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.