About the role
Description We are seeking an Incubation Strategist who will bridge between our customers' challenges, cutting-edge AI research topics, and product roadmap to produce future vision narratives for our customers. This role will work closely with our research managers to understand the future capabilities; our product managers, to find the right gaps in our product where innovation can push it forward; and directly with our customers to inspire and partner with them to bring the collective vision to life. This role requires a strong background in user experience design, narrative creation, and an affinity to emerging technologies.
Your Impact/Responsibilities Human-Centered Design: using a deep understanding of HCD methodologies and design thinking, you'll conduct discovery with our customers, as well as with our internal stakeholders to identify end-user needs and come up with innovative solutions.
Narrative & Storytelling: Create end-to-end narratives that bring to life a vision and a north-star that will be used to communicate the value and solution.
Creative Execution: Develop screens and visuals that tell the narrative using tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and AI-powered applications.
User Experience Design: Create storyboards, screens, and other design elements to convey the user experience while tying it to the user and business needs
Vision Demos and PoCs: Work closely with product managers, engineers, and researchers to bring demos and proof-of-concepts to life in the AI Research environment, as web, mobile, and future-ui applications/modalities
Customer-facing presentations: Meet with executive customers and internal stakeholders to deliver high-impact presentations that will convey the vision
Strategic Planning: Work across teams and disciplines to identify and align on research areas, product fit and strategic customers to best align with the incubation priorities
Minimum Requirements Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
10+ years of experience in fields related to design & user experience
impeccable eye for design and sense for storytelling
Excellent verbal, presentation, and written communication skills
High proficiency in design and presentation applications (Figma, Adobe Suite, Google Slides, Keynote, etc.)
Comfortable working in ambiguity and in a fast-paced environment
Desirable Experience with Agentforce and AI technologies.
Good understanding of Salesforce products and Enterprise use cases
Experience creating Salesforce applications and/or demos
Curiosity to leverage AI-powered tools (Stable Diffusion, ComfyUI, generative image/video/sound tools, etc.)
Big plus for having front-end development and Vibe Coding (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
Big plus for having motion / animation skills (Aftereffects, Motion, etc.)
Proven track record of delivering high impact visions
About griddable.io
Griddable.io is a San Jose, CA based SaaS startup that closed Series A funding in 2017 from August Capital, Artiman Ventures, and Carsten Thoma, founding CEO of Hybris (acquired by SAP).
The griddable.io concept was conceived by Rajeev Bharadhwaj, a serial entrepreneur with a vision to create a globally synchronized enterprise. He made a key decision to build-on vs. replace traditional databases and develop a new approach for synchronous data integration.
After identifying the Databus open source project at LinkedIn as a foundational technology, he recruited Chavdar Botev, the primary architect of Databus, and Burton Hipp, who co-founded a prior startup with Rajeev. Together they created the first griddable.io product, proved the technology at design partners, and recruited Robin Purohit as CEO, a software industry veteran known to the team from VERITAS and HP.
About the role
Description We are seeking an Incubation Strategist who will bridge between our customers' challenges, cutting-edge AI research topics, and product roadmap to produce future vision narratives for our customers. This role will work closely with our research managers to understand the future capabilities; our product managers, to find the right gaps in our product where innovation can push it forward; and directly with our customers to inspire and partner with them to bring the collective vision to life. This role requires a strong background in user experience design, narrative creation, and an affinity to emerging technologies.
Your Impact/Responsibilities Human-Centered Design: using a deep understanding of HCD methodologies and design thinking, you'll conduct discovery with our customers, as well as with our internal stakeholders to identify end-user needs and come up with innovative solutions.
Narrative & Storytelling: Create end-to-end narratives that bring to life a vision and a north-star that will be used to communicate the value and solution.
Creative Execution: Develop screens and visuals that tell the narrative using tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and AI-powered applications.
User Experience Design: Create storyboards, screens, and other design elements to convey the user experience while tying it to the user and business needs
Vision Demos and PoCs: Work closely with product managers, engineers, and researchers to bring demos and proof-of-concepts to life in the AI Research environment, as web, mobile, and future-ui applications/modalities
Customer-facing presentations: Meet with executive customers and internal stakeholders to deliver high-impact presentations that will convey the vision
Strategic Planning: Work across teams and disciplines to identify and align on research areas, product fit and strategic customers to best align with the incubation priorities
Minimum Requirements Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
10+ years of experience in fields related to design & user experience
impeccable eye for design and sense for storytelling
Excellent verbal, presentation, and written communication skills
High proficiency in design and presentation applications (Figma, Adobe Suite, Google Slides, Keynote, etc.)
Comfortable working in ambiguity and in a fast-paced environment
Desirable Experience with Agentforce and AI technologies.
Good understanding of Salesforce products and Enterprise use cases
Experience creating Salesforce applications and/or demos
Curiosity to leverage AI-powered tools (Stable Diffusion, ComfyUI, generative image/video/sound tools, etc.)
Big plus for having front-end development and Vibe Coding (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
Big plus for having motion / animation skills (Aftereffects, Motion, etc.)
Proven track record of delivering high impact visions
About griddable.io
Griddable.io is a San Jose, CA based SaaS startup that closed Series A funding in 2017 from August Capital, Artiman Ventures, and Carsten Thoma, founding CEO of Hybris (acquired by SAP).
The griddable.io concept was conceived by Rajeev Bharadhwaj, a serial entrepreneur with a vision to create a globally synchronized enterprise. He made a key decision to build-on vs. replace traditional databases and develop a new approach for synchronous data integration.
After identifying the Databus open source project at LinkedIn as a foundational technology, he recruited Chavdar Botev, the primary architect of Databus, and Burton Hipp, who co-founded a prior startup with Rajeev. Together they created the first griddable.io product, proved the technology at design partners, and recruited Robin Purohit as CEO, a software industry veteran known to the team from VERITAS and HP.