Job Description
We are:
Accenture Labs is the applied technology R&D organization within Accenture. The Accenture Labs mission is to invent the future for Accenture, our clients, and the market. Focused on solving critical business problems with advanced technology, Accenture Labs brings fresh insights and innovations to our clients, helping them capitalize on dramatic changes in technology, business, and society. Our dedicated team of technologists and researchers work with leaders across the company to invest in, incubate and deliver breakthrough ideas and solutions that help our clients create new sources of business advantage.
You are:
A passionate leader who brings technology innovation, facilitation skills, and an entrepreneur mindset to help us grow the Labs Engagement Program. You have excellent interpersonal, communication, and listening skills. You are a life-long learner and be energized by solving new problems and transforming how our clients think.
The work:
The Labs Engagement North America Regional Lead will have the following mission and key responsibilities:
* Be an ambassador in the San Francisco Hub and in North America to identify relevant opportunities for labs and tech innovation
* Collaborate very closely in North America with the Labs R&D teams and leadership, the Tech Innovation blended go to market team, and the Tech Innovation leadership to build and maintain relationships with our internal and external partners clients.
* Be a Labs and Tech Innovation ambassador from a content, knowledge, and offerings perspective.
* Facilitate Labs and Tech Innovation engagement opportunities and help shape value propositions, project proposals, and engagement roadmaps, Advisory sessions, Proof of Concepts, Prototypes, Pilots.
* Connect the dots with Strategy & Consulting innovation across the North America region.
* Facilitate Labs and Technology Innovation engagement in innovation services and facilitate dedicated engagements for example facilitating and delivering deep dive of Labs
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
* Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Technology
* 8 years of Experience working in emerging technologies and tech innovation
Preferred Skills
* Excellent presentation, speaking, and communication skills
* Prior Management Consulting Experience in the creation of proposals, resource planning, roadmaps
* Prior Business Technology background and or strong interest in emerging technologies and how they impact the business
* Design Thinking experience
* Strong management presence as well as facilitation experience with storytelling skills
Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Accenture.
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