Innovation Catalyst

Fluke (www.fluke.com) is seeking an Senior Innovation Catalyst to work as a member of our cross-functional Innovation team.

We guide, mentor and work collaboratively with complementary teams across Fluke. Our team applies innovation standard practices and delivers breakthrough solutions that drive balanced growth for Fluke.

You’ll serve as the lynchpin for the Growth Accelerator Journey, a process of immersive VOC, conceptualization and rapid experimentation. Alongside a team of ambitious, successful, curious people, you will play a vital role in building a culture of innovation at Fluke. If you’re motivated by both guiding and rolling up your sleeves and doing innovation work, this is a phenomenal role.

Innovation Catalysts are proactive, adaptable, and collaborative. You must balance a passion and deep understanding of innovation with superior execution and deliver outstanding results.

Qualifications:

Problem solver:

• Think strategically about customers, segments, markets, technology
• Represent complex information simply through frameworks that convey meaning and insight

Clear Communicator and Facilitator:

• Clearly and concisely summarize your own and others’ thinking by synthesizing a variety of data types into key messages or insights
• Mobilize teams around a process and overcome resistance to new thinking/acting

Willingness to learn and grow with a future potential to move or advance into other roles:

• Enthusiastically engage when met with ambiguity
• Display an unceasing curiosity about people and a desire to make the world better for them
• Energetic and creative problem solver, out of the box, always curious, learning and making connections

Key Traits:

• Comfort with Ambiguity: A willingness and interest in spending time in and thriving with deep uncertainty and in environments where there is no clear “right answer”
• Passion for Innovation: A shown interest and desire to participate in innovation through personal study, on-the-job initiative, or other endeavors
• Emotional intelligence and a Teacher's Mentality: Demonstrate an ability to cultivate trust and willingness among colleagues and clients, together with a reputation for high personal integrity
• Optimistic and resilient in the face of rapid change
• Team Focused: mentor efficiently, and smoothly facilitate both the Growth Acceleration team and the teams you work with from our other Operating Companies
• Deliver Results: Be driven with vision and strategy to organize and guide a team, and implement to go above and beyond
• Ambitious Attitude: A proactive outlook that provides the chutzpah needed to overcome barriers, creatively resolve problems, and challenge conventional thinking

Bias for Action: A need for speed; since of urgency to make decisions quickly and to act upon them

You have demonstrable experience and education in the following:

• Previous start up, incubator, innovation lab, growth accelerator
• and/or design and innovation firm experience
• Experience in VOC, Experimentation in a startup setting
• Presence and technical depth to function as mentor/advisor and deliver training across business portfolios and leaders globally
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Anthropology, Psychology, Marketing, Customer Experience, Design Thinking, Engineering

Fortive Corporation Overview

Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.

We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.

We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact. 

At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference. 

At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone. 

At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating. 

Fortive: For you, for us, for growth. 

Ready to move your career forward? Find out more at careers.fortive.com.

Fluke is leading the world in creating software, test tools and technology that will support customers today and in the future. We are a customer-obsessed market leader with a strong reputation for reliability, quality and safety.

A wholly owned subsidiary of Fortive Corporation (www.fortive.com), Fluke is a global corporation headquartered in the greater Seattle area. Driven by the successful Fortive Business System, Fluke offers the passion of a startup with the resources of a Fortune 500 company. We are focused on the growth of our individual employees, teams and the Fluke brand.

We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer

Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process should ask to speak with a Human Resources representative to request an accommodation.

Everett, WA: The salary range for this position is $89,240-$165,600.

This position is also eligible for bonus as part of the total compensation package.

Base pay offered may vary depending on various factors, including, but not limited to: job-related knowledge; skills; experience; and other eligibility factors such as geographic location. The Total Rewards package includes competitive base pay and an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and several programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.