Director, Mission Discovery – Incubation

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⛰️ Colorado – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

💵 $97.3k - $126.5k / year

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Young Life

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1941

💼 Consulting

✈️ Travel

🤲 Charity

Consulting • Travel • Charity

Young Life is a global Christian mission organization dedicated to introducing adolescents to Jesus Christ and helping them to grow in their faith. The organization focuses on building personal relationships with young people and providing fun, adventurous, life-changing experiences. Its mission involves working in communities alongside like-minded adults, including volunteer leaders and staff, to engage with and support youth. Young Life also emphasizes the importance of authentic friendships and creating spaces where young people feel loved and accepted, regardless of their background.

📋 Description

• Define the strategy, operating model, roadmap, investment criteria, and priorities for Mission Discovery & Incubation • Establish entry, evidence, governance, transition, and stopping criteria for innovation work • Shift product conversations toward mission constraints, participant outcomes, evidence, and durable capability • Translate mission constraints into high-value opportunities through participant research, journey analysis, service signals, organizational learning, and cross-functional discovery • Recommend whether opportunities proceed to incubation, remain in discovery, transfer, defer, or stop • Lead experiments, prototypes, pilots, and operating-model tests to reduce material uncertainty • Define hypotheses, learning agendas, success criteria, risk boundaries, decision dates, and accountable owners • Use approved AI capabilities in research, synthesis, prototyping, experimentation, localization, and pattern detection while preserving privacy, safety, evidence quality, and human judgment • Prevent unsupported prototypes from becoming production systems or permanent commitments without approval, ownership, and readiness • Evaluate opportunities using participant evidence, mission value, technical feasibility, global applicability, trust and safety, operational readiness, cost, adoption requirements, and stewardship • Produce written recommendations to scale, transfer, continue learning, redesign, defer, consolidate, or stop • Define capability ownership, operating model, funding, service model, and transition path before production dependency • Convert discoveries, experiments, failures, participant feedback, and service demand into reusable organizational knowledge • Maintain decision records, evidence, assumptions, risks, and learning • Retire experiments, tools, and pathways that do not justify continued investment • Partner across GMET (Global Mission Enablement & Technology) • Recruit, develop, and lead Product Managers, researchers, designers, strategists, and other practitioners • Build mechanisms and leadership capability that reduce dependence on individual heroics

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college, preferably in a job related major field of study • Minimum ten (10) years of experience in Product Management, Product Strategy, Innovation, Research, Human-Centered Design, Service Design, or multidisciplinary product leadership, or equivalent evidence of sustained scope and impact • Experience leading and managing complex initiatives or programs with outcome-focused deliverables • Equivalent combination of education and experience accepted • Minimum three (3) years of managerial experience leading Product Managers, researchers, designers, strategists, or multidisciplinary teams • Demonstrated success leading discovery, experimentation, incubation, new-product strategy, operating-model validation, or strategic investment work • Strong understanding of modern Product Management, participant research, experimentation, service design, analytics, adoption, organizational change, and responsible AI-enabled product practices • Ability to create clarity from ambiguity and translate evidence into strategy, investment recommendations, and executable transition paths • Exceptional written communication, facilitation, storytelling, executive communication, and strategic judgment • Must profess belief in Jesus Christ as personal Savior and Lord • Must subscribe to Young Life’s Statement of Faith and required staff policies • Must be ready, willing, and able to fulfill required ministry functions • Must abide by Young Life policies and practices, including those related to religious belief or ministry activities

🏖️ Benefits

• Use of approved AI capabilities to accelerate research, synthesis, prototyping, experimentation, localization, and pattern detection • Full-time employment