AreaX is the Corporate & Investment Bank’s accelerator & incubator program, responsible for infusing innovation and driving new product creation. We work with business leadership to assess the business and technology potential of emerging, innovative products, help define forward-looking digital strategies, and lead a range of implementation methods to accelerate modernization and unlock new commercial opportunities using a client centric approach.
A finance background is not a must-have – just the curiosity and passion to solve complex problems. If you are excited to make a difference and want to transform how teams collaborate, we'd love to speak with you.
The mission of AreaX Business Agility is to help service owners and their partners resolve pain points in how change is delivered by guiding their transformation of people, processes and methods. We help teams adopt creative approaches to problem solving through product thinking, business architecture, rigorous problem definition, ideation, design, prototyping and client-centric agility.
As a Business Agility Coach, you will be a trusted advisor to senior Product Owners, challenging ways of thinking and pushing the boundaries of what is possible in order to provide clients with creative solutions that support them in a rapidly evolving landscape.
You will need to quickly understand existing processes and spot improvement opportunities as you assist in the creation of a compelling transformation strategy. This is a very hands-on role with the opportunity to coach and mentor across a variety of transformation exercises.
In this role, you will:
- Build strong relationships with Product Owners, ensuring trust and mutual respect
- Work with cross-functional groups to design an optimum target operating model
- Assist in breaking down organisational barriers by collaborating with leaders of functional silos
- Support the development of a structured business architecture that clearly articulates the business process and serves to facilitate a common understanding
- Partner with Service Design specialists to adopt the use of journey maps and other Design Thinking practices to better understand the needs of clients and users
- Co-create the vision of improved service delivery through technology
- Research and apply cross-industry innovative digital solutions to problems
- Be the catalyst for innovative solution designs in collaboration with the business
- Identify the right approaches and technologies to solve the problems
- Introduce Agile practices to foster greater transparency and accelerate the delivery of value
- Coach teams in the adoption of new measures that represent the complete health of their product
- Understand cultural inhibitors and to advise on how to address them
- Keep stakeholders and senior managers informed on delivery progress, blockers and present decision points to drive debate.
Basic Qualifications
- Experience of team management, coaching and developing individuals
- Experience applying Agile and Lean methodologies to improve delivery within cross-functional teams
- Excellent analytical and logical thinking to understand and analyse complex business processes
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills, detail oriented and strong interpersonal skills
- Proven success at driving change across multiple groups
- Experience with end-to-end software product delivery
- Experience overseeing a roadmap strategy and definition
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Entrepreneurial spirit & ability to wear many hats with minimal direction
- Strong bias for data-driven decision-making
- Quick decision-making abilities demonstrating bias for action under tight timing and pressure
- Demonstrated user obsession
- You are intellectually curious, see things differently, and challenge the status quo; you are not afraid to ask questions
- You have the ability to navigate a matrixed organization and the ability to influence peers by articulating the product offering and value to business partners
- Strong grasp of user-centred design and business architecture methodologies
Our Corporate & Investment Bank relies on innovators like you to build and maintain the technology that helps us safely service the world’s important corporations, governments and institutions. You’ll develop solutions for a bank entrusted with holding $18 trillion of assets and $393 billion in deposits. The Corporate & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk, and extends liquidity in markets spanning over 100 countries around the world.
When you work at JPMorgan Chase & Co., you’re not just working at a global financial institution. You’re an integral part of one of the world’s biggest tech organizations. In our global technology centers, our team of 50,000 technologists design, build and deploy everything from enterprise technology initiatives to big data and mobile solutions, as well as innovations in electronic payments, cybersecurity, machine learning, and cloud development. Our $11B annual investment in technology enables us to hire people to create innovative solutions that are transforming the financial services industry.
At JPMorgan Chase & Co. we value the unique skills of every employee, and we’re building a technology organization that thrives on diversity. We encourage professional growth and career development, and offer competitive benefits and compensation. If you’re looking to build your career as part of a global technology team tackling big challenges that impact the lives of people and companies all around the world, we want to meet you.