We are seeking an accomplished and visionary Product Management Leader to shape the strategy, development, and commercialization of innovative software, controls, and digital technology solutions. In this senior leadership role, you will oversee an integrated product portfolio encompassing digital platforms, automation, software upgrades, and lifecycle services. You will translate evolving customer needs and market opportunities into a clear product vision, prioritized roadmaps, and measurable business outcomes. Working closely with engineering, sales, services, finance, and innovation teams, you will drive products from early-stage concepts through development, launch, and long-term growth. You will also champion product quality, cybersecurity, reliability, and commercial competitiveness while building a high-performing product management organization. This is an opportunity to influence the future of industrial technology and contribute to the transformation of the global energy landscape.
Product Vision and Portfolio Strategy: Define and communicate a comprehensive product vision and portfolio strategy across software, controls, digital platforms, upgrades, and lifecycle solutions. Establish clear investment priorities and determine where to differentiate, partner, simplify, or discontinue offerings.
Integrated Product Roadmap: Develop and govern a unified product roadmap that aligns customer priorities, technology developments, commercial opportunities, engineering capacity, product costs, quality objectives, and lifecycle requirements.
Customer Insights and Market Intelligence: Leverage Voice of Customer (VOC) programs, customer councils, sales teams, service organizations, and regional stakeholders to understand customer challenges, expectations, and willingness to pay. Translate these insights into actionable product requirements and measurable outcomes.
Innovation and Product Incubation: Partner with innovation and incubation teams to identify emerging opportunities, validate customer problems, test new concepts, and determine which initiatives should progress into minimum viable products (MVPs), pilots, strategic partnerships, or the core product portfolio.
Market and Competitive Analysis: Continuously assess changing customer expectations, competitor offerings, emerging business models, and technological developments in software, artificial intelligence, automation, data, and connected control systems.
Product Competitiveness and Financial Performance: Establish product cost and margin objectives, simplify configurations, reduce unnecessary product variations, and develop migration strategies that improve profitability, quality, customer value, and lifecycle economics.
Product Launch and NPI Excellence: Lead the complete product lifecycle from concept development and MVP validation through pilot programs, industrialization, commercial launch, adoption, and post-launch evaluation. Establish clear decision gates, accountability structures, and measurable success criteria.
Quality and Reliability Management: Integrate quality-by-design principles, First Time Right methodologies, Integrated Quality Plans, cybersecurity, and reliability requirements throughout product definition, development, release, and ongoing support.
Commercial Growth and Partnerships: Collaborate with sales, services, finance, and business development teams to improve sales conversion, strengthen value propositions, expand recurring and multi-year revenue, and identify strategic partnership and growth opportunities.
Product Organization Development: Build and strengthen a modern product management organization by clarifying responsibilities, developing talent, standardizing lifecycle practices, and implementing effective performance metrics and governance processes.
Execution and Performance Improvement: Improve delivery predictability, product quality, speed to market, and overall Say/Do performance while reducing execution risks and accelerating time to customer value.
Cross-Functional Leadership: Align engineering, product, commercial, operational, and financial stakeholders around shared portfolio priorities, strategic objectives, and enterprise-wide business outcomes.