Job Description

Position Summary

The Innovation Architect will create and support a culture of innovation aligned to the company's Internal Innovation vision and strategy. He/she will be primarily responsible for global programs and processes to operationalize innovation and connect barriers, solutions, and people. This person will establish and coach multi-disciplinary Innovation teams empowered to work entrepreneurially, challenge current thinking and practices, and create customer and business value in ways unlikely to emerge from existing methods.

Essential Functions

Functional:

• Owns the development of the internal innovation platform through voice of customer, product ownership, and feature development in HTML, JavaScript, and TypeScript, leveraging MongoDB.
• Leads design and development of the innovation platform, including capture of global Voice of Customer (VOC) from internal users and stakeholders and management of the development backlog.
• Provides strategy for integrating innovation within Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), earns stakeholder support, enables execution, and shares best practices globally.
• Serves as a champion and coach for innovation teams, helps to gain senior leader sponsorship, guides the implementation process, and removes roadblocks.
• Convenes, supports, and leverages an Innovation Community of Practice from within business units and functions.
• Supports strategy and execution of innovation vehicles to foster a culture of experimentation, inspire, and meaningfully engage targeted employee segments, driving disruptive revenue growth.
• Develops a current knowledge of innovation methodologies, frameworks, and research that may be applied within the company.
• Documents and shares a repertoire of examples, workflows, and best practices business units and functions can utilize.
• Develops, tracks, and reports activity and impact-based innovation metrics.

Leadership:

• Guides the company in thinking past current constraints to imagine a different future.
• Presents new opportunities to all levels of the organization and influences others to gain buy-in and alignment.
• Trains and leads volunteer teams in innovation platform development and utilization of website development best practices
• Leads cross-company alignment and collaboration to accelerate innovation.
• Applies knowledge of Rockwell Automation businesses, culture, and customer value to increase the quality and impact of innovation activities.
• Invests time in the development and coaching of others.
• Manages, trains, and hires interns and rotational employees

Interpersonal:

• Demonstrates optimism and agility in adjusting to new opportunities and challenges.
• Connects ideas and talent, serving as a networking resource for internal innovators.
• Ensures innovators feel heard and supported.
• Eagerly takes on initiatives and challenges, taking controlled risks while remaining passionate about driving toward well-defined goals.

Business:

• Leads the incubation and transformation of ideas into products, to create core, adjacent, and transformational growth through new revenue streams.
• Guides the organization in relentless focus on customer and business value.
• Fosters greater customer intimacy among employees, helping employees deliver solutions for unmet customer needs.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical/Computer/Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years' experience with an emphasis on software engineering, product development, and/or innovation.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 10%.
• Legal authorization to work in the US is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
• Experience in website development.

• MBA focused on entrepreneurship.
• Demonstrated proficiency in Agile development and methodology.
• Scrum Master (PSM I) certification.
• Strong facilitation, coaching, and feedback skills.
• Demonstrated success leading global culture change at all levels of the organization.
• Knowledge of industry-recognized innovation models and best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to define and execute a corporate innovation strategy and framework.
• Experience leading employees, contractors, and interns.
• Experience communicating effectively with senior leaders and among cross-functional teams, middle-management, and large-scale employee bases.
• Proven experience in both large corporations and technology startups.
• Comfort with uncertainty and ability to navigate complex situations with competing priorities.

This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor for position level and compensation

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