Organization Overview

Tens of millions of people in the U.S. live with chronic financial insecurity, inadequate savings, and no meaningful wealth, with deeply harmful consequences for themselves, their children, families, communities, employers, and the economy.

Black, Latinx, and women-led households disproportionately experience financial insecurity due in large part to longstanding, systemic racism and gender discrimination. Addressing these issues is critical to Commonwealth's work of making wealth possible for all.

For over two decades, Commonwealth's fundamental purpose has remained to create a stronger and more prosperous society where everyone has financial opportunity. Our work has enabled over 2 million people to save nearly $8 billion on a path to greater financial security and wealth. We are now embarking on a new 4-year strategic plan that seeks greater impact and builds on our systems focus to expand workplace benefits, strengthen partnerships with financial institutions and fintech partners, and explore new frontiers like climate and generative AI.

Commonwealth strengthens the financial opportunity and security of financially vulnerable people by discovering ideas, piloting solutions, and driving innovations to scale. We understand broad change requires market players to act. That's why we take a unique approach to collaborate with consumers, the financial services industry, employers, policymakers, and mission-driven organizations. The solutions we build are grounded in real life, based on our deep understanding of people who are financially vulnerable and how businesses can best serve them.

For more than two decades, we have moved employers to prioritize worker financial security, the financial services industry to bring products to market that better serve financially vulnerable people, and policymakers to pass legislation and take action to enable savings and financial security. To learn more about the organization, please visit buildcommonwealth.org.

Diversity of background and perspective are strengths that we value. We are committed to creating a diverse, dedicated, skilled, and collaborative environment, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Commonwealth recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected statuses.

Position Overview

Commonwealth is seeking an Innovation Manager to join our team in a full-time role. As an Innovation Manager, you'll play a key role in helping Commonwealth build and scale innovative financial solutions for Americans working on low- to moderate incomes. You will manage and support multiple initiatives as part of an organization and team passionate about making a positive, scalable impact on people's financial lives.

Responsibilities

• Employ strong project management and interpersonal skills to coordinate the work of colleagues and own your work on project teams

• Conduct desk research and landscape assessments to support employer partnership recruitment

• Manage and support original qualitative and quantitative research, including data analysis, in-depth individual interviews with people living on low- to moderate incomes, focus groups, surveys, and interviews with subject matter experts

• Design and prototype solutions to financial challenges

• Manage and participate in stakeholder meetings; support the development of high-quality slide presentations and the translation of research findings for diverse audiences

• Creatively problem-solve and collaborate with a small, results-oriented team to keep projects on track toward both short-term milestones and long-term strategic objectives

• Contribute to written communication that describes the work and promotes dissemination of innovations

• Contribute to a positive organizational culture through consistent high energy, an appetite for learning, eagerness to support colleagues, and engaged participation on project teams

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Featured

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Expirationdate

2026-10-07 00:00:00

Url

https://impactopportunity.org/job/9213/innovation-manager/

Remote

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Salaryfrom

66000

Salaryto

70000

Companydescription

Commonwealth strengthens the financial opportunity and security of financially vulnerable people by discovering ideas, piloting solutions, and driving innovations to scale. For nearly two decades, Commonwealth has designed effective innovations, products, and policies enabling over a million people to accumulate more than $3 billion in savings.

Commonwealth understands broad changes requires market players to act. That’s why we collaborate with consumers, the financial services industry, employers, policymakers and mission-driven organizations. The solutions we build are grounded in real life, based on our deep understanding of people who are financially vulnerable and how businesses can best serve them. To learn more about the organization, please visit www.buildcommonwealth.org

Companywebsite

www.buildcommonwealth.org

Companylocation

Boston, MA, USA