ETS
AVP, Enterprise Innovation
🇺🇸 Princeton, NJ
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Project Management
🗓️ February 12th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
ETS is hiring an Associate Vice President, Enterprise Innovation. This role involves developing and executing an AI-powered innovation strategy to integrate AI capabilities across ETS' products, solutions, and services while collaborating with organizational leaders to drive growth. The AVP will lead a team and report to the Chief Marketing and Innovation Officer, playing a crucial role in maintaining ETS at the forefront of AI innovation and product development.
Highlights
- Responsible for defining and executing an AI-powered Enterprise Innovation strategy.
- Collaborates with marketing and cross-functional teams to integrate AI into product roadmaps.
- Oversees AI capability development for short, mid, and long-term innovation.
- Leads a team of 12-15 people, reporting to the Chief Marketing and Innovation Officer.
- Requires a Master's degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields.
- Requires 10 years of experience in AI, technology, product development & management.
- Experience leading teams in edtech and workforce product design or development.
- Competitive salary and benefits, including PTO for volunteer work.
- Strong communication and leadership skills crucial for interacting with diverse stakeholders.
AVP, Enterprise Innovation Full Description
AVP, Enterprise Innovation
- Job Level : Any
- Level of Education : Masters Degree
- Job Type : Full-Time/Regular
- Date Updated : 01/06/2025
- Years of Experience : Not Applicable
- Will this position have direct reports? : true
Job Description
About ETS:
ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization enabling lifelong learners worldwide to be future-ready. For more than 75 years, we've been advancing the science of measurement to build benchmarks for fair and valid skill assessment across cultures and borders. Our worldwide impact extends through our renowned assessments including TOEFL®, TOEIC®, GRE® and Praxis® tests, serving millions of learners in more than 200 countries and territories. Through strategic acquisitions, we've expanded our global capabilities: PSI strengthens our workforce assessment solutions, while Edusoft, Kira Talent, Pipplet, Vericant, and Wheebox enhance our educational technology and assessment platforms across critical markets worldwide.
Through ETS Research Institute and ETS Solutions, we're partnering with educational institutions, governments, and organizations globally to promote skill proficiency, empower upward mobility, and unlock opportunities for everyone, everywhere. With offices and partners across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, we deliver nearly 50 million tests annually. Join us in our journey of measuring progress to power human progress worldwide.
ETS Is looking for a highly motivated innovation leader to develop and execute an AI powered innovation strategy and coordinate AI initiatives across the enterprise.
The Associate Vice President, Enterprise Innovation is responsible for the development and execution of an Enterprise -wide forward thinking AI strategy. The individual is responsible for the development and integration of AI capabilities that will differentiate ETS’ products, solutions and services moving forward, such as automated personalization, smart recommendations, and skills prediction leveraging multimodal AI.
The AVP is responsible for working with business leaders across the organization to help them understand how they can best integrate AI into their product roadmaps to drive growth. The AVP will also be accountable for a capabilities roadmap that ensures ETS remains on the cutting edge of AI innovation and product development and enables growth in current and new customer markets.
This position reports into the Chief Marketing and Innovation Officer — and will lead a team of 12-15 people.
RESPONSIBILITIES
ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization enabling lifelong learners worldwide to be future-ready. For more than 75 years, we've been advancing the science of measurement to build benchmarks for fair and valid skill assessment across cultures and borders. Our worldwide impact extends through our renowned assessments including TOEFL®, TOEIC®, GRE® and Praxis® tests, serving millions of learners in more than 200 countries and territories. Through strategic acquisitions, we've expanded our global capabilities: PSI strengthens our workforce assessment solutions, while Edusoft, Kira Talent, Pipplet, Vericant, and Wheebox enhance our educational technology and assessment platforms across critical markets worldwide.
