The Research IT Innovation Co-Op, under the direction of the Company's IT Innovation Team, will be responsible for executing projects to evaluate and apply innovative new technology to unmet Company Research Laboratory needs.

He/She will contribute to business analysis, technology sensing and selection initiatives, execution of agile experiments to test technologies in priority business contexts, and will be expected to emphasize wide dissemination of knowledge gained during project activity.

Job Description:

• Perform business analysis and technology evaluation to identify and select promising technologies to apply to unmet business needs

• Design agile experiments to test new information technologies to develop empirical evidence that demonstrates value of those technologies in the context of the Company

• Plan and execute experiments which pilot the application of promising new technologies to yield positive impact on Company business outcomes, in collaboration with technology vendors, academic institutions, or other external research talent

• Ensure that knowledge of the capability of the new technology is captured for wider use by populating an Innovation Repository with appropriate information and dissemination of that information through whitepapers, journal articles, and other presentations. 

• Aptitude for and interest in working with cutting-edge information technologies that have the potential to positively impact product discovery and development
• Demonstrated business analysis, application development, and project management skills a plus
• Flexible mindset essential, including openness to anything which enables unmet Company Research needs and demonstrated hypothesis-based methodology for decisions with an engineering/metric-strong approach to technology evaluation
• Good interpersonal skills
• Proficient oral and written communications skills
• Desire to work in a team environment; ability to adapt to new technologies, business (situations)
• Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing work environment, and ability to solve problems by creative application of new and existing technology.