Concept Lead with a creative, and community-building mindset - for a consumer-based app
CO2HERO is fast becoming the world's leading app to take climate action.
We connect businesses committed to a positive impact for the planet with a global community committed to making eco-friendly choices. In particular, we guide our users to cut down on their CO2 emissions through different lifestyle activities such as commuting, recycling, reusing, food …. just to name a few.
CO2HERO is a (SaaS) scale-up. Our clients are Fortune 500 companies. We have a global vision and exist to encourage change in everyday behaviour, in a balanced way.
As one of our customers said “CO2HERO is a one-stop platform for carbon-friendly actions that combines gameplay, competition, and climate science no matter where people may be in the world”.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and proactive Concept Lead who shares our passion in creating impact to cut down CO2. You will be joining at the perfect time to participate in the creative development of our mobile app across key markets.
Join our movement to better everyone’s daily life with actionable, low-carbon solutions provided on our global, digital platform.
Be part of a team that has several nationalities, whilst working from our office in Copenhagen. Our day-to-day language is English. You will report directly to, and work closely with our Chief Technology Officer to bring to life our CO2HERO Strategy.
Responsibilities
Provide the creative vision for our CO2HERO app
Stay on top of UX trends around community building, looking for creative ideas and inspiration for our app
Support all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience on our app
Participate in planning discussions around our brand strategy, ensuring app development is aligned
Lead Product Design Sprints for our app by maturing ideas through prototyping, and validating assumptions with real users, and partners
Participate in the app development process from definition, through design, build, test, release, and maintenance
Gamify the app concept, based on best practices
Act as a team lead for our Concept Designer and UI Designer
Contribute towards the development of a product roadmap, alongside team members in other areas
Tasks
Bring ideas for concept development (based on own experience, and validation with users and partners) to the table for our app, with stakeholders across departments (marketing, sales, technology)
Be customer-centric in all that you do, and strive to ensure concepts drive seamless user experience, whilst emotionally connecting users to the app
Develop and implement new concepts for our app
Create user personas for idea generation, and validation
Collaborate with marketing, and customer success on ideas
Collaborate, and work closely with our User Interface, and Concept Designer on new ideas, features and the overall user experience
Implement wireframes and prototypes of ideas through Product Design Sprints in collaboration with the team
Create user stories, tasks and documentation for features
Define the user experience through User Journey Mapping
Perform usability testing with users
Implement gamification into relevant parts of the concept as a mechanism for retention
Personal skills and qualifications
Minimum 5 years of experience developing mobile apps, or app-based games that build and nurture digital communities - preferably from an international company, App developer, Game Studio and/or start ups
Master’s degree (or other similar credentials) or relevant experience
Market, and digital savviness, with the ability to keep up with the complexity of different social network platforms around the world
Structured, organised, and detail-orientated; taking new ideas from start to finish
UX specialist with a good understanding of user psychology that enriches the overall experience for users and partners, whilst driving growth and retention
Experience with gamification or game design, with a proven track-record of success
Offer
You will be offered plenty of challenges every day, working amongst a highly skilled, dynamic and ambitious team, several of whom have worked and lived across Europe, North America, and Asia.
As CO2HERO is in rapid growth, you have the potential to grow in professional and personal aspects.
Our office is in the heart of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg. We offer a very flexible workplace where we value high work-life balance for everyone.
Interested?
If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, get excited about finding smarter ways to do things, and have a burning desire to be part of a winning team where you can truly make a difference, we want to meet you.
Please send a short message telling us why you would be perfect for this role, accompanied by your CV, in English.
This job comes with several perks and benefits
Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.
Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.
Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.
Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.
You know how you perform best. Work from your couch, your favorite cafe or abroad when you feel like it.
Carve out time for your kids, friends and personal cider projects.