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Director, AI Innovation & Emerging Capabilities

CSL • Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Posted June 11, 2026

Location Melbourne, Victoria
Job Type Full time
Category Top Executives
Posted June 11, 2026

The Opportunity:

  • The Director, AI Innovation & Emerging Capabilities leads the scouting, introduction, and scaling of AI and disruptive digital technologies across R&D.

  • This role serves as the function's primary horizon scanner and innovation translator, converting external signals into concrete R&D opportunities and building structured pathways from early-stage pilots to scaled capabilities.

  • The Director operates with a future-back mindset, ensuring the organization is not caught off-guard by technological disruption but instead positioned to capitalize on it.

    • The Role:

  • Continuously monitor the external AI and disruptive technology landscape to identify signals, trends, and emerging capabilities with potential R&D relevance

  • Maintain a living map of the external innovation environment including academia, startups, vendors, and adjacent industries

  • Apply a future-back approach: d...

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