Head of Digital Products
We are looking for an ambitious candidate for the role as Head of Digital Products to join our team of passionate geeks, human-centered designers, and business thinkers.
Posted: 12/8/2021
Application Deadline: 1/15/2022
Qualifications
We are looking for an ambitious candidate for the role as Head of Digital Products. The ideal candidate has a proven track record of bringing digital solutions to market. You know your way around in a Digital agency and might also have worked as a product owner within bigger organisations or have experience from building tech startups or consulting. An IT background is not required, but flair for tech and digital concepts is a must. More importantly, you have experience in not only building but also selling digital products. Last but not least we are looking for someone with the right toolbox and a person who easily navigates different methodologies for creating digital products e.g. Design thinking, service design, lean startup.
We hope you recognize yourself in most of the following characteristics:
- A strong communicator and storyteller - both spoken, written, and visually
- A commercial mindset
- A creative problem-solver
- An experienced facilitator throughout all project phases
- Excellent at stakeholder management
- A person worth following
- A go-do colleague who is ready to be our digital product catalyst and make a real impact
About the role
1508 has recently restructured and have a dual focus on craft (UX Design, Visual Design, Development) and the services we deliver (Brand Design, Digital Products, Business Design). We call our service categories pods.
As our new Head of Digital Products, you will be responsible for understanding the needs of our clients and helping the pod on delivering best in class digital products. We are looking for a colleague who can have a clear focus on making sure that the digital products we deliver to our clients not only enhances an experience, but makes the clients users move their feet to make a behavioural change that in a business impact. Your extensive experience will be inspiration to the members of the pod of digital products. A person worth following. While from the outside - you will be responsible for making noise about our great cases and driving the sales.
The position is newly established, and you will, to a high degree, be allowed to shape it. Still, the role includes:
- Making us visible in the market and sell the services
- Has a quality assurance role in terms of deliverables
- Striving to make 1508 create the worlds best digital products
- Responsible for knowledge sharing across pods
- Helps hiring people with the right skills needed to deliver on digital products
About 1508
We are a strategic design company that has been around since 2000. We are a team of nearly 35 skilled people and each of us adds to the unique 1508-spirit. We see our culture as our primary asset and allow no assholes and no bullshit. We continuously experiment with the way we work, to always bring quality in what we deliver to the world.
Application
Please apply by sending an email to job@1508.dk with the subject "Head of Digital Products".
You are also welcome to contact our Business Development Director, Oliver Vassard on ova@1508.dk or telephone +45 3051 8180 to learn more about the job. We look forward to hearing from you.
Application deadline: 16th of January – but we’d like to hear from you as soon as possible.