Corporate Venture Builder Product in Amsterdam

Who we are

We’re always looking for new ways to do things faster, better, cheaper. To move out of our comfort zone, even beyond banking, so that we can better serve the needs of customers with solutions that address their challenges.

Empowering people to stay a step ahead in life and business is ING’s purpose and the main driver for ING Labs. We focus on increasing the pace of innovation to serve changing customer needs. The Labs focus on thinking beyond traditional banking to develop new services to take to market.

We will support you in building your initiative by pitching for funding to ING’s Innovation Fund. We tackle the complex and messy process of building solutions by breaking them down into different phases with key validation points. For this we use ING’s innovation methodology, , which builds on Lean Startup, Design Thinking, and Agile. Progress is assessed by the Innovation Fund and you pitch for your proposed next steps to be funded.

You will be working in the ING Labs Amsterdam office and/ or remotely in a very international and dynamic environment.

What you’ll be working on

ZKFlow is an initiative within ING Neo’s innovation labs, with the goal to delivering privacy using advanced cryptographic techniques, such as Zero Knowledge Proofs. We believe that distributed systems, and more traditional centralized ones, have a duty to protect the privacy of their customer’s data. By using new privacy enhancing technologies this is exactly what we look to enable, whilst still providing companies the ability to validate critical information.

The ZKFlow initiative is currently approaching a very exciting point! The program is focused on building out privacy solutions for applications leveraging distributed ledger technology. The role of the Corporate Venture Builder Product, will be to take the project in to the next stage of its product lifecycle, and establish ZKFlow as a profitable proposition.

Role & responsibilities

Your role as Corporate Venture Builder Product will be to productize and operationalize the ZKFlow product.

Specific tasks will include (but not limited to):

• Develop a product vision, strategy and roadmap, working closely with ZKFlow CTO.
• Working cross-functionally to validate the value proposition and requirements for building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
• Work closely with a cross-functional team of engineers, growth experts and service designers to implement your product vision.
• Become a domain expert, deeply understanding the landscape to solve real problems with technology.
• Plan for and execute productizing and operationalizing the product.
• Develop a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and resources and time required to achieve that.
• Define the approach for the business model, pricing, and packaging of the product.
• Building out the ZKFlow ecosystem, for example finding pilots.
• Program management for pilot.
• Partner with our legal team on contracts and patent strategy.
• Work closely with our risk and compliance teams to ensure we meet the risk requirements of ING.
• Be the voice of the team within ING, working with Head of DLT, Head of Labs, Head of ING Neo, and other senior stakeholders.

About you

• You have a successful track record in as a Product Manager, preferably with a mix of startup and established environments

• You have strong experience in scaling tech products (including operationalizing and productizing validated products).
• You have experience with Innovation, Design thinking, Agile, Scrum, Lean or PACE.
• You have knowledge and passion for privacy enhancing technologies and/or blockchain.
• You demonstrate deep customer empathy and a solution-oriented mindset.
• You demonstrate strong cross-functional partnership and stakeholder management skills.
• You are data-focused, ensuring any assumptions are validated.
• You demonstrate strong collaboration and communication skills.
• You are driven whilst remaining respectful, curious and humble.

What we offer you

• To build a start-up within the ING organization, potentially spinning into an existing business of ING.
• Support from dedicated professionals like PACE coaches, service designers, UX/UI and Growth support teams
• Access to key skills and knowledge about products, methods and regulations.
• Fast paced, diverse & exciting work on growing emerging technologies.
• Opportunity to help shape the future direction of ZKFlow.
• An open, informal, fun working environment and with own office space for the initiative.
• Possibility to work remotely during COVID19 until further notice from ING.
• Fantastic colleagues in highly collaborative, cross-functional and multicultural agile teams.
• Working in an equal, inclusive and diverse workplace.
• Exposure to internal and external senior stakeholders.
• Trainings and workshops.
• An initial 3-6 months assignment based on 36h or 40h /week. The assignment’s renewal is dependent on the stage gate success and will be decided after this initial period.

Location

Amsterdam (currently remote)

Interested or want to learn more? 

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