Product Designer

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What We Do

The CHARM team at Texas A&M AgriLife Extensions’ Disaster Assessment and Recovery (DAR) Unit provides education, outreach, and planning support for communities around the state of Texas, focusing on approaches that foster collaboration and holistic solutions to reduce risks from floods and other hazards. Central to our approach is the engagement of community staff, elected officials, and decision-makers in interactive planning exercises. Leveraging data-driven methodologies and innovative tools, such as our award-winning GIS-based scenario planning software, CommunityViz, we facilitate collaborative and community-centered sessions aimed at envisioning a future that can withstand future disasters and challenges. Operating within the largest university-based extension program nationwide, the CHARM team is uniquely positioned to deliver highly impactful community planning applications and services.

Your Role

The Product Designer designs intuitive, user-centered online mapping tools that make resilience planning and decision-making more accessible for communities of all sizes. Reporting to a Staff Product Designer, this role collaborates closely with GIS and planning teams, developers, and stakeholders to support CHARM Online Studio, a geospatial platform that enables non-GIS users to explore data, map scenarios, and document land-use and hazard mitigation decisions. The Product Designer contributes across the full design lifecycle—including user research, wireframing, prototyping, usability testing, and developer handoff—and plays a key role in delivering high-impact tools that support real communities along the Gulf Coast and beyond.

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To Apply

Please send a resume or CV and portfolio to diamond.peronel@ag.tamu.edu.

This is a grant funded position.

All positions are security-sensitive. Applicants are subject to a criminal history investigation, and employment is contingent upon the institution’s verification of credentials and/or other information required by the institution’s procedures, including the completion of the criminal history check.

Equal Opportunity/Veterans/Disability Employer.