Software and Controls Product Management Leader

Role overview Lead the strategy and lifecycle of a portfolio spanning industrial software, control systems, digital platforms, upgrades, and related services. The role connects customer needs and market opportunities with product investment choices, engineering delivery, commercial goals, and long-term product performance across a global, cross-functional organization.

Responsibilities - Set a clear portfolio vision and make choices about where to invest, differentiate, simplify, partner, or discontinue. - Govern an integrated roadmap that balances customer priorities, technology direction, commercial potential, engineering capacity, product cost, quality, and lifecycle needs. - Gather customer insight through councils and teams in sales, service, and regional markets; translate it into requirements and measurable outcomes. - Work with an innovation team to test concepts and move promising ideas through prototypes, pilots, partnerships, or into the core portfolio, with clear handoffs and success measures. - Guide products from concept through launch and ongoing improvement, using decision gates and measures for adoption, delivery, quality, reliability, safety, and cybersecurity. - Improve portfolio economics and commercial performance through simpler configurations, cost and margin goals, stronger customer value propositions, and opportunities for recurring revenue and partnerships. - Build product management practices, clarify roles, develop talent, and establish reviews and accountability across the organization.

Requirements - Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, business, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred. - Significant product management and leadership experience in industrial software, controls, automation, energy, or a related technology market. - Record of leading complex portfolios from strategy through commercialization and lifecycle management. - Experience influencing senior technical, commercial, operational, and customer stakeholders in global, matrixed organizations. - Strong communication, financial, analytical, and decision-making skills, including the ability to turn complex inputs into clear priorities. - Customer-centered leadership, commercial judgment, and the ability to develop teams and build alignment.

Nice to have - Familiarity with the practical uses of AI, software platforms, data, and connected control systems. - Experience moving early-stage concepts into validated products and scaled adoption, and knowledge of pricing, margin, lifecycle economics, and recurring revenue.

Benefits and work setup - Remote position; relocation assistance is not provided. - U.S. applicants are listed with a base pay range of $248,000–$372,000, with discretionary annual bonus eligibility. Compensation may depend on experience, education, skills, and other factors. - Listed benefits include health coverage, retirement savings contributions, paid holidays and time off, parental and adoption assistance, tuition assistance, and disability and life insurance.