Product Strategist - Innovation

Variable is an innovation team within a Fortune 100 company. Our mission is to experiment with new technologies and ideas to understand the future. We are committed to encouraging a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where innovation thrives. We drive impact at scale. The Innovation Strategist is an entrepreneurial who leads work at the intersection of strategy and execution. Build the tools and experiences that empower our company, advisors, and help our clients thrive. Work with a talented team of engineers, designers, data scientists and financial experts to define product vision, strategy and deliver experiences to enable clients to achieve financial security.

Set Product Vision: Collaboratively define and communicate a clear vision for innovation experiments and new solutions, grounded in business strategy, customer insight, and emerging technology opportunity Develop Roadmap: Lead the development and socialization of a program roadmap that reflects stakeholder priorities, strategic bets, and a realistic path to value Define and Track KPIs: Establish measures of success for innovation experiments and use outcome data to validate strategic direction and inform go or no-go decisions Validate the Right Solution: Drive the discovery and definition phase of innovation programs, using research, stakeholder input, and experimentation to validate that proposed solutions address the right problems before committing to build Gather and Synthesize Requirements: Lead cross-functional work to identify, pressure-test, and prioritize requirements, translating ambiguous opportunity spaces into well-scoped program definitions Stakeholdering: Build and manage relationships with executive partners, business leaders, and technology stakeholders, proactively bringing strategic recommendations and leading conversations that shape program direction Executive Communication: Develop and deliver executive-ready briefings, narratives, and decision-support materials that make complex innovation work accessible and actionable for senior audiences User Insights: Anchor program decisions in qualitative and quantitative research, customer insight, and experimentation results, and synthesize findings into a clear strategic point of view and working with design partners to ensure concepts are grounded in this insight. Facilitate Ceremonies: Facilitate daily scrums, sprint planning sessions, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, continuously improving how the team operates Emerging Technology: Evaluate AI and other emerging technologies for strategic fit and enterprise applicability, leveraging a working knowledge of how these capabilities are evolving What You'll Bring Bachelor's degree 5+ Years of prior experience with at least 4 working in a Product Management Role or innovation consulting, with agile team experience Knowledge Preferred: formal business analyst, engineering or testing experience, knowledge of the financial services industry, comfortable working in ambiguity, pressure-testing assumptions, and validating the right solution before committing to build Strong executive communication and storytelling skills, with experience developing materials for and presenting to senior leadership Working knowledge of AI and its practical enterprise applications, with an understanding of how capabilities are evolving and where the technology is heading Must have demonstrated cross functional work in previous experience along with strong communication skills, time management, project management skills, business acumen and high self-awareness/EQ Demonstrated previous research experience, influence skills, initial leadership exposure, ability to translate product requirements into technical requirements, and work in ambiguity and solutioning Solves complex problems; take a new perspective on existing solutions; exercise judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information Skills You Have Cross Functional