IT Innovation Associate

Be part of progress

Introduction to the job
You’ll be part of the Innovation and Strategy team within the Office of the CIO (OCIO)—a 50-person powerhouse driving strategic alignment and innovation across ASML’s 4,500-strong IT organization. Together, we deliver high-impact, future-ready solutions that power ASML’s global success.

As IT Innovation Associate you are ready to shape the future of technology and building it. As a bold, forward-thinking IT Innovation Associate you'll help us explore and apply cutting-edge technologies like Gen AI, XR/VR, blockchain, and quantum computing. You'll thrive on experiments, solve complex challenges, and make a real impact, to lead innovation at scale.

Role and responsibilities
As an IT Innovation Associate, you’ll be a catalyst for change—spotting trends, testing ideas, and turning bold concepts into real-world solutions. You’ll work across departments and disciplines to co-create the future of ASML’s digital landscape. Your mission includes:

• Designing and driving innovation roadmaps that align with ASML’s strategic goals
• Leading the full innovation lifecycle—from ideation to proof-of-concept to enterprise scaling
• Scouting and experimenting with emerging technologies to unlock new business value
• Rapidly prototyping and piloting solutions to test feasibility and impact
• Collaborating with business and IT teams to co-develop use cases that matter
• Translating global tech trends into actionable opportunities for ASML
• Organizing hackathons, inspiration sessions, and other innovation-driving events
• Building compelling business cases and storytelling decks to secure buy-in and scale success

Education and experience
To help us tackle the technical challenges we face, you’ll need experience working on High Tech products and with complex processes. As IT Innovation Associate, you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business Administration, Innovation Management, Information Management, or a related technical field
• 3–8 years of experience in IT, innovation, or digital transformation roles
• Proven experience with innovation management, design thinking, prototyping, and agile methodologies

Skills
Working at the cutting edge of tech, you’ll always have new challenges and new problems to solve – and working together is the only way to do that. You won’t work in a silo. Instead, you’ll be part of a creative, dynamic work environment where you’ll collaborate with supportive colleagues. There is always space for creative and unique points of view. You’ll have the flexibility and trust to choose how best to tackle tasks and solve problems.

To thrive in this job, you’ll need the following skills:

• Strong project management and stakeholder engagement capabilities
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate tech into business value
• A proactive, flexible, and solution-oriented mindset;
• Critical thinking with a growth mindset—focused on learning fast, not fearing failure
• A pragmatic approach that balances creativity with structure and efficiency
• Confidence to influence without authority and navigate ambiguity with ease

Diversity and inclusion

ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.

About Us

ASML is a leading supplier of lithography equipment, used by the world’s top chipmakers to print microchips that are increasingly powerful, fast and energy efficient. Working at ASML is inspiring, no matter what field you're in. That’s because we push the boundaries of technology: if it’s moving the world forward, chances are, we’re behind it. In fact, we’re probably a part of the electronic device you’re using right now.

We’re a global team of more than 32,000 people from 122 different nationalities and counting. Headquartered in Europe’s top tech hub, the Brainport Eindhoven region in the Netherlands, our operations are spread across Europe, Asia and the US.