Innovation Strategy & Design Associate

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC? Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We're committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits
• Pension
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (Onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day of your choosing)

The impact you will have in this role:

As a Senior Associate for the Digital Assets team, the role is focused on identifying and exploring opportunities to shape the organization's digital strategy, and deliver value to DTCC Digital Assets and our customers by co-creating, developing, and re-designing products and services through iterative and rapid proofing to reduce time and cost to market. The candidate will contribute to generation of ideas to re-imagine processes and market behaviours and apply critical thinking and design framework to work with internal and external clients to gather concrete business requirements. The role also consists of converting high priority opportunities into business concept documents and perform opportunity assessments, making recommendations on next steps, as well as defining and managing plans to execute rapid proofing opportunities and detailed opportunity assessments. The candidate will collaborate with the Technology Research & Innovation team, internal stakeholders, and clients to validate opportunities. The role will also include drafting research, whitepapers, case studies to assist in communicating DTCC DA's strategy and views on emerging technology and innovations, both internally and externally.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Monitor the fintech landscape, and capture key insights, industry trends and customer intelligence with respect to emerging technology/innovations to inform on the ideation and opportunity assessment process, including preparing ecosystem maps, capability maps, and feature assessments of FinTechs
• Develop subject matter expertise in relevant business areas to assess new opportunities more effectively
• Define specific product/solution capabilities and features in the ideation and design phases, write user stories, customer journeys and acceptance criteria for rapid proofing exercises
• Assist and support team leads throughout rapid proofing projects
• Drive the continued development of the team’s capabilities to accurately track and report project outcomes, monitor emerging technologies, and educate DTCC teams internally

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 6 years of related experience

Talents Needed For Success:

• Interest and experience in emerging technologies, innovation and digital strategy preferred
• Continuous learner
• Proven analytical skills and problem-solving ability paired with meticulous attention to detail
• Aptitude for logically breaking down complex problems and communicating solutions with clarity
• Proactive team player who takes ownership of and accountability for projects

We offer top class training and development for you to be an asset in our organization! We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.