Lead- Innovation Center

Company Overview:

When it comes to IT solution providers, there are a lot of choices. But when it comes to providers with innovative and differentiating end-to-end service offerings, there’s really only one: Zones – First Choice for IT.TM 

Zones is a Global Solution Provider of end-to-end IT solutions with an unmatched supply chain. Positioned to be the IT partner you need, Zones, a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) in business for over 35 years, specializes in Digital Workplace, Cloud & Data Center, Networking, Security, and Managed/Professional/Staffing services. Operating in more than 120 countries, leveraging a robust portfolio, and utilizing the highest certification levels from key partners, including Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, Lenovo, Adobe, and more, Zones has mastered the science of building digital infrastructures that change the way business does business ensuring whatever they need, they can Consider IT Done. Follow Zones, LLC on Twitter @Zones, and LinkedIn and Facebook.

Position Overview:

You will create and execute a strategy for showcasing Zones Innovation and thought leadership with the following focus areas:

• Work with Practice team to craft service offering technical blueprint.
• Evaluate best fit tools and technologies for identified service offerings.
• Design and build service/point solutions proof of concepts (PoCs) setups in innovation center, leverage partners/internal SA to build the uses cases as per the skills available.
• Conduct demonstrations to internal and external stakeholders.
• Support Practice team to consult and evaluate on new as well on upgrading current service offerings.
• Customers: Show-and-tell use cases, demos and Zones IP. Providing a lab environment for a touch-and-feel experience - disruptive skunk works activities, enable try-and-buy and testing of technologies for customer specific use cases.
• Partners: Showcase Partner solutions and technologies either as a standalone or in combination with Zones IP as well as solutions from other partners
• Employees: Provide technology environments for employees to learn in instructor led or self-learning as well as to build opportunity specific demos

You will work closely with the Practice Heads of the four practices – Digital Workplace, Cloud and Data Center, NextGen Networking and Cyber Security as well as with Sales, Pre-sales, and Marketing to determine how best you can drive each Practice’s growth by leveraging the assets in the Innovation Center. This will include a practice wise:

• Innovation Center catalog: What capabilities, solutions, use cases, demos we should showcase targeted at specific segments and industry verticals.
• Execution plan: How will we integrate the Innovation Center as a core component of our branding, training, sales and ongoing customer engagement processes.

What you’ll do as the (Lead- Innovation Center):

-          Strong technology expertise centered around tools and platform for CMP / Monitoring / ITSM / Generative / AI Data Center and Networking Digital Workplace

-          Healthy balance of solutioning and delivery skills across products and services that will help lead and assimilate inputs from different technically savvy stakeholder groups towards creating a consensus around the strategy and plans. High impact customer presence

 What you will bring to the team:

-          10+ years of experience across solutioning and delivery for IT Infrastructure Solutions and Services provider

-          Hands on Experience in a technology lab/ Customer IT landscape

Zones offers a comprehensive Benefits package.

While we’re committed to providing top-tier solutions, we are just as committed to supporting our own teams. We offer a competitive compensation package where our employees are rewarded based on their performance and recognized for the value they bring to our business. Our employees enjoy a variety of comprehensive benefits, including Medical Insurance Coverage, Group Term Life and Personal Accident Cover to handle the uncertainties of life and a flexible leave policy to balance their work life.

At Zones, work is more than a job – it's an exciting career immersed in an inventive, collaborative culture. If you’re interested in working on the cutting edge of IT innovation, sales, engineering, operations, administration, and more, Zones is the place for you!

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status or on the basis of disability.