Product Designer

What We Do

At Root Global, we build software that helps companies across the food system achieve Net Zero emissions. Approximately 31% of global greenhouse gas emissions originate from food-related activities, making climate performance a critical business indicator. Enterprises face increasing pressure from regulators, investors, competitors, retailers, and consumers to disclose and reduce their CO2e emissions. Companies have ambitious reduction targets over the next decade, and enterprise software combined with new business processes can significantly contribute to meeting these goals.

Root Global has successfully raised over €10 million in funding within its first two years, launched an enterprise product, signed some of Europe's largest Food & Beverage players, built strong recurring revenue, and assembled what we believe is Europe's best-suited early-stage tech team. We invite you to be the next to join our journey.

What You Will Work On

Your mission

Join Root Global for a fixed-term contract (parental leave cover) of approximately 6–9 months. In this role, you will help shape and mature our product suite during an exciting phase of growth. You'll take ownership of solutions ranging from farmer-facing tools used across European markets to enterprise platforms serving some of Europe’s largest food industry players. In close collaboration with product and engineering leadership, you’ll help drive product decisions and translate complex problems into clear, scalable experiences. From day one, you’ll have real ownership and the chance to influence products that impact farmers, supply chains, and sustainability across Europe. The preferred start date is June 2026, with flexibility for an earlier start.

Over the next months you can expect

• Own the end-to-end design process: As a Product Designer at Root Global, you'll be a generalist, leading work from discovery and user research through prototyping in Figma and AI-assisted tools, all the way to collaborating with engineers to ship high-quality product experiences.
• Drive product decisions: Partner closely with product managers and engineers to shape solutions, challenge assumptions, and ensure we build the right things for our users.
• Design for real-world complexity: Create experiences used by farmers across 10+ countries (and growing), as well as enterprise teams at some of Europe’s largest food companies.
• Contribute to Root’s design practice: As part of a small and ambitious product team, you’ll help refine how we approach design, discovery, and product development.

What Success In This Role Looks Like

Success as a Product Designer means confidently taking ownership of key product initiatives and moving them forward. You will collaborate closely with product and engineering to deliver thoughtful, high-quality user experiences. Ultimately, you will leave the product and design practice stronger than you found them, with shipped features and improved workflows that continue to deliver value.

What You Bring Along

About you:

• At least 3 years of experience in end-to-end product design.
• A portfolio demonstrating previous experience across research, design, and delivery of digital products & services.
• Strong product thinking and proactive ownership, comfortable solving complex climate challenges in ambiguous situations.
• Experience working with design systems and contributing to their development.
• A desire to dive deep into the world of (sustainable) food systems.
• Fluent in English (German is a nice to have).
• Based in Berlin or willing to relocate.
• Freelance roles are welcome.

We understand that confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying. There’s no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. What truly matters is a passion for solving the problems Root Global addresses. Root Global is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and creating an inclusive environment for all employees, without discrimination based on race, colour, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.

Key skills/competency

• Product Design
• User Research
• Prototyping
• Figma
• AI-assisted tools
• Product Thinking
• Design Systems
• Sustainable Food Systems
• Collaboration
• End-to-end design