hamburg, Munich, and Madrid. We are very much open to working remotely as long as you live in the EU. Our hiring process is swift but thorough: a 30-minute call to get acquainted and discuss financials, one or more interviews, and a paid visit to Amsterdam to meet the team.

For this role, it is crucial to be able to demonstrate previous work and discuss how the design process worked.

The tech team members have co-founded several companies and/or have experience with remote development teams since 2008. They will personally help you through most of the recruiting process (there is no recruiter involved).