Incubation Hub Lead: AI-Driven Service Innovation

Schneider Electric; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 142,000 - 214,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Paid time off

401(k) with match

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

Schneider Electric’s Services Incubation Hub is building the next generation of energy services, combining AI-native offers and software-defined infrastructure. You will own incubations end to end, prioritize bets in real time, and lead cross-functional teams from prototyping to scale with customers, backed by data and a startup-like culture.

You’ll champion entrepreneurial thinking, balance technical curiosity with business discipline, and keep customer value at the heart of every decision,

Qualifications

• Full professional English required; French an asset.

Responsibilities

• Own a portfolio of 4 to 7 incubations end to end within your segment, from early idea through customer validation to league handshake.
• Continuously prioritize the portfolio, deciding in real time which bets to advance, pause or drop
• Juggle multiple incubations concurrently at different stages, without losing momentum on any of them
• Bring an entrepreneurial mindset and a genuine love of technology to every bet, staying close to the tools, data and architecture behind each incubation
• Balance technical curiosity with business discipline, keeping the customer and the commercial case at the center of every technically interesting idea
• Keep the customer at the center of every incubation, testing real problems with real customers before committing further investment
• Translate customer signals into decisions: what to build next, what to test, what to kill
• Meet obstacles with creativity and agility
• Fight for the ideas that deserve investment, building the evidence and the narrative needed to keep a promising bet alive
• Draw on the Hub’s transverse capabilities to move each incubation faster
• Own the relationship with the receiving League for each incubation, preparing and leading the handshake when a bet is ready to scale
• Deep understanding of the segment’s customers, market and technology

Skills

Full professional English

French an asset

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in a relevant technical or business field

Job description

Schneider Electric’s Services Incubation Hub is building the next generation of energy services, combining AI-native offers and software-defined infrastructure. You will own incubations end to end, prioritize bets in real time, and lead cross-functional teams from prototyping to scale with customers, backed by data and a startup-like culture.

You’ll champion entrepreneurial thinking, balance technical curiosity with business discipline, and keep customer value at the heart of every decision,