Job Description

This position is hybrid-onsite with 50% of the time remote and 50% of the time split between the client's office locations in downtown Chicago and Arlington Heights.

Required Skills:

• Real-world experience in either Technology Product Management or Client Facing Solution Engineering and Architecture Development
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Analytics or Technology.
• 8+ years of experience working in emerging technologies and/or tech innovation
• Strong organization and time management skills
• High degree of independent thinking, but with the ability to influence others

Preferred Skills:

• Understanding of and experience with proof-of-concept development, product management, and Agile development processes including how to create requirements (writing code is not necessary)
• Experience with implementation of new ideas and technologies within matrix, multinational operations organizations – in rational and scalable ways
• High-level knowledge of the application and the potential for autonomous and electrified vehicles, robotics for operational efficiency, VR/AR/XR/MR, location-based services and tracking technology, mesh networks, IoT solutions and edge-compute, including smart-city technologies
• Understanding of a variety of technologies and platforms such as cloud-based solutions (AWS/Azure), immersive reality (Unity, Unreal Engine, NVIDIA Omniverse), computer vision and AI/ML models for identification and tracking, front end and back-end stacks (.NET, JAVA, Kubernetes, Angular, JSON, etc.).

You have:

• The ability to drive the spirit of “think it, model it, test it, best it” – you are passionate about your approach to bringing scalable technology innovation to the market with the necessary facilitation skills and entrepreneurial mindset to help us grow.
• The technical skill set to understand the “under the hood” of most emerging technologies such as AI/ML, Ambient Intelligence (IoT/IoE), Robotics/Autonomous Vehicles, Biometrics/Digital ID, and Virtualization/Simulation/Metaverse among the top
• A good bead on the latest trends in tech and geek-out over what you just discovered, able to provide assessments of its potential impact and opportunity for your colleagues
• A “can do” attitude and consider yourself a perpetual student of life and a problem solver – savvy enough to enable internal and external transformation of existing thoughts and processes
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills that generates consensus and buy-in – you respectfully challenge, provide fresh insight, and help your colleagues see the future through collaborative efforts.
• Ability to research, organize data, document ideation and process, and then express/present a potential new idea or solution to drive consensus, buy-in, and excitement – you are an expert in employing collaboration as a tool to “get it done”

Responsibilities:

• Drive and support vision for innovation project stack and be a labs and tech innovation ambassador from a content, knowledge, and offerings perspective
• Facilitate Lab and Tech Innovation engagement opportunities and help shape value propositions, project proposals, and engagement roadmaps, advisory sessions, proof of concepts, prototypes, pilots and more.
• Identify, analyze and expose potential opportunities for new and emerging technologies for the client's industry
• Provide emerging technology and company evaluations and assessments, and present their potential with practical applications to multiple stakeholders and partners
• Build, negotiate and maintain a partner network with 3rd party vendors
• Provide ad-hoc support to the Lab Lead through the development of research, executive updates and POC documentation
• Collaborate closely with your team and other colleagues to drive a holistic vision and presence for the future of client
• The technical skill set to understand the “under the hood” of most emerging technologies such as AI/ML, Ambient Intelligence (IoT/IoE), Robotics/Autonomous Vehicles, Biometrics/Digital ID, and Virtualization/Simulation/Metaverse among the top
• Drive and support vision for innovation project stack and be a labs and tech innovation ambassador from a content, knowledge, and offerings perspective
• Facilitate Lab and Tech Innovation engagement opportunities and help shape value propositions, project proposals, and engagement roadmaps, advisory sessions, proof of concepts, prototypes, pilots and more.
• Identify, analyze and expose potential opportunities for new and emerging technologies for the client industry.
• Provide emerging technology and company evaluations and assessments, and present their potential with practical applications to multiple stakeholders and partners
• Build, negotiate and maintain a partner network with 3rd party vendors
• Provide ad-hoc support to the Lab Lead through the development of research, executive updates and POC documentation
• Collaborate closely with the innovation team and other colleagues to drive a holistic vision and presence for the future of client