Innovation Product Lead - Digital & AI Solutions in City of Westminster

We’re BDO, an accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world. We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high‑growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them.

To ensure our services and applications are fit for the modern market, our IT team collaborates with every department. They develop, explore and implement new ideas helping us to change the future of accounting, tax and business consulting. They maintain the tech that keeps us advancing, testing and adopting the future of financial technical solutions to find new and exciting ways to drive us forward.

In this role you’ll:

• Help drive innovation – both mindset and practical delivery – throughout BDO’s 8,000 employees and at all levels.
• Help the business areas create and define new opportunities, innovations and assess whether digital products can help deliver benefits for these areas.
• Help the business define the benefits of the change, short and long term, tangible and intangible and assess priority.
• Administer the internal innovation platform for all users, including helping people set innovation challenges and managing the ideas generated.
• Assist the Product Owner where required in our Agile/SCRUM development process, and interface into our internal and external development teams.
• Ensure the product is complete – i.e. the business strategy, the product specification, the business case and the technical requirements match the delivered solution, both commercially and technically.
• Liaise with the Business Relationship Managers to help manage the pipeline of incoming products, PoCs/prototypes and technology requests.
• Support them with captivating content to extend the reach of innovation within business units.
• Manage the firm’s innovation community to communicate our product roadmap, and help develop new ideas and possible products.
• Arrange and deliver learning and training across a range of skills and levels, in order to increase uptake of delivered innovation, and to improve our Digital Mindset and client experience.

You’ll be someone with:

• A passion for innovation and product development, from concept to delivery to ownership, with a demonstrable track record of successful products.
• The ability to champion ideas, innovation, digital, mobile and AI in a professional services environment.
• The ability to contribute to all aspects of digital product development, including business planning, costs/revenue projections, marketing/comms, operational planning, product requirements, liaising with development teams and solution architects, change control, project timescales and costs, UX/UI and digital design, customer feedback and co-creation.
• Excellent knowledge of digital and mobile product creation, with attention to detail and the desire for products to look fantastic and delight customers.
• The ability to work with both internal delivery teams and external suppliers.
• The ability to manage challenging ideas full lifecycle, i.e. from idea to product.
• Product Management and Product Owner experience and qualifications.
• Knowledge of the professional services sector, specifically accountancy areas of tax, audit and advisory, and the associated trends and products (desirable).
• Knowledge of innovation and product development lifecycles, product design and delivery methodology.
• The ability to organise product portfolio and manage backlog of change.
• General agile delivery and management skills.

We’re committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at hand. Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another.

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy. Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths.