Client Technology NITRO-Innovation Lead

NITRO Innovation Lead

About NITRO:

NITRO is the Research and Experimentation Labs within Client Technology that helps EY’s business to ideate and incubate new product ideas and technologies through research, technology proof of concepts and minimum viable products

Essential Functions of the Job:

Customer-centricity

• Help the firm’s business to ideate and incubate new and differentiated products and services that meet organizational objectives.
• Work closely with business and regional innovation teams to establish and manage relationships and scout for new business challenges/ideas to be solved/incubated.
• Uncover customer needs and challenges, identify quality requirements, and identify and scope business requirements and priorities in relation to new or existing products or services.
• Have a sound knowledge of customers, the markets in which they operate and the products used in that market.
• Lead, manage and deliver innovation initiatives
• Sustain & optimize a self-directed team model, fostering a culture of innovation, & creativity and deliver high performance outcomes
• Lead the team in the ideation and incubation journey of new product ideas by enabling Design Workshops and associated ideation sessions with business stakeholders.
• Work with the Interaction Designers to come up with early-stage conceptual sketches of the idea and gather early feedback from business stakeholders to lead it to a stage of maturity.
• Lead and manage a team of experimental engineers and Data/AI engineers to evolve the technical proof of concept of the idea to prove the desirability, viability and technology feasibility of it.
• Assess trends and technologies for relevance and viability in the context of the initiative
• Actively seek and review suggestions for maturing the idea through every stage of innovation process through team mediated retrospection
• Work closely together with Solution Architecture to ensure that Technology Innovation is supported by the right architectures and standards.
• Ensure adherence to the innovation process and protocols through the lifecycle.
• Advance concepts with sound desirability, feasibility and viability and seamlessly hand off to Engineering and TO organizations, thereby ensuring a hassle-free adoption.
• Manage the product roadmap through the conceptualization phases of ideation and incubation
• Support the relevant stakeholders in Business Case development with inputs influenced by the incubation outcomes.

Other functions

Be an advocate of technology innovation through technology showcases and demonstrations of assets through powerful story telling - to help the audience connect with the business problem statements and to understand how it adds value to the firm.

Knowledge and Skills Requirements:

• Demonstrate a strong belief in design-thinking and agile innovation, with an entrepreneurial and ‘can do’ mind-set
• Strong expertise in having built/Managed  AI/Gen AI products or solutions
• Possess sound knowledge of the evolving Technology landscape
• Continually strive to strengthen/acquire new knowledge and capabilities to keep up with the evolving changes
• Sound knowledge about EY’s line of business and service offerings
• Identify opportunities in a fast-changing market with the ability to drive the ideas through innovation funnel
• Ability to lead and engage very diverse and distributed groups of stakeholders and team members - cultures, time zones, and navigating complex organization structures
• Ability to build relationships in a remote setting and willingness to travel to meet with Technology and Business leaders to ensure effective collaboration.
• Understand the intricacies of working with large global clients
• Outstanding communication and story-telling skills, both oral and written paired with the ability to tailor the message to global audiences
• Decision-making ability, balancing what is right with what is realistic
• Flexibility to adapt to multiple demands, shifting priorities, and rapid changes
• Ability to handle ambiguity, make decisions with imperfect information, and execute tasks in a rapidly changing environment
• Possess a high energy level, sense of urgency, decisiveness, and ability to work well under pressure
• Experience at large scale enterprises with exposure to senior leaders and C-level management, would be advantageous
• At least 5+ years of experience in product management

Education:

• Graduate/Post Graduate in a Technology or Management based specialism.

Experience:

• 7 to 12 years