Innovation Consultant (Full-Time)

About Our Ecosystem of Businesses

‍We are creating an ecosystem with one common goal: building or empowering the next generation of high-impact businesses. We are entrepreneurs at heart who love to experiment, build, and create. Our employees may work across the different streams of our businesses with their main focus on Onova.

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About Onova

Onova is a remote-first innovation consultancy focused on three areas of expertise:‍(1) Building a sustainable pipeline of employee-generated product ideas(2) Reducing the process and time from product concept to market(3) Scaling a strong culture of innovation and hands-on technical learning across thousands of employeesWe accomplish this by executing custom high-impact Innovation Sprints to drive tangible products for clients. We ensure the right challenges are defined and matched with the appropriate sponsors. We provide the necessary facilitation, tools, and environment that is conducive to building creative and innovative solutions. As part of our process in education and product innovation, we provide our clients and their employees with the latest design thinking, design sprint, and lean startup processes and methodologies.

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High-Level Role and Responsibilities

As an early employee at a startup consultancy, you will have a lot of responsibility and ownership over key client projects, and the opportunity to significantly impact various parts of our business. We're looking for someone who can hit the ground running and bring industry knowledge and expertise to improve the way we work internally and with our clients.‍We hold ourselves to the highest standards of being "project-obsessed" to ensure our client engagements not only run smoothly but extremely successfully. Our client projects are some of the most visible in the company across the world and our business sponsors are typically C-Suite level global leaders. Our sole mission is to help them innovate internally and drive rapid cultural change in embracing intrapreneurship and bottom-up innovation.

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Client Project Responsibilities

‍‍- Project management and support on large-scale, global innovation efforts for Fortune 500 clients- Capturing client notes and documenting project deliverables- Conducting research relevant for client projects- Support and oversee teams of 10-50 people per project to ensure tasks are completed and deadlines are met across a wide array of work streams, including marketing, design, logistics, partnerships, operations, finance- Build presentation decks and facilitate client meetings/workshops- Manage technology partner relationships on client projects with companies such as Google, AWS, and Microsoft- Identify and research key startups to introduce to our clients

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Internal Responsibilities

‍- Support our sister companies (Inoki Bathhouse and Winning Together Fund)- Lead internal projects (research papers, newsletter, etc.)- Work directly with the co-founders to implement and test new strategies to grow other business functions (client services, marketing, business development, partnerships, etc.)

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Success Factors

Are highly detail-oriented: Our client projects have large project management components so we need people who are highly detail-oriented, on top of things, and organized.‍

Have a personal growth mindset: Working in a startup is different compared to working at a large company. At a startup, your personal impact is significant so you need to wear many hats and constantly looking for ways to improve.

‍Have the "startup hustle": A startup environment can be quite ambiguous and fluid, which is why we need people who are self-sufficient, capable, and resilient. Our working hours are not a standard 9-5, we need to be responsive to one another during client projects at all odd hours and take ownership of our projects.‍

Thrive in a leadership role and enjoy taking ownership: You have taken on leadership roles in the past and have grown comfortable in front of a team as well as taking ownership and working independently.‍

Are receptive to feedback and excellent communication skills: Whether it's receiving feedback, presenting in front of an audience, drafting a research paper, or simply writing an e-mail, you're a natural communicator.

‍Are team-oriented and collaborative: Naturally, this is critical for a startup like ours. It's important that everyone feels supported and encouraged to do their best work, but they also are able to support one another proactively.‍

Enjoy being creative and think outside the box: We are an innovation consultancy that needs creative thinkers. If you enjoy learning and growing in diverse subject areas and constantly thinking into the future, you'll be a great fit.

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Requirements

1. A bachelor's degree in Business or a relevant field
2. Up to 2 years’ experience in a relevant industry with a successful track record in consulting, research, strategy, marketing, or product

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Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Note that you will need to submit a 1-minute video as part of your application.

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