About Brighte
Our mission is to make consumer energy resources (CER) affordable and accessible for everyone.
Brighte is building the platform to enable and accelerate the energy transition by making it affordable, easy and less risky to buy and sell energy equipment.
Our founder and CEO, Katherine McConnell, has been awarded Telstra Businesswoman of the year in 2020 as well as winning the Sustainability Crusader award at B&T's 2023 Women Leading Tech Awards. She is a passionate and humble leader who has a human first approach to business.
As a business in 2025, we have been named a AFR Sustainability Leader within the Banking and Finance category and won the inaugural Sustainability Award at the Affies in 2024!
About the Role
As a Product Designer at Brighte, you’ll bring ideas to life through thoughtful, user-centric design. Sitting in our Product & Design team, you’ll collaborate with product managers, engineers, and researchers to design experiences that are both elegant and impactful. Reporting to the Director of Creative Design, you’ll contribute to Brighte’s design system, help refine the craft of design across the team, and ensure our products delight customers while supporting Brighte’s strategic goals.
What You'll Do
- Design impactful experiences across Brighte’s platform, from research and concepts through to polished, production-ready UI.
- Champion our users by translating customer insights and data into intuitive, accessible design solutions.
- Conduct user research and usability testing to gather insights on user needs, pain points, and behaviors; synethesise findings into action plans.
- Shape Brighte’s design system by contributing patterns, components, and guidelines that scale across products.
- Prototype and test concepts to validate ideas and guide decision-making.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and business teams to define problems, explore solutions, and deliver value quickly.
- Advocate for design craft and raising the bar for visual quality, interaction and usability.
What You'll Bring
- Proven experience designing digital products (ideally in B2B, SaaS, fintech, or marketplace environments).
- A portfolio showcasing strong visual design, interaction design, and user experience skills.
- Ability to run design processes end-to-end: discovery, ideation, prototyping, testing, and delivery.
- Familiarity with modern design tools (Figma, FigJam, prototyping tools).
- Comfort working in agile, cross-functional teams.
- A balance of system thinking and craft detail and the ability to design for scale while sweating the small stuff.
- Curiosity, collaboration, and a genuine interest in accelerating Australia’s clean energy transition.
What's in it for you?
- Flexible working arrangements to suit individual needs and a hybrid work model. Our office is designed for collaboration, creativity and balance between office engagement and remote flexibility. Our in-office days are Monday through Thursday (4 days), with Friday as a remote day.
- Free lunch! Yes, there is such a thing! Kickstart your week with our Monday Mingle meaning lunch on us and great company. From tacos, to sushi, to charcoal chicken, it's a delicious way to catch up, unwind and connect.
- Get social. We host a range of social activities at Brighte. A fan-favorite being our weekly Thursday social event, where you can catch up with colleagues over a drink, snack and a game of table tennis.
- We want our employees to share in Brighte’s success. You may be given an opportunity to join our Employee Share Option Plans (ESOP).
- Snacks galore – who doesn’t love that? Our thoughtfully stocked pantry includes snacks to suit your every mood. Fresh bread, protein bars, popcorn, fresh fruit, chocolate, soy crisps, cookies – you name it! We also offer a carefully curated collection of wines and beer on tap for those looking to unwind or enjoy a social moment.
- End-of-trip facilities. Cycle in to work, lock up your wheels and have a shower in our end-of-trip facilities, which come complete with towel service and hair dryers.
- Anniversary leave - your dedication at Brighte won’t go unnoticed. Enjoy an extra day to celebrate your work anniversary with us.
Diversity and Inclusion
At Brighte, we celebrate diversity and encourage you to bring your whole self to work. Our inclusive culture is the foundation of our innovative and dynamic environment.
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Named LinkedIn’s #10 Top Australian Start Up (2021), we know we wouldn’t be anywhere without our investors, who believe in our mission and the opportunities that lie ahead for a brighter future.
Airtree Ventures, Grok Investments, Kim Jackson and Scott Farquhar’s Skip Capital, and Qualgro Partners all continue to support Brighte in making this dream a reality!
If you want to join this mission-driven, inclusive, and highly collaborative team, click apply and upload your resume! All applicants will receive a response.
As part of our process, we require all candidates to undertake references and background checks, which include a police check, anti-money laundering and bankruptcy checks.
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Glassdoor
Don’t just take our word for it. Here’s what people are saying on Glassdoor.
“Simply the best place. you wont regret here. Lot of stuff to do and learn and you're free to do so.”
“Heaps of opportunity to grow exponentially. Working with Katherine is an experience in itself. Fast paced not startup anymore.”
“Friendly people, efficient team, good career opportunity”
“Good working environment and work-life balance.”
Acknowledgement of Country
Brighte acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the traditional custodians of our land - Australia. We pay our respect to them and their cultures and to the elders past, present and emerging. The Gadigal of the Eora Nation are the traditional custodians of the land on which Brighte’s office stands.