Your New Role
As a Creative Technologist, you will lead technical discovery and innovation for customer-facing solutions. Working closely with product and design teams, you’ll identify high-impact opportunities and rapidly prototype ideas to validate concepts. You’ll act as a thought leader and a technical leading figure within a small, agile team focused on incubating innovation—not building full-scale products.
Key Responsibilities
- Product Discovery: Collaborate with the Customer Innovations team to explore emerging technologies and new ideas.
- Solution Development: Build quick, effective prototypes to address high-priority customer problems.
- Technical Leadership: Guide a growing team, including graduates, and provide strategic technical direction.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Partnering with retail and business banking leads to aligning innovation with business needs.
- Trend-spotting: Stay ahead of emerging tech trends and bring cutting-edge thinking to the team.
What You'll Need to Succeed
- Hands-on technologist with a creative, generalist mindset.
- Strong frontend experience (customer-facing proof-of-concepts)
- Experience in leading tech companies
- Excellent communication skills – able to translate technical concepts into a customer-friendly language.
Team & Culture
- Small, agile team with plans to scale.
- Highly collaborative and innovation-focused.
- Emphasis on communication and culture fit.
- Not building full-scale products – focused on incubating ideas and driving innovation.
Innovation Focus
- Leading GenAI innovation within the bank.
- Exploring new technologies and their application in financial services.
- Acting as a tech lead for the Customer Innovations team.
What you need to do now
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