Innovation Program Lead

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Position Title

Innovation Program Lead

Position Location

Remote - work virtually from anywhere in the United States

Job Summary

The QC EcoSystem's Innovation Program gives employees a visible, supported path for turning practical innovative ideas into better tools, workflows, programs, and potential service offerings. ai2io manages the program on the EcoSystem's behalf, helping contributors develop promising concepts, recognizing valuable contributions, and guiding solutions toward the right level of support and adoption.

As Innovation Program Lead, you will own the health, direction, and outcomes of the full innovation portfolio. You will evaluate submissions, investigate promising concepts, run the program's recurring forums, and take part in decisions to advance, redirect, pause, consolidate, or respectfully decline ideas. Just as importantly, you will help innovators find the right path forward, encouraging ideas to come into the open early so they can benefit from technical guidance, organizational visibility, and alignment with existing tools and priorities.

The role requires strong/broad AEC and Revit knowledge, sound technical judgment, and the ability to see across affiliate companies. You will identify duplicate or overlapping efforts, recognize when grassroots solutions show broader value, and coordinate the path from local concept or prototype toward a scalable, maintainable, formally supported enterprise solution. You will work closely with the Operations & Innovation Program Specialist, as well as software engineering, product, operations, and business stakeholders, while operating with a high degree of independence.

Essential Functions

Own the Program's Daily Operations

Own the end-to-end idea intake and scoring workflow, applying a consistent evaluation rubric to assess technical feasibility, AEC/MEP relevance, business value, effort, strategic fit, and potential for broader adoption.

Maintain a prioritized, accurate portfolio of submissions, investigations, proofs of concept, active development efforts, awards, adoption decisions, and closed items.

Make and document clear disposition decisions for each submission, including advancing, redirecting, pausing, consolidating, returning for clarification, or respectfully declining an idea.

Lead, and facilitate recurring Innovation meetings, setting agendas, driving decisions, documenting outcomes, and ensuring action items move forward.

Partner closely with the Operations & Innovation Program Specialist to keep intake records, scoring documentation, metrics, meeting logistics, communications, awards, and portfolio tracking current and accurate.

Administer the award workflow in coordination with the appropriate internal partners, tracking approvals and status through completion.

Evaluate AEC and Revit Ideas

Use hands-on Revit and AEC experience to assess ideas involving MEP design workflows, families, templates, shared parameters, add-ins, automation concepts, and related design-technology practices.

Conduct structured investigation meetings with submitters to understand the problem, current workflow, proposed approach, intended users, dependencies, and expected value.

Determine whether a concept is technically credible, duplicates an existing capability, overlaps work already underway, or requires evaluation by another technical specialist.

Engage software engineering, product, AI, automation, data, or other subject-matter experts when a submission exceeds the role's technical depth, and incorporate their findings into a clear recommendation.

Translate submitter input and technical assessments into concise, decision-ready recommendations for committee or leadership review.