Senior Manager, Business Innovation Owner

Role Description

The Sr. Manager, Business Innovation Owner - Remote leads end-to-end innovation initiatives that turn business strategy into measurable results. This role drives multi-functional collaboration from conceptualization through execution, ensuring new products, services, or processes deliver business value, operational impact, and financial outcomes while balancing speed, risk, and strategic priorities.

• Translates business strategies, customer needs, and market insights into innovation initiatives and testable hypotheses.
• Leads the full lifecycle of innovation projects, including discovery, prototyping, experimentation, validation, and scaling.
• Leads and facilitates agile teams, workstreams, workshops, sprints, and retrospectives to drive iterative learning and delivery.
• Conducts or supervises market research, customer discovery, and product‑market fit assessments.
• Designs and delivers validation experiments using lean startup, design thinking, or hypothesis-driven methods.
• Builds strong cases, ROI models, and scaling recommendations advised by evidence and data.
• Influences and aligns partners across product, business, design, engineering, analytics, and operations.
• Removes blockers, leads risks, and ensures multi-functional clarity on goals, roles, and expected outcomes.
• Prepares and delivers clear communication, updates, and recommendations for senior leadership.
• Contributes to continuous improvement of innovation practices, playbooks, and operating rhythms within the business unit.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Strategy, Innovation, Marketing, Design, Economics, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 -10 years demonstrated ability in innovation, product strategy, business strategy, consulting, or related fields.
• 3 Years leading others directly or indirectly.
• Financial and partner management skill.
• Demonstrated success owning initiatives from conceptualization through validation and launch.
• Experience leading multi-functional teams using agile or iterative methods.
• Solid ability to translate business strategy into actionable innovation plans and validated concepts.
• Deep experience with innovation frameworks (e.g., design thinking, lean startup, agile experimentation).
• Excellent research, synthesis, and analytical skills, particularly related to customer insights and market dynamics.
• Ability to assess product‑market fit and design experiments to validate assumptions.
• Strong leadership of multi-functional teams without formal authority.
• Skilled facilitator, capable of leading workshops, sprints, and structured ideation sessions.
• Effective partner management, influence, and communication skills.
• Ability to develop cases and articulate clear value propositions and critical metrics.
• Comfort with ambiguity and iterative development in early‑stage environments.

Requirements

• Advanced degree (e.g., MBA) or professional training in innovation, product strategy, or applied research.
• Experience delivering measurable innovation outcomes within a business unit or product line.
• Prior responsibility for cases, pilot programs, and scaling recommendations.
• Experience influencing senior partners and collaborating across multiple disciplines.
• Creates a collaborative, inclusive and psychologically safe environment, demonstrating authenticity and fostering trust to inspire and empower team members and colleagues.
• Actively shapes our company culture through words and actions (e.g., supporting employee resource groups, mentoring employees, volunteering, joining multi-functional projects, encouraging team member involvement in these activities).
• Champions our cultural norms (e.g., willing to have cameras when it matters: interviewing candidates, building relationships with team members, etc.).
• Translates our enterprise strategy and priorities for their team members to connect to the bigger picture.
• Demonstrates a company ownership mindset, thinking beyond boundaries of their own area.
• Travels as needed for role, including enterprise meetings, divisional/team meetings, and other in-person meetings.
• Fulfills business needs, which may include investing extra time, helping other teams, etc.

Benefits

• Total compensation package, annual bonus eligibility for most roles, 401(k) with a company match.
• Flexible Workplace: Remote-first culture with Home-Flex roles.
• Career Growth: Partnership with leaders and mentors for development opportunities.
• Inclusion and Belonging: Fostering an inclusive and welcoming workplace.
• Sustainability: Taking action to build resilient communities and reduce environmental impact.