**Job summary**
**Responsibilities**
- Define the north star, lay roadmap and drive innovation for developing and operationalizing the pod in coordination with industry and market leads
- Steer and guide the team in right direction
- Formulate and execute agenda, from discovering the relevant ecosystem to work with, to prototyping, establishing pioneering engagements and packaging the results for scaling to the rest of Accenture
- Understand, articulate and further identify key technology trends & their potential business impact
- Overall leadership responsibility for building prototypes - bringing concepts to initial implementations - including design and coding to testing
- Actively contribute to the technology community and progressively become known as technology experts
- Plan, structure, and deliver research using various secondary and primary research techniques
- Develop innovative and proprietary ideas, insights, assets, and capabilities
**Experience**
- 12+ years relevant experience
- Supporting knowledge building efforts such as developing offerings, assets, capabilities, and relevant thought leadership, insights and engage with the wider Sustainability community across Accenture globally
**Key skills**
- Research & Development
- Industry & Trends Research
- Business Model Innovation
- Value Proposition Development