Td Invent

**Role Type**:
**Work Term**:
**Work Location**:
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

**Hours**:
37.5

**Pay Details**:
**WANT TO SHAPE THE FUTURE OF BANKING?**

Have you ever wondered how North America’s most successful companies develop some of their most innovative ideas? If so, consider exploring TD Invent, the bank's enterprise approach to innovation, creating the products and services of the future.

TD Invent is our approach to transforming experiences for customers, colleagues, and the communities we operate in. Behind TD Invent is a community of innovators, patent filers, designers, researchers, developers, and partners who come together to build today's solutions with tomorrow's mindset. TD Invent will introduce you to areas and topics that may make you rethink what it's like to work in financial services.

**DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW
**Within TD Invent is the TD Enterprise Innovation team where our highly collaborative pods of Product Owners, Designers and Developers work together to ideate, explore, and validate innovative solutions that will change the way the bank thinks about its customers - one sprint at a time. Make your mark in a setting where every day operates like a well-funded start-up, while helping TD shape the future of banking.

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

Co-op and Internship opportunities allow you to gain valuable work experience across a number of the businesses at TD. You will work with experienced colleagues, receive world class training, and be part of a community of students across TD, where you will have an impact, grow as individual and experience our culture of care.

Our **Co-op/Intern Programming **is offered with select Co-op and Internship roles and is designed to help you better understand the TD business, build on critical career capabilities, and broaden your professional network. This program is designed to complement your on-the job experience and features:

- Leadership talks with key Leaders from across the organization
- Lunch and Learns on topics such as Innovation, Diversity & Inclusion, Personal Branding and so much more.

As an Innovation Analyst Intern/Co-op within Enterprise Innovation, which includes TD Lab, explore emerging technologies and work with pods to explore concepts and test with users how we might improve customer experiences.
- Focusing on the right thing through research, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers
- Answering critical business questions using TD's Innovation Framework, which incorporates Design Thinking and Agile methodologies
- Sharing research insights with teams eager to learn about Enterprise Innovation projects and our competitive landscape
- Working with pod members to rapidly develop a product vision board into a functional prototype (for web and/or mobile)
- Investigating the potential of emerging and enabling technologies (e.g., gen AI, big data, platform features)
- Refining presentation skills by pitching sprint demos, concepts and apps to business partners and executives

If you are a self-starter, this job is for you

**JOB REQUIREMENTS**

**Key skills and assets include**:

- Must be enrolled in an undergraduate degree as of the start of the work term, with the intent of returning to school to complete outstanding degree requirements
- Work independently with mínimal supervision, establish priorities, and add value by helping drive each initiative, project, or team you are assigned to.
- Develop technical requirements through business requirement gathering techniques to understand scope, functional & non-functional relationships, dependencies, risks, and facilitate the communication between business and technology areas
- Assume an "ownership" role, on behalf of customer ensuring deliverables meet end-user requirements
- Build and maintain positive working relationships by effectively communicating and sharing knowledge with your team, peers in the program, and your TD business partners

**Additional skills include being**:

- Creative, innovative and demonstrating a high degree of research skills - someone who actively consumes significant amounts of content from multiple sources, finds corroborating sources, dissects important details, and filters out misinformation, and applies what they find to their work
- Stimulated by the digital world, and current with leading-edge digital technologies and trends that support product strategy and development
- A conceptual thinker with proven analytical and problem-solving skills - ready to take on challenges
- On track to complete Undergraduate degree in Business Administration, Business Technology Management, Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or Technology Sciences
- Excellent in verbal & written communication with an ability to work effectively in a team environment
- Able to develop good business relationships with customers, business partners and stakeholders

**ADDITIONAL INFORMATION**
- This posting has **two available positions.**:

- Applications must include a transcript