As our Experience Design Lead, you'll be the driving force behind our data-informed approach to creating impactful products. Leveraging your expertise in UX/CX best practices and design tools, you'll craft user personas, journey maps, and high-fidelity prototypes that resonate with our target audiences.
At City Innovations, we build the right thing. As our Experience Design Lead, you'll be the driving force behind our data-informed approach to creating impactful products. Your role will be to discover and transform market insights into actionable product strategies and design user-centered experiences that drive engagement and growth. Leveraging your expertise in UX/CX best practices and design tools, you'll craft user personas, journey maps, and high-fidelity prototypes that resonate with our target audiences.
Our core frameworks including Lean Canvas, Jobs to Be Done, and Design Sprints, will help you validate product concepts and collaborate with the venture teams to bring data-driven innovations to market faster. You'll serve as the crucial link between user needs and product development, ensuring our ventures are both innovative and market-validated.
We help companies build digital ventures that will matter to the world. We are a Venture Studio of strategists, technologists, idealists, pragmatists & capitalists all working together to make sure you build the right thing, and it gets to the market faster.
You will have the opportunity to collaborate with peers creatively to bring ideas to life in the digital world. City holds tightly to our Core Values…
Care: Value Community and People First
Own: Have an Ownership Mindset
Serve: Serve the Needs of Others
Learn: Freedom to Try Something New And To Make Mistakes
Enjoy: Enjoy and Embrace the Journey
At City Innovations, your growth is our priority. You will join a global team who loves building the right thing.
Our culture champions innovation and collaboration with initiatives such as an annual allowance for professional development, wellness programs, our annual Team Week, and dynamic design sprints that turn your ideas into real-world solutions.
The flexibility to work remotely, supported by resources such as home office stipends and co-working space memberships helps ensure your career progresses no matter where you choose to be. City Innovations not only recognizes your achievements with reward systems such as shared success compensation bonuses for key roles, but also provides the tools and flexibility needed for your success.
Other Benefits Include:
In this role, your primary work environment will be your home office, complemented by our co-working space in Grand Rapids, MI. Our teams work virtually but co-work is expected between 9am to 5pm Eastern.
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This Position Description reflects the position’s essential functions and does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions but it is understood that this role requires 10-25% travel to client and team meetings.
While performing the essential functions of this job, the employee is regularly required to use computers, telephones, and other office equipment. The employee must also occasionally lift and/or move items up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required include close vision and the ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
City Innovations is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and we are committed to diversity and inclusion. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.