Innovation Lead

Why this role exists

The Innovation Lead helps turn early messy ideas into clear opportunities worth investing in. You lead incubators end to end framing the right problems designing learningled experiments and helping teams move forward with confidence and pace.

This role blends usercentred design product thinking facilitation and experimentation. You guide crossfunctional teams through ambiguity generate insight quickly and turn learning into clear recommendations and next steps.

What youll do

Bring clarity to complexity 

• Turn broad ambiguous challenges into focused problems and learning goals.
• Surface assumptions identify unknowns and define what really needs to be learned.

Lead incubators end to end

• Design and run timeboxed incubators with clear purpose flow and outcomes.
• Ensure fast learning useful insight and tangible outputs.

Design for learning not perfection

• Create proportionate experiments tests and discovery activities.
• Make ideas tangible through concepts artefacts or lightweight prototypes at the right fidelity for the stage.

Facilitate progress

• Design and lead workshops and working sessions that align teams and unlock decisions.
• Help groups think clearly challenge thinking and move forward together.

Think in systems

• Balance user needs business goals technical feasibility and operational reality.
• Understand how ideas connect across products experiences and the wider organisation.

Build capability

• Improve how innovation is done by shaping shared tools methods and ways of working.
• Contribute to strong research and design culture of learning critique and collaboration.

Who youll work with

• Product Managers
• Learning Designers
• Researchers
• Interaction Designers
• Engineers
• Innovation Manager & Senior Innovation Researcher
• Wider Product Learning & Innovation partners

What success looks like

• You move teams from uncertainty to clarity and action.
• Incubators you lead produce learning that actually changes decisions.
• Experiments reduce risk and unlock progress quickly.
• Early ideas become clear tangible and testable.
• You handle ambiguous crossfunctional work with confidence and autonomy.
• You improve shared practice not just your own projects.

Qualifications :

Experience were looking for

• Product innovation or design roles focused on earlystage work.
• A track record of moving teams from vague challenges to clear next steps.
• Strong facilitation and workshop design experience.
• Handson experience working with research product design and engineering.
• A portfolio showing early concepts artefacts or prototypes and good judgement about fidelity.
• Curiosity about better tools methods and ways of working.

Skills that matter

• Sound judgement in ambiguity
• Strategic conceptual thinking
• Strong facilitation and group leadership
• Applied discovery and experimentation
• Clear design communication
• Systems thinking
• Crossfunctional influence
• Practical deliveryfocused mindset

Additional Information :

Benefits:

    35 days holidays
    Discretionary Annual Bonus
    Private Medical Insurance/BUPA Menopause Plan
    Income Protection
    Pension Plan
    Health Cash Plan
    Life Assurance
    Electric Car Scheme
    Gym-flex
    Employee Giving
    My Advantage Employee Discounts
    Critical Illness cover
    Employee Assistance Program
    Holiday purchase option
    Flexible working

Everyone is welcome at Insights. Were dedicated to creating a space where you belong that means accepting you for who you are now and supporting you on your journey towards whoever you want to become.

Our colourful solutions help people see themselves and others in a new light and we love encouraging our diverse global community to experience the transformational power of Insights Discovery. Through listening and learning we will continue to foster the connections that matter to build a more inclusive culture.

It is in our nature to nurture. We have developed an organisation which puts care for our people inclusion belonging and wellbeing at the heart of our approach. Were strengthened by a community where we work together to co-create a culture that celebrates difference and welcomes everybody.

We love learning. We want to be better tomorrow than we are today and were up for the journey. Unapologetically human undoubtedly individual. Colourful to our core.

Read more about inclusivity at Insights via the vacancy page on our website: Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time