At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead AI-driven growth strategies and innovate business models across APAC.
- Company: Join Avanade Next, a leader in tech innovation and growth.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, travel opportunities, and professional development.
- Other info: Dynamic role with significant career advancement potential.
- Why this job: Shape the future of AI and drive impactful ventures.
- Qualifications: 10+ years in strategy consulting or venture building required.
The predicted salary is between 149670 - 182930 $ per year.
The senior growth and business model innovation lead for Avanade Next.
Helps clients identify where AI can create new revenue, new services, new products or new market positions, then turns those ideas into funded, tested and scalable ventures.
Key Responsibilities
- Growth Strategy & Market Creation
- Own the Business & Growth Models domain across APAC.
- Lead AI-enabled growth strategies, venture concepts and scalable business model options.
- Build Avanade Next market credibility on AI-enabled growth and commercial innovation, with Microsoft and the wider ecosystem as well as with clients.
- Executive Advisory & Business Growth
- Advise Boards and executive teams on growth options, disruption risks and investment choices.
- Originate and shape mandates where new revenue, new propositions or business model change are the primary agenda.
- Partner with Industry Leads, Account Teams and Microsoft to convert growth opportunities into signed work, using co-sell where new propositions are built on Microsoft platforms.
- Commercialisation & Delivery
- Take clients from opportunity identification to a costed business model, commercial pathway and working prototype.
- Design platform, ecosystem, subscription and agent-enabled models with a credible route to adoption and revenue.
- Partner with Value Architects and FDEs to test economics and prove the model before major investment.
- Capability & Practice Development
- Build domain capability across the consulting bench and shared pool through hiring, mentoring and leadership.
- Contribute growth plays, financial models and venture patterns to the APAC library.
- Help the wider Avanade Next team recognise when growth, rather than efficiency, is the real client agenda.
- KEY MEASURES
- Domain method active across APAC within the first two quarters.
- 3 to 5 active mandates with a growth or business model workstream.
- New business model opportunities progressing to pilot, launch or funded scale-up.
- Direct contribution to qualified pipeline and signed transformation revenue.
- Reusable growth patterns and commercial models added to the APAC library.
Qualifications
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- 10+ years in strategy consulting, corporate strategy, venture building, product leadership or commercial innovation.
- Track record taking a new business, product or service model from concept to revenue.
- Strong commercial and financial modelling capability under uncertainty.
- Practical understanding of what agentic AI makes newly possible and what it does not.
- Comfortable working with engineers to prototype rather than only describe an idea.
- WAYS OF WORKING
- Based in SEA with APAC-wide deployment and regular regional travel.
- Commercially disciplined: every idea needs a customer, economic case and path to scale.
- Prototypes early because an untested business model is still a hypothesis.
- Works in small senior teams supported by agents and specialists.
- Balances ambition with adoption and execution reality.
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AI-Driven Growth Architect for New Ventures in Melbourne employer: Avanade
Avanade is an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture, where you can lead transformative data projects for top-tier clients in Australia. With a strong focus on employee growth, you will have access to continuous learning opportunities and mentorship, ensuring your skills are always at the forefront of technology. The company also values work-life balance and offers competitive benefits, making it a rewarding place to build your career in data architecture.
We think you need these skills to ace AI-Driven Growth Architect for New Ventures in Melbourne
Growth Strategy Development
Business Model Innovation
AI-Enabled Growth Strategies
Market Creation
Executive Advisory
Commercialisation
Financial Modelling
