Product designer

The Innovation Loop’s mission is to support innovators and their investors in truly changing the world by removing the barriers that stand in their way one by one! To do this, we developed a digital platform that aims to BOOST the tech and business content of their innovation projects in using an heavy dose of data and AI. The Innovation Loop works with all actors of the ecosystem (e.g. start-ups, large groups, universities) on disruptive innovation projects. We have been recently appointed by the European Commission (the European Innovation Council) to assist European Deeptech startups in developing their projects and identifying public and private funding for innovation.

The Innovation Loop it is:

• 23 employees in 2022 (40 in 2023)
• 200,000 projects referenced on the platform
• 27,000 users of the platform

YOUR MISSIONS

Embedded at the heart of our Design team, you collaborate with the different business units to define the needs and the UX of a product from its conception to its launch. You will conduct, with the support of your Head of Design, the design of your product hand-to-hand with the product owner, the design team, and the agile squad.

About the role

Your role will be to create alignment with the business around the issues and problems to be solved and the solutions to be implemented, all the while keeping in mind the user needs, the product vision, and the technical constraints.

As we’ve successfully grown from start-up to scale-up with more than 27.000 final users and a user lab to create (online surveys & interviews, quizzes, …), we are strengthening our product design team to be user-centered in our choices. You will be an advocate at TIL for user-centered design.

If you are curious about understanding innovation and eager to share with the product team and the whole company about how to use empathy to make better decisions, you’ll love working with our product team where there is still a lot to build. We have already set up a few processes and we have plans to build an insights repository (data desk).

If you want your work to have an impact, you’ll embrace our mission to ensure that innovative projects develop their full potential!

About the job

1/ Discovering

• Understand innovation & market needs and inputs. Ensure that user problems are identified
• Participate to design sprint to first test innovation expert’s assumptions and pivot
• Understand our client’s stakeholders (EIC Project officer, …). Ensure a good understanding of work procedures and gestures
• Conduct user research end-to-end (user interviews, surveys, usability testing, etc.) with the Lead Research Designer

2/ Designing

• Create user journeys, user flows, site maps, and a list of UI
• Develop and test a product prototype following a created concept
• Develop user interaction and create a product interface taking into account the interests of users. Think over a way of visual communication to create an appealing interface that can solve business problems

3/ Delivering

• Work within an efficient design and delivery process to ensure timely delivery
• Ensure that the interfaces designed are technically and ergonomically viable
• Outline design specifications for the technical project manager
• You are at ease on Figma
• You are fluent in both English and French as we have international users

• You have a great capacity to listen and to take a step back
• You know how to embrace complexity and then simplify
• You are willing to learn daily
• You are looking for a meaningful job with an impact on the way people innovate
• You are fluent in written and verbal communication in French and English

• An interview with Denis, Head of Design
• An interview with the Management Committee
• A final interview with Marc Loher, CEO and founder of Innoloop