Chief Innovation Officer

About AVERQION

AVERQION works across institutional trading, digital assets, financial technology, and market infrastructure. Our teams bring together market expertise, technical judgment, and disciplined execution.

About the Role

The Chief Innovation Officer will identify opportunities across digital assets and financial market infrastructure and turn promising ideas into scoped initiatives. The role combines market judgment with structured testing and clear investment decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Define an innovation agenda aligned with AVERQION’s business priorities and risk appetite.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, partnership opportunities, and market developments.
• Design pilots with clear hypotheses, milestones, and criteria for continuing or stopping.
• Bring engineering, commercial, and risk teams together to assess feasibility and operational impact.
• Present pilot results and recommendations to leadership and support handoffs into delivery.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience in innovation, product strategy, venture development, or strategic initiatives.
• Experience moving an initiative from research and validation through pilot delivery.
• Ability to assess commercial potential, technical feasibility, and operational risk.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with blockchain infrastructure, institutional trading, or market structure.
• Experience evaluating external partnerships or building internal innovation programs.

Why Join AVERQION

Help shape how AVERQION builds its capabilities across digital markets. Work with colleagues across disciplines, contribute to decisions that affect the business, and take responsibility for bringing ideas into practice.