Product Innovation Lead

About The Role

Join our Electronics Venting team as a Product Innovation Lead, where you'll guide customer-backed product concepts through the full cycle of innovation and new product development. This role focuses on transforming unique technologies into viable products that drive growth and market success. The position is based at our eastern cluster facility with a potential for hybrid work arrangements.

Compensation and Benefits

• Annual salary ranging from $140,000 to $170,000
• Eligibility for a variable pay program for roles over $150,000 based on business performance each fiscal year
• Salary offers consider education, experience, skills, and other qualifications
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage starting from the first day of employment
• Competitive total rewards package including benefits and potential profit-sharing incentives

Key Responsibilities

• Create product concepts based on customer validation that feature unique value propositions and clear paths to commercialization
• Analyze customer, end-user, application, and market data to define product requirements, priorities, and evaluation criteria
• Drive product concepts through the new product development phases such as validation, fit-for-use assessment, and launch readiness
• Develop and present business cases illustrating customer value, competitive stance, commercial viability, assumptions, and associated risks
• Collaborate cross-functionally with teams from Innovation to Sales to advance product initiatives
• Validate product strategies through market research, voice-of-customer feedback, competitive benchmarking, and external review
• Engage with strategic customers, end users, and standard-setting groups to influence product trajectory and adoption
• Clearly communicate product strategies, progress updates, decisions, and potential risks to diverse stakeholders including technical teams and leadership

Mandatory Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, business, or a related technical or commercial discipline
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in global product innovation, development, business development, product management, or application engineering within technology-driven sectors
• Proven ability to translate customer and market insights into structured product requirements and value propositions
• Demonstrated experience in leading new product development milestones including validation and commercialization
• Capacity to evaluate technical feasibility, product performance, fit-for-use, commercial risks, and business trade-offs using data-supported analyses
• Skilled in facilitating cross-functional decision-making among technical, commercial, and leadership audiences
• Effective communication of product strategies and risks through written, verbal, and presentation formats
• Willingness to travel up to 20% internationally and domestically

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in constructing detailed business cases covering market opportunity, customer value, competitive positioning, and revenue forecasts
• Familiarity with structured innovation portfolio or new product development governance frameworks
• Experience in venting, electronics, automotive industries, or similarly demanding performance-critical sectors

Additional Information

We take pride in fostering a work environment that values creativity and capability, offering a comprehensive and competitive total compensation and benefits program to support our employees' well-being and future growth. Our benefits promote choice, flexibility, and include an Associate Stock Ownership Plan and potential profit-sharing opportunities.

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion, welcoming applicants irrespective of race, gender, age, disability status, genetics, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.

Employment is subject to successful drug and background screening. We consider applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable laws.

Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. Visa sponsorship is generally not available unless stated otherwise in the job description.