Job Description
We Are
Innovation Growth Studio’s, a global Accenture capability made up of product mavericks, technology mavens, and growth hackers. Featuring product owners, designers and technologists alongside commercial and operational strategists, our multi-disciplinary pod helps clients find, capture, and defend their next great opportunity in weeks, not months.
Our ethos is to build in the real world and not in the proverbial ‘corporate basement’ – away from the ideation valley of death. We build, test, iterate, and scale with the only people who matter – real customers.
You Are
At the forefront of applying cutting-edge innovation to drive valuable business outcomes. You'll work on innovative projects with colleagues to drive collaboration from strategy through to implementation. You will be using the latest technologies with clients to help them get to the next level and achieve sustainable profits.
You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways. You will be testing innovation ideas in the market with clients to help them solve their biggest innovation challenges and introduce
If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.
In our team you will learn:
To work with Product Owners, Technical Architects, Business Analysts, Designers, Researchers and Customer Leads
To test innovation ideas in the market and to own responsibility for project viability, market attractiveness, competitive assessments, product feature alignment, market segmentation, pricing, and a beachhead go-to-market plan
To lead and work positively and effectively within highly talented, constructive and experienced teams. This is very much a role that requires balance and flexibility between discipline and creativity and requires being adaptable and practical within fast-changing environments.
Responsibilities:
Work with global Fortune 500 clients on some of their most important innovation ideas and challenges
Work for a small, but high growth consulting business, within one of the world’s largest Professional Services firms.
Have ownership of your work, with responsibility, autonomy and accountability
Work with Product and Customer project leads to coordinate work objectives and results
Help clients evaluate and prioritize innovation initiatives
Help clients move from idea to growth, to cashflow and growth
Qualifications
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
Experienced in any role that helped customers and had a revenue impact
Minimum of 2 years people management experience
Commercial experience in a technical / software and / or high growth company would be preferred
Excellent analysis, problem solving and decision-making skills
Excellent time and self-management through effective planning & prioritisation of tasks
Strategy consulting, Product Manager, VC, PE or Financial/Commodity market experience could be a plus
A fluency in structured thinking, with second nature hypothesis forming, story telling while working with incomplete information
Excellent and critical understanding of Economics, Finance and Marketing, preferably demonstrated by real world experience rather than business school credentials (both are, of course, welcome)
Other desirable areas of experience: market sizing and segmentation, understanding market trends and key drivers, identifying relative and adjacent competitive arenas, identifying customer demands and needs, understanding different research methods and applications, value proposition creation, understanding different business models, product pricing, solid understanding of macro - economics, financial modelling, genuine interest and curiosity in innovation, investing, or any related field
English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with stakeholders across Canada, US and other countries across our Global footprint where English is the common language. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking stakeholders, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.
Bonus Points if:
You enjoy having a non-consensus discussion with others; you view positive disagreement as a learning opportunity rather than a lack of alignment
You would prefer to be bold than align on mediocrity
You have a demonstrated passion or perseverance in any non-career related field for a time of over 2 years
You are genuinely humble, curious, and like to help others. You are happy to share your many failures, so that others may learn from them.
You can recall working within the “flow state” in a team environment. You can highlight a consistency in nurturing talent around you
You are comfortable with ambiguity, but not as an excuse for sloppiness or laziness
You have a desire for Progress over Process and are comfortable and able to figure things out as they crop up to achieve an objective
You have demonstrated a competitive edge and discipline for continuous improvement
That mundane summer job was character building, and introduced you to different people and experiences
