Research Functional Lead
Core
Senior leadership role guiding early-stage research strategy, concept shape, and business design for new product concepts in financial services innovation.
Role type
Senior IC research functional lead (innovation strategy)
Builds
Early-stage new business concepts and product ideas
Domain
Financial services innovation
Required skills
market sizing, financial modeling, qualitative research methods, business design, team management, cross-functional collaboration, AI tool implementation, framework development
Preferred skills
experience in financial services or tech, agile ways of working, talent management
Technologies
AI tools, prompting techniques
Responsibilities
Lead research and business design function across concept pods; validate market size and financial modeling; define research plans to test customer desirability and market potential; guide researchers in applying qualitative and quantitative methods; support iteration of concept direction based on insights; develop repeatable frameworks to scale research; collaborate with Applied Intelligence FL on AI tools; lead transformation of the research function; participate in talent management processes.