Through ETS Research Institute and ETS Solutions, we're partnering with educational institutions, governments, and organizations globally to promote skill proficiency, empower upward mobility, and unlock opportunities for everyone, everywhere. With offices and partners across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, we deliver nearly 50 million tests annually. Join us in our journey of measuring progress to power human progress worldwide.
ETS Is looking for a highly motivated innovation leader to develop and execute an AI powered innovation strategy and coordinate AI initiatives across the enterprise.
The Associate Vice President, Enterprise Innovation is responsible for the development and execution of an Enterprise -wide forward thinking AI strategy. The individual is responsible for the development and integration of AI capabilities that will differentiate ETS’ products, solutions and services moving forward, such as automated personalization, smart recommendations, and skills prediction leveraging multimodal AI.
The AVP is responsible for working with business leaders across the organization to help them understand how they can best integrate AI into their product roadmaps to drive growth. The AVP will also be accountable for a capabilities roadmap that ensures ETS remains on the cutting edge of AI innovation and product development and enables growth in current and new customer markets.
This position reports into the Chief Marketing and Innovation Officer — and will lead a team of 12-15 people.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Defines and executes an Enterprise Innovation strategy powered by AI
- Collaborates with the Marketing Science team to analyze customer needs, technology trends and competitive intelligence to shape the innovation strategies
- Develops and oversees the execution of AI capability development which includes short term integration into existing products, mid-term development aligned to business unit product roadmaps, and long-term groundbreaking AI innovation.
- Integrates with cross-functional product and sales teams and oversees the execution of customer-centric development of blue-sky products and services.
- Coordinates the enterprise-wide AI strategy workstreams with a cross functional team of leaders
- Partners with cross functional leadership to integrate AI innovation into scaled solutions that are commercially viable.
- Acts as a key stakeholder in due diligence of all AI-based merger and acquisition due diligence and is a key stakeholder for post-acquisition optimization of AI capabilities in the product or service.
- Acts as a thought-leader and evangelist for the next generation of AI products and capabilities at ETS.
- Provides leadership, direction, coaching and support to ETS colleagues through training and clear articulation of strategies
- Stays abreast of emerging technology developments, potential edtech and workforce applications, and associated research.
- Adheres to ethical standards and complies with the laws and regulations applicable to the job function
Experience and Skills
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
- Masters in Business Administration, Engineering, Computer Science, or other STEM related fields.
- 10 years of combined experience in the fields of AI, technology, product development & management.
- At least 5 years leading teams working in product design or development in the Edtech and/or workforce space
OTHER SKILLS
- Experience engaging with target market and user segments to understand their needs and aligning solutions with those needs
- Ability to work collaboratively and effectively in agile teams
- Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with cross-divisional stakeholder groups
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrated success setting and executing AI strategy for an enterprise or a business area in edtech or workforce
- Demonstrated success leading multiple teams in agile business and product development from identifying business needs to the development of solutions.
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to work across a complex organizational structure and diverse stakeholders.
- Experience communicating effectively with senior executives to gain understanding and support, while speaking with one voice across the organization
- Demonstrated AI and/or Edtech thought leadership
#LI-RK1
#LI-REMOTE
ETS is mission driven and action oriented
- We are passionate about hiring innovative thinkers who believe in the promise of education and lifelong learning.
- We are energized by cultivating growth, innovation, and continuous transformation for the next generation of rising professionals as leaders. In support of this ETS offers multiple Business Resource Groups (BRG) for you to learn and advance your career growth!
- As a not-for-profit organization we will encourage you to lean in to your passion for volunteering. At ETS you may qualify for up to an additional 8 hours of PTO for volunteer work on causes that are important to you!
ETS is an employer comprised of people with different experiences, strengths, and backgrounds who share a passion for advancing quality and accessibility in education. We are dedicated to building teams that capitalize on the various backgrounds and experiences of those we serve. The Talent Acquisition team strives to ensure candidates enjoy a fair hiring process. We believe our differences empower us to be a better team, making better decisions and delivering better results.
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