EY Client Technology NITRO-Innovation Lead 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

10837973

Job Family:Technical Product Delivery Management

Role:NITRO Innovation Lead

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

:

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

Experience:

• 7 to 12 years

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