About the Role
The Technology Innovation Strategy & Insights Lead is responsible for developing, owning, and operationalizing a cohesive technology strategy narrative across leadership, executive, and Board-level discussions. This role translates technology strategy, modernization and innovation initiatives, and external market insights into clear, executive-ready narratives and materials that drive alignment, trust, and informed leadership decisions. Operating as a strategic partner to technology leaders, the role strengthens how Huntington Technology articulates its direction, progress, and priorities, and helps position Technology as a proactive, forward-thinking organization.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the single enterprise technology innovation and modernization narrative used across executive, ELT, and Board communications
- Create executive-ready materials including strategy decks, roadmaps, narratives, and decision-oriented updates
- Translate complex technology and innovation topics into clear, concise, and compelling communications for senior leaders
- Partner closely with Technology Innovation leadership to shape messaging, framing, and storytelling for key forums and engagements
- Synthesize external market, competitor, and technology signals into actionable insights that inform strategy and leadership discussions
- Establish structured communication rhythms and reusable storytelling patterns to ensure consistency and quality
- Enable One-Technology alignment by equipping leaders with shared language, narratives, and messaging
- Proactively identify gaps, misalignment, or narrative risks and address them through targeted communications
- Support innovation governance and leadership discussions with clear context, framing, and implications to enable objective decision-making
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Strategy, Technology, or a related field
- 4+ years’ experience in strategy consulting or similar developing technology strategy, executive communications, and connecting tech initiatives to business outcomes
- Strong technology fluency, with the ability to understand and articulate modern enterprise technology topics (e.g., platforms, cloud, data, AI, resilience, modernization) at a strategic level
- Experience working in financial services or other highly regulated, large‑scale enterprise environments
- Proven experience developing executive-level communications and strategic narratives for senior leadership audiences
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical and strategic topics into clear, structured, executive‑ready messaging
- Experience partnering with senior leaders (e.g., CIOs, CTO directs, business executives) and influencing without formal authority
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong judgment and attention to detail
- Master’s degree in Business, Strategy, Technology, or a related field
- Experience supporting technology, innovation, digital, or transformation organizations
- Background in enterprise strategy, technology strategy, innovation strategy, or internal strategy functions
- Experience in strategy consulting (e.g., McKinsey, BCG, Bain) or equivalent fast-paced environments in a strategy role
- Experience preparing materials for ELT, Board, or equivalent leadership discussions
- Strong analytical and synthesis skills, with the ability to connect strategy, execution, and outcomes into a cohesive, outcome‑based story
- Experience facilitating leadership discussions and working sessions
Skills
- Technology strategy
- Executive communications
- Connecting tech initiatives to business outcomes
- Technology fluency
- Modern enterprise technology topics (platforms, cloud, data, AI, resilience, modernization)
- Strategic communication
- Strategic narratives
- Market insights
- Leadership communication
- Analytical skills
- Synthesis skills
- Facilitation
Location
- Office
Work Type
- Office
- Flexible work arrangement
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 4+ years’ experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree
- Master’s degree
Salary/Compensations
- 77,000.00 - 154,000.00 USD Annual
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage
- Wellness program
- Life and disability insurance
- Retirement savings plan
- Paid leave programs
- Paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO)
About the Company
- At Huntington, we look out for people. From reinventing banking with game-changing innovations to building an internal culture that creates lifelong bonds, together, we can make people’s lives better. And amazing things happen when we look out for each other. We prove it every day. Whether it’s helping a colleague or collaborating on a new tool that will revolutionize the way people save money, our actions can have a huge impact. Our colleagues look out for people with a Can-Do Attitude, Service Heart and Forward Thinking. Those are our values—simple but powerful. Each of them pushes us do the right thing, to do right by people. Because people are what matter. If that sounds like you, we hope you’ll apply to join our team. If you’d like to learn more about how Huntington looks out for people, visit https://www.huntington.com/lookingout
